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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Lambda Cloud (D)\n\nGood for: Agents or pipelines that need a whole GPU machine with SSH for hours, such as training or batch jobs, and will manage the lifecycle themselves.\n\nWatch for: No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated\n\n### Nebius AI Cloud (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 57 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 69\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 63\n- Security \u0026 auth, 81 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 5\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Cheaper for compute gpu, $1.35 against $9.86 per GPU-hour\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Status page lists 14 incidents marked major between 14 July and 8 October 2026, including about 21 hours of partial degradation in us-central1 on 19 August\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lambda Cloud | Nebius AI Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 57 | Nebius AI Cloud +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 78 | Nebius AI Cloud +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 77 | Nebius AI Cloud +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 81 | Nebius AI Cloud +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 5 | 82 | Nebius AI Cloud +77 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 77 | Nebius AI Cloud +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50 · D** | **67.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lambda Cloud | Nebius AI Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Lambda | Nebius |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.nebius.cloud` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for compute gpu | $9.86 per GPU-hour | $1.35 per GPU-hour |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | none | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-01 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Lambda Cloud.** H100 SXM at $3.99 and B200 at $6.69 an hour with per-minute billing. No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated.\n\n**Nebius AI Cloud.** One API definition generates the REST and gRPC interfaces, the CLI, Terraform provider and three SDKs, with a 602-operation OpenAPI document, `X-Idempotency-Key` and role-scoped service accounts. The status page lists 14 major incidents between 14 July and 8 October 2026, no request rate limits were found, and signup needs a browser and a card.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Lambda Cloud\n\n1. Call `GET /instance-types` first and read `regions_with_capacity_available` before trying to launch\n2. Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with `global/rate-limited`\n3. Branch on the error `code`, not the `message` or `suggestion`, which Lambda says may change\n4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine\n5. Terminate the instance in a `finally` block; billing runs by the minute until you do\n\n### Nebius AI Cloud\n\n1. Use a service account with an authorised key, then exchange a five-minute RS256 JWT at `https://auth.eu.nebius.com/oauth2/token/exchange` for a 12-hour Bearer token\n2. Send `X-Idempotency-Key` with a random UUID on every create, update and delete, since a 504 can follow a call that succeeded\n3. Poll the returned operation (`/ai/v1/endpoints/operations/{id}`) until `status` is set; concurrent operations on one resource are not supported\n4. Stop or delete endpoints when idle. A stopped endpoint bills nothing, a stopped Devlab or VM still bills for its disk\n5. Check region support first. Serverless AI is absent from `eu-south1` and `us-north1`, and each GPU platform exists in one to four regions\n6. Run the beta `nebius/mcp-server` with safe mode on (the default); `nebius_cli_execute` can run any CLI command when `SAFE_MODE=false`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Lambda Cloud or Nebius AI Cloud?\n\nNebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 50 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Which is cheaper for compute gpu, Lambda Cloud or Nebius AI Cloud?\n\nNebius AI Cloud, at $1.35 per GPU-hour against $9.86 per GPU-hour for Lambda Cloud. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Do Lambda Cloud and Nebius AI Cloud need an API key?\n\nLambda Cloud needs an API key. Nebius AI Cloud takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Lambda Cloud and Nebius AI Cloud without installing anything?\n\nYes. Lambda Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1 and Nebius AI Cloud at https://api.nebius.cloud.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lambda\", \"b\": \"nebius-ai-cloud\"}`. 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