# Lambda Cloud vs Together GPU Clusters (slim)

> Together GPU Clusters scores 58.1 (C) to Lambda Cloud's 52.9 (D) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Together GPU Clusters scores 58.1 (C) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 52.9 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lambda Cloud leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do gpu compute.

- Lambda Cloud: D 52.9, rank #963 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.min.md
- Together GPU Clusters: C 58.1, rank #764 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/together-gpu-clusters.min.md
- Lambda Cloud, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 38; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 55.
- Together GPU Clusters, good for Training, fine-tuning and batch jobs that need several 8-GPU nodes with InfiniBand, run by a pipeline that creates and deletes clusters. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 92 against 69; Maintenance & community, 75 against 5; Transparency & trust, 65 against 60.

| Category | Lambda Cloud | Together GPU Clusters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 92 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 5 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lambda Cloud | Together GPU Clusters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Lambda | Together AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` | `https://api.together.ai/v1/compute/clusters` |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Price for gpu compute | $9.86 per GPU-hour | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Together's terms of service. The Python SDK and CLI are Apache-2.0 and the OpenAPI document is MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-01 | no date given |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Together GPU Clusters +70: Lambda Cloud 5 (No changelog or release notes found, and the docs pages carry no dates, so we couldn't date the last API change. The spec still reads 1.10.0 although it gained identity, group, role and workspace paths since 1 October (0). No dated changes in the last 90 days found (0). Closed service with a status page that posts updates and a support-ticket API, but no changelog (5 of 15). No official SDK (0). No packages to assess (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 5.); Together GPU Clusters 75 (Closed service. The newest cluster change is CLI and SDK 3.0 on 22 October 2026, 15 days before this check (30). Dated cluster entries in the 90 days from 8 August include 12, 18, 19, 24, 27 and 28 August, 10 September and 22 October (20). Dated changelog, a support portal and Discord, with responsiveness not tested (8). Python SDK 3.1 and TypeScript SDK 1.0 are current and cover clusters (15). SDK CI and dependencies weren't audited (2). 30+20+8+15+2 = 75.)
- Schema & documentation, Together GPU Clusters +23: Lambda Cloud 69 (OpenAPI 3.1 spec, version 1.10.0, linked from the API reference as a download, now 48 paths including identities, groups, roles and workspaces (25). No llms.txt (docs.lambda.com/llms.txt returns 404) and no Markdown twins (0). Operations are described with preconditions, for example a filesystem must be unmounted before deletion, but few say when not to call them (14). Required fields are marked; instance type names and statuses are plain strings rather than enums (10). Examples on requests and responses, and 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 429 and 503 documented with a `code`, `message` and `suggestion` (15). The spec is versioned and flags `/file-systems` as deprecated, but there's no public changelog or release notes, and the identity and role paths arrived without a version change (5). 25 + 0 + 14 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 69.); Together GPU Clusters 92 (Public OpenAPI 3.1 for /v1/compute/clusters and shared volumes, MIT, embedded in every reference page (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page (10). The docs say when to choose Kubernetes or Slurm and each capacity type, and the management page carries instructions for agents on reporting live availability and prices (18). Enums for cluster type, billing type, GPU type and status, required fields marked (13). CLI, Python, TypeScript and console steps on each task, with 402 and 403 cases documented, though no error catalogue for the clusters API (11). Versioned SDKs and a dated changelog with cluster entries (15). 25+10+18+13+11+15 = 92.)
- Reliability, Lambda Cloud +17: Lambda Cloud 55 (incident.io page at status.lambda.ai with components (Cloud API, Network, Virtual Machines, Storage and others) and an RSS feed (20). The feed holds only its ten latest items, back to updates of 17 August 2026, and the page lists only incidents linked to components, so 6 to 17 August is partly unread. What is readable since 6 August touches one region or one function each, so partial and minor by this run's reading: us-south-2 instances unreachable 15 to 17 August, us-midwest-2 networking and performance (opened 3 August, resolved 25 August), API key viewing and creation 10 September, us-south-3 resources 23 September, us-west-1 launches 12 October and us-east-3 launches for 1 hour 10 minutes on 28 October; the 31 October DNS fault hit the lambda.ai website, not the API. The 27 July and 29 to 30 July majors have left the window, but a partly unread window gives no credit, so the line keeps its recorded 0. Rate limits published, one request a second and one launch every 12 seconds (15). The spec's `global/rate-limited` error says to wait for the Retry-After interval and retry, with no idempotency key or safe-retry guidance for launch (10). No SLA found (0). The Cloud API is GA (10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 55.); Together GPU Clusters 38 (Read with the hosted lines. status.together.ai lists the website, the playground and serverless models with no component for GPU clusters, and a vendor page with no component for the product takes 15 in this run, as for Together's Code Sandbox and fine-tuning listings (15). No incident history for clusters can be read (5). No rate limits for the clusters API found (0). Together's docs give 429 and 503 backoff guidance for its APIs, per the inference listing's 1 November check, and the CLI has `--non-interactive` and `--json` for scripted retries, but creation has no idempotency key (8). No SLA for clusters found; the published 99% commitment covers provisioned inference throughput only (0). Generally available since 9 September 2025 and out of the CLI's beta paths since 22 October 2026, with preemptible nodes in preview (10). 15+5+0+8+0+10 = 38.)
- Agent ergonomics, Lambda Cloud +8: Lambda Cloud 63 (Responses wrap a `data` payload and lists use `page_token`; no field selection (15). Cursor pagination, and audit events filter by start, end and resource type (18). Errors carry a stable `code`, a `suggestion` and a `request_id`, and the docs tell clients to branch on `code` (20). No idempotency keys and nothing on safe retries for launch; 409 signals conflicts (5). Launch needs region, instance type and SSH key names, and there's no official SDK (5). 15 + 18 + 20 + 5 + 5 = 63.); Together GPU Clusters 55 (Cluster objects are compact, and `--json` gives machine-readable output, but list calls take no field selection (15). No pagination or filters on the clusters list (8). 402 and 403 with readable messages such as "Insufficient credits for cluster creation", and troubleshooting for common failures (12). Status polling until Ready is documented and deletes run non-interactively, but there is no idempotency key on creation and a duplicate create bills a second cluster (8). Official Python and TypeScript SDKs and a CLI, though a create takes GPU type, region, driver and CUDA versions, cluster type and billing type (12). 15+8+12+8+12 = 55.)
- Transparency & trust, Together GPU Clusters +5: Lambda Cloud 60 (Closed service under California terms dated August 2025 (15). A privacy policy dated 1 January 2026 exists, but we found no retention period for instance disks or filesystems after termination, and the trust portal says none either (10). One dated deprecation in the spec (`/file-systems` in favour of `/filesystems`, not scheduled for removal) and no deprecation policy (8). The trust portal names its subprocessors (Cloudflare, Oracle) and the docs name each region (15). 15 + 10 + 8 + 15 = 48.); Together GPU Clusters 65 (Closed service under Together's terms, with Apache-2.0 SDKs, which don't raise the line for a closed API (15). The privacy policy's data table covers GPU clusters, per the 4 November Code Sandbox check, and the billing page states when volumes are deleted after credit runs out, with no retention period for data on deleted clusters (15). The 3.0 breaking change came with a migration guide on the day, and reservations carry dated end-of-term emails, with no notice period for API changes found (8). Regions are listed through the API and US regions appear in examples; subprocessors and data locations for clusters were not established (8). 15+15+8+8 = 46.)