GPUBank vs Lium
Lium is a GPU rental marketplace on Bittensor subnet 51, run by Datura AI Corp of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Independent providers list whole machines and set their own asks, so prices move: on 2026-09-29 the H100 SXM ranged from $1.30 to $2.20 per GPU-hour, against a fixed $1.85 at GPUBank. Lium has 91 GPU models, cards and a headless signup; GPUBank runs its own capacity, includes traffic and IPv4 and keeps a stopped instance at disk cost.
GPUBank
Tallinn, Estonia
H100 SXM
$1.85 / h
- vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
- Per-second billing after the health check
- Top up in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins
vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
Lium
Saint Kitts and Nevis
H100 SXM · marketplace
$1.30 / h
- H100 SXM live asks from $1.30 per GPU-hour, L40S at $0.38
- 91 GPU models, from GTX 1080 up to B300 SXM6
- Pay by card, stablecoin, TAO or Bittensor alpha, from $10
Lium
Marketplace
27 points compared21 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Lower lowest asks and a wider catalogue at Lium. Fixed prices on own-operated GPUs at GPUBank.
Lium suits cost-sensitive jobs and AI agents that can live with provider variability: its lowest live asks beat GPUBank on the H100 SXM, L40S and RTX PRO 6000, and it lists 91 models. GPUBank is cheaper on the B200, H200, H100 PCIe, A100 SXM 80GB, RTX 5090 and RTX 4090, and its prices do not depend on which host has a free pod. Lium has no pause state, no SLA and no status page, and its own docs warn that some 4- and 8-GPU rentals were silently cut to 1 GPU. Lium takes cards, stablecoins and TAO; GPUBank takes more than a dozen coins and no card.
LiumGPUBank 01The real cost
The same GPUs, side by side, per hour.
Every GPU model both of us rent, at each provider's own published price for one card, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
| GPU | Lium per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Lium | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB · their marketplace price |
$5.35 | $4.15 | −22 % | $535.00 | $415.00 |
 H200 SXM141 GB · their marketplace price |
$3.40 | $2.49 | −27 % | $340.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB · their marketplace price |
$1.30 | $1.85 | +42 % | $130.00 | $185.00 |
 H100 PCIe80 GB · their marketplace price |
$1.40 | $1.35 | −4 % | $140.00 | $135.00 |
 RTX PRO 600096 GB · their marketplace price |
$1.10 | $1.15 | +5 % | $110.00 | $115.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB · their marketplace price |
$1.18 | $0.95 | −19 % | $118.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB · their marketplace price |
$0.38 | $0.55 | +45 % | $38.00 | $55.00 |
 RTX 509032 GB · their marketplace price |
$0.50 | $0.48 | −4 % | $50.00 | $48.00 |
 RTX 409024 GB · their marketplace price |
$0.35 | $0.23 | −34 % | $35.00 | $23.00 |
Where Lium publishes no on-demand price for a model, its lowest published marketplace price is used, as labelled on the row.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Lium
$52.00
GPUBank
$74.00
Costs $22.00 more at GPUBank (+42 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Lium
$273.60
GPUBank
$396.00
Costs $122.40 more at GPUBank (+45 %)
Image generation, 200 h on an RTX 4090
Lium
$70.00
GPUBank
$46.00
Saves $24.00 at GPUBank (−34 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Lium lists.
Lium lists 91 GPU models. The 69 below leave out its older and smaller cards, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 9 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- Blackwell and Hopper9
- B300288 GB · marketplace$8.50
- B200180 GB · marketplace$5.35
- H200141 GB · marketplace$3.40
- H100 SXM80 GB · marketplace$1.30
- H100 NVL94 GB · marketplace$1.11
- H100 PCIe80 GB · marketplace$1.40
- H80080 GB · marketplace$0.80
- H200 NVL141 GB · marketplace$2.90
- H800 NVL94 GB · marketplace$0.80
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre14
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · marketplace$1.18
A100 PCIe 80GB80 GB · marketplace$0.45- A800 80GB80 GB · marketplace$0.31
- L40S48 GB · marketplace$0.38
- L4048 GB · marketplace$0.33
L424 GB · marketplace$0.11
A4048 GB · marketplace$0.12
A3024 GB · marketplace$0.10
A1024 GB · marketplace$0.20
T416 GB · marketplace$0.15
V10016 GB · marketplace$0.17- M4012 GB · marketplace$0.08
P10016 GB · marketplace$0.08- P4024 GB · marketplace$0.07
- Workstation21
- RTX PRO 600096 GB · marketplace$1.10
RTX 6000 Ada48 GB · marketplace$0.69
RTX A600048 GB · marketplace$0.42
RTX A500024 GB · marketplace$0.16
RTX 4000 Ada20 GB · marketplace$0.16
RTX A400016 GB · marketplace$0.12- RTX PRO 6000D96 GB · marketplace$0.82
- RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell48 GB · marketplace$0.67
- RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell32 GB · marketplace$0.40
- RTX 5880 Ada48 GB · marketplace$0.34
- RTX 5000 Ada32 GB · marketplace$0.27
Quadro RTX 800048 GB · marketplace$0.21- RTX 4500 Ada24 GB · marketplace$0.20
- RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell24 GB · marketplace$0.20
- RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell16 GB · marketplace$0.17
- Quadro RTX 600024 GB · marketplace$0.13
- RTX A450020 GB · marketplace$0.13
- Quadro RTX 500016 GB · marketplace$0.07
- RTX 2000 Ada16 GB · marketplace$0.07
- RTX A20006 GB · marketplace$0.06
- Quadro P40008 GB · marketplace$0.05
- Consumer24
- RTX 509032 GB · marketplace$0.50
- RTX 508016 GB · marketplace$0.15
- Consumer continued24
- RTX 5070 Ti16 GB · marketplace$0.12
- RTX 507012 GB · marketplace$0.09
- RTX 5060 Ti16 GB · marketplace$0.30
- RTX 50608 GB · marketplace$0.11
- RTX 4090 D24 GB · marketplace$0.11
- RTX 409024 GB · marketplace$0.35
- RTX 4080 SUPER16 GB · marketplace$0.16
- RTX 408016 GB · marketplace$0.16
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER16 GB · marketplace$0.18
- RTX 4070 Ti12 GB · marketplace$0.11
- RTX 4070 SUPER12 GB · marketplace$0.09
- RTX 407012 GB · marketplace$0.08
- RTX 4060 Ti8 GB · marketplace$0.11
- RTX 40608 GB · marketplace$0.06
RTX 3090 Ti24 GB · marketplace$0.16- RTX 309024 GB · marketplace$0.16
RTX 3080 Ti12 GB · marketplace$0.10- RTX 308010 GB · marketplace$0.09
- RTX 3070 Ti8 GB · marketplace$0.09
- RTX 30708 GB · marketplace$0.07
- RTX 3060 Ti8 GB · marketplace$0.06
- RTX 306012 GB · marketplace$0.06
- Other models1
- CMP 170HX8 GB · marketplace$0.22
03What the price includes
What appears on the bill besides the GPU.
The same H100 SXM session of 2 h 14 m 03 s, line by line, as each provider describes its billing.
Lium
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.30 / h
- $2.90
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- $0.00005 per GB-hour, about $0.036 per GB-month
- Egress
- Pod egress not published; volume reads billed
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- Per second
- Minimum charge
- None; balance must cover 15 minutes to deploy
GPUBank
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.85 / h
- $4.13
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local NVMe included; persistent disk $0.03 per GB-month
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Billing granularity
- Per second, from the health check
- Minimum charge
- None
While stopped
What keeps running on the bill.
Lium
No pause; billed until the pod is removed.
Local data is deleted with the pod. Only attached volumes persist.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
16 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Lium says its GPUs run, from its own region list or documentation, against GPUBank's four regions. A pin marks a country, not the exact site.
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Lium16
Australia
Belarus
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Japan
Kazakhstan
Lithuania
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Spain
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
GPUBank4
- Paris
- Frankfurt
- Ashburn
Singapore
Lium · 16 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Lium
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
CardsCrypto: Stablecoins, TAO and Bittensor alpha
Minimum top-up $10 ($20 for Auto Top Up)
To start
- 1Email and password
Billing modelPrepaid balance
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
No cardsA prepaid USD balance, topped up in crypto. Every GPU-second is drawn from it.
Minimum top-up $25
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Top up in crypto
- 3Launch a GPU
Billing modelPrepaid balance
06Trust and support
Certificates, uptime and who answers.
| Lium | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Not published | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Not published | Not published |
| HIPAA | Not published | No |
| GDPR DPA | Not published | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | None; terms give no uptime warranty | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | None | Public status page |
| Support | Email and a per-pod Discord channel | Tickets from a $25 balance |
07Their site, our site
What you see before you pay.
Both sites as a visitor sees them, without an account: the Lium pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The home page is the live marketplace, with price, per-GPU price, CPU, RAM, uptime and city on each pod card.
- 2The pricing page lists every model per GPU-hour, with live ranges and availability, without an account.
- 3The footer links an llms-full.txt reference written for AI agents.
- 1Live stock per region and every price, without an account.
- 2Per-hour and per-second prices, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic in them.
- 3A machine-readable price feed at /prices.json.
08The spec sheet
27 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadLium aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourLowest provider ask on 2026-09-29, not a list price. Lium's reference price is $1.39. | $1.85, all-in | From $1.30 live ask (range $1.30 to $2.20)Ahead |
| Cheapest GPU-hourNo GTX 1080 pod was free on the check date; the figure is a reference, not a live ask. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.03 reference price, GTX 1080Ahead |
| GPU models listedOnly 17 of the 91 models had a free pod on 2026-09-29. | 10 | 91Ahead |
| What the GPU price includes | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local disk; varies by provider node |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | None; balance must cover 15 minutes to deploy |
| Stopped instanceLocal data is deleted with the pod. Only attached volumes persist. | Disk only | No pause; billed until the pod is removed |
| Persistent storageVolumes are S3-compatible object storage, billed on data stored. | $0.03 per GB-month | $0.00005 per GB-hour, about $0.036 per GB-month |
| Egress trafficVolume reads are billed at Lium's AWS cost per GB, with no free tier. | Included | Pod egress not published; volume reads billed |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid balance |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsBoth accept crypto. GPUBank lists more than a dozen coins. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Stablecoins, TAO and Bittensor alpha |
| Card payments | No | Cards via Stripe, with Auto Top UpAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | $10 ($20 for Auto Top Up)Ahead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
| Terraform | Official provider | No |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | No |
| Ready-made templatesDocker templates exist, but their number is not published. | 25 | Not published |
| Interruptible or spot2 of 118 rentable nodes were on the Spot tier on the check date. | Yes, 40 % off | Spot tier set by providers |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8 per pod, multi-node clustersAhead |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | NVLink on some nodes; InfiniBand or RoCEAhead |
| Network and regions | ||
| RegionsLocations follow the provider fleet, which changes continuously. | 4 | Provider nodes in 46 citiesAhead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | 16, of which 69 of 118 nodes in the USAhead |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | Nodes in 8 EU countries, incl. France and GermanyAhead |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | None; terms give no uptime warranty |
| Compliance reportsLium publishes an export-control and sanctions policy. | None published | No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 published |
| Public status page | Yes | None |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email and a per-pod Discord channel |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Lium does better
- H100 SXM live asks from $1.30 per GPU-hour, L40S at $0.38
- 91 GPU models, from GTX 1080 up to B300 SXM6
- Pay by card, stablecoin, TAO or Bittensor alpha, from $10
- Headless signup with no email, plus CLI, Python SDK and a price JSON
- Multi-node clusters on InfiniBand or RoCE, and Intel TDX nodes
Choose GPUBank if
- Fixed prices on our own capacity, not provider asks that move
- B200 at $4.15 and H200 at $2.49, against asks from $5.35 and $3.40
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk, at $0.03 per GB-month
- All traffic and one public IPv4 included in the GPU price
- 99.9 % monthly SLA target, status page and Terraform provider
Moving from Lium takes an afternoon.
Lium workloads run as Docker containers, so images move as they are. Local disks are deleted with the pod, and volume data sits in S3-compatible buckets whose reads are billed as egress.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy data from a running Lium pod with rsync or scp, before the pod is removed.
- 3Run the same Docker image or pick the matching template, then remove the Lium pods and volumes.
# 1. a GPU and a disk on GPUBank gpubank launch --gpu h100-sxm --region eu-paris --disk data # 2. copy your data from the old machine rsync -azP old-host:/workspace/ root@<new-ip>:/workspace/ # 3. run the same image or template ssh root@<new-ip> 'cd /workspace && ./start.sh'
A few things you might be wondering.
Sometimes. Lium is a marketplace, and on 2026-09-29 H100 SXM asks from independent providers ran from $1.30 to $2.20 per GPU-hour. GPUBank charges a fixed $1.85 per GPU-hour, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included. A 40-hour fine-tune costs $52.00 at the lowest Lium ask and $74.00 on GPUBank.
No. Each provider sets its own ask, and the pricing page shows a range per model. On the check date only 17 of the 91 models had a free pod; the rest showed a Lium reference price. A provider price increase reaches a running pod 7 days after notice.
Lium documents no pause that stops compute billing. A pod bills from the deploy request until it is removed, and its local data is deleted with it. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
Yes. Lium takes stablecoins by invoice, with USDT on Tron as the example, plus TAO and Bittensor alpha, and cards through Stripe, from $10. GPUBank takes Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins from $25, and no cards.
No. Lium's terms provide the service as is, with no uptime warranty, and there is no status page. Each listing shows the node's own uptime and a reliability score. GPUBank states a 99.9 % monthly SLA target per region in its terms and runs a status page.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Lium and for GPUBank, so the two columns compare like for like. Tax is added at checkout according to where the buyer is based.
Sources
Every figure about Lium was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01lium.io/Listings, filters, tier options, site observations
- 02lium.io/pricingPer-model GPU-hour prices and ranges, billing FAQ, 95 % provider share
- 03lium.io/pricing.json91 models, reference and min/max prices, VRAM, availability
- 04lium.io/gpu/h100H100 SXM vs PCIe labelling, from prices
- 05lium.io/api/public/v1/nodesNode locations, tiers (secure/spot), GPU counts
- 06lium.io/api/v1/shared-configBittensor netuid 51, volume GB-hour price, rental fee rate
- 07lium.io/llms.txtProduct scope, fleet totals, API endpoints
- 08lium.io/llms-full.txtSignup paths, funding options, crypto invoices, CLI, clusters, GPU verification caveats
- 09lium.io/termsLegal entity, jurisdiction, payment methods, refunds, no uptime warranty
- 10docs.lium.io/pod-users/billing.mdPer-second billing, balance rules, minimum top-ups, Auto Top Up
- 11docs.lium.io/pod-users/volumes.mdVolume storage price, egress on reads
- 12docs.lium.io/pod-users/backups.mdBackup storage and schedules
- 13docs.lium.io/pod-users/clusters.mdInfiniBand/RoCE clusters
- 14docs.lium.io/pod-users/security.mdConfidential computing (Intel TDX), encryption
- 15docs.lium.io/pod-users/discord-support.mdSupport channels
- 16docs.lium.io/security/export-compliance.mdCompliance, access review
- 17docs.lium.io/providers/portal/node-tier.mdSpot tier definition
- 18docs.lium.io/pod-users/invoices.mdStripe invoices for card top-ups with company and VAT details
What we could not verify (9)
- Founding date, headcount and funding: not published on lium.io or docs.lium.io
- Pod internet egress pricing or caps: not published
- Dedicated public IPv4 per pod: not published
- PayPal and bank wire: not mentioned in the terms or billing docs
- Full list of accepted stablecoins and networks: only returned by an authenticated API call (GET /tmc-pay/currencies)
- Number of public templates: not published
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR DPA: no statement found
- Regions are the locations of rentable nodes in the public feed on 2026-09-29 (118 nodes); the provider fleet changes continuously
- Median price per model is not published; rows record the lowest live ask (the low end of the published range) or the reference price
In short
GPUBank vs Lium, in facts.
The essentials of this comparison in one table, for quick readers and AI assistants. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
Read as Markdown- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Lium: From $1.30 live ask (range $1.30 to $2.20)
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Lium: $0.03 reference price, GTX 1080
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Lium: Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Lium: No pause; billed until the pod is removed
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Lium: $0.00005 per GB-hour, about $0.036 per GB-month
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Lium: Pod egress not published; volume reads billed
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Lium: Stablecoins, TAO and Bittensor alpha
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Lium: Cards via Stripe, with Auto Top Up
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Lium: $10 ($20 for Auto Top Up)
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Lium: 91
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Lium: Provider nodes in 46 cities
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Lium: No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Lium: None; terms give no uptime warranty
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Lium: No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 published
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Lium: Email and a per-pod Discord channel
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Lium: Saint Kitts and Nevis
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Lium was read on its own website, documentation or public API on 29 September 2026, with the address of each page listed above. A value we could not read on a primary source is marked "Not published" rather than estimated. GPUBank figures come from this site and its terms. Prices change: check both providers before you buy. Lium, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Lium.
