# Runpod vs Vultr vs Lambda: Prices, Sites and Capital Source: https://savrn.com/ai-index/compare/runpod-vs-vultr-vs-lambda Markdown alternate of the page above; the site index is https://savrn.com/llms.txt --- [SAVRN Index.](https://savrn.com/ai-index) Explore the IndexCategories ## Side by side | Measure | Runpod | Vultr | Lambda | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Index category | GPU cloud | NeoCloud | NeoCloud | | Listing | Private | Private | Private | | Named sites (Capital Atlas) | none on record | 1 | 2 | | Disclosed capacity, all sites | not stated | 50 MW | 24 MW | | Operating or building | not stated | not stated | not stated | | Disclosed site capital | not stated | $1.0B | not stated | | States with named sites | none on record | OH | MO, OK | | GPU prices tracked | 7 | 7 | 7 | | Accelerators priced | 4 | 5 | 3 | | Lowest H100 list price, per GPU-hour | $2.89 | $2.30 | $3.29 | | Lowest B200 list price, per GPU-hour | $6.79 | $3.50 | $6.69 | | Sources cited in the Index | 0 | 2 | 2 | ## Runpod [Full profile: Runpod →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/companies/runpod) ## Vultr Vultr announced a financing at a $3.5 billion valuation in December 2024 with LuminArx Capital Management and AMD Ventures, with the round size reported as $333 million. In December 2025 it said it would invest more than $1 billion in a 50MW AI cluster in Springfield, Ohio using 24,000 AMD MI355 chips. Anchor customer contract values are n.a. [Full profile: Vultr →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/companies/vultr) ## Lambda (Lambda Labs) Lambda has layered a $320 million Series C, a $500 million GPU-backed SPV facility led by Macquarie, a $480 million Series D, a Series E of more than $1.5 billion, and debt facilities including a $926 million term loan B, a $1 billion syndicated facility and a $275 million facility, with a $350 million pre-IPO round reportedly in talks ahead of a targeted H2 2026 IPO. Its anchor relationships include a multibillion-dollar Microsoft agreement covering GB300 NVL72 systems and a reported $1.5 billion Nvidia lease-back. Flagship US expansion is a Kansas City, Missouri deployment starting at 24MW and scaling above 100MW against a company-wide 3GW liquid-cooled ambition. On 31 August 2026 Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported that Lambda had signed a $35 billion cloud agreement with Anthropic, with the capacity to run through Hut 8's Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas on a lease held by Nvidia. The reports did not disclose the agreement's term, GPU count, payment schedule or computing capacity. [Full profile: Lambda →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/companies/lambda) Questions this page answers Which is larger, Runpod or Vultr or Lambda? By capacity disclosed at named sites, Vultr, with 50 MW across 1 sites. Runpod has no megawatt figure on record at 0 sites. Lambda has 24 MW at 2 sites. Which publishes the lowest H100 price? Vultr, at $2.30 per GPU-hour on its published list price. Runpod lists $2.89. Lambda lists $3.29. Where do these figures come from? Sites, capacity and capital come from the SAVRN Capital Atlas, which keeps a source link beside every figure. Prices come from the SAVRN price tracker, which reads each provider's own page or feed. The company profiles linked above carry every source. Keep going - [Alternatives to Runpod →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/alternatives/runpod) - [Top neocloud GPU providers →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/categories/neocloud-gpu-providers) - [GPU prices by the hour →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus) - [All SAVRN Index categories →](https://savrn.com/ai-index/categories) The SAVRN reference set ## Seven references, one system Capital, delay, policy, water, grid, permits and scarcity are one system seen from seven sides. Each reference is primary-sourced, refreshed on a schedule, and links into the others, so a project can be followed from the money committed to the docket that stopped it. Capital Atlas Who is funding AI data centers: capital providers, named sites, financing transactions, and the blocked-and-delayed record, state by state and company by company. [Open the atlas →](https://savrn.com/data-center-capital-atlas) Delay Watchlist Project-level slippage: named projects, jurisdictional actions, utility and federal dockets, SEC disclosures, and the interconnection queue. Open the watchlist → Moratorium Tracker The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state. Open the tracker → Water Tracker Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger. Open the water tracker → Grid Operator Watchlist ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC: the large-load rules, filings and queue positions that decide whether a site can energize. Open the watchlist → Permits and Power Development Data center and substation permits, large loads in the interconnection queues, and the power plants planned to serve them, refreshed hourly from public records. Open the permits tracker → SAVRN Scarcity Tracker Eleven primary-sourced indicators of AI infrastructure scarcity, one composite index, read against the token index, SAVRN's own cost basis and the frontier ceiling. Open the scarcity tracker → Have a specific address? Site Intelligence reads all seven references against one location, county, utility and grid operator included, and cites every finding. [Check this address →](https://savrn.com/site-intelligence)