# Lambda Cloud vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 50 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lambda Cloud leads on agent ergonomics. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 50 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lambda Cloud leads on agent ergonomics. Both do compute gpu.

- Lambda Cloud: D 50, rank #523 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #297 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.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 Agent ergonomics, 63 against 57.
- Vast.ai, good for Cost-sensitive training, batch work and self-managed inference where the agent can search listings, set a price cap and tolerate host variance or interruption. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 50; Schema & documentation, 78 against 69; Security & auth, 72 against 60; Maintenance & community, 81 against 5.

| Category | Lambda Cloud | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 5 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lambda Cloud | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Lambda | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Price for compute gpu | $9.86 per GPU-hour | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-08-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-01-01 | 2025-06-18 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |