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Lambda

Lambda (formerly Lambda Labs) is a GPU cloud provider offering on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, 1-Click Clusters of 16-2,000+ interconnected H100 and B200 GPUs, long-term reserved Hyperplane capacity, filesystems, firewalls, and SSH key management. Lambda Cloud is accessed via a REST control-plane API, the web console, and SDKs/CLI tooling.

Lambda publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Inference API, Audit Events API, Fabric API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include AI, Cloud, Clusters, Compute, and GPU.

The Lambda catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Lambda’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, developer portal, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 12 more developer resources.

55.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try
13 APIs 5 Features
AICloudClustersComputeGPUInferenceMachine Learning

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Composite quality — 55.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 5.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 13

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Lambda Cloud API

The Lambda Cloud API is the REST control plane for launching, listing, starting, stopping, and terminating GPU instances, managing SSH keys, firewalls, filesystems, images, and ...

Lambda 1-Click Clusters

Lambda 1-Click Clusters provision interconnected clusters of 16 to 2,000+ NVIDIA H100 SXM or B200 GPUs for short-duration distributed training workloads. The product is exposed ...

Lambda Cloud Filesystems

Lambda Cloud Filesystems provide persistent, sharable storage attached to on-demand instances for datasets and checkpoints. Filesystems are managed through the Cloud API and con...

Lambda Inference API

Lambda Inference API is an OpenAI-compatible REST gateway at https://api.lambda.ai/v1 that serves hosted open-source language models (Llama, DeepSeek, Hermes, Qwen, and others) ...

Lambda Audit Events API

The Audit Events API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for audit events.

Lambda Fabric API

The Fabric API from Lambda — 2 operation(s) for fabric.

Lambda Filesystems API

The Filesystems API from Lambda — 3 operation(s) for filesystems.

Lambda Firewalls API

The Firewalls API from Lambda — 4 operation(s) for firewalls.

Lambda Images API

The Images API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for images.

Lambda Instances API

The Instances API from Lambda — 6 operation(s) for instances.

Lambda Regions API

The Regions API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for regions.

Lambda SSH keys API

The SSH keys API from Lambda — 2 operation(s) for ssh keys.

Lambda Support Tickets API

The Lambda Support Ticketing API is currently in beta. Contact support to enable access.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Lambda Cloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lambda Labs Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 5

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

On-Demand GPU Instances

Self-serve, first-come access to 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x NVIDIA GPU virtual machines billed per-hour with no egress fees.

1-Click Clusters

Pre-configured clusters of 16-2,000+ interconnected H100 SXM or B200 GPUs for distributed training.

Hyperplane Reserved Capacity

Long-term reserved GPU clusters sold via direct sales engagement for sustained training workloads.

Lambda Stack

Pre-installed CUDA, cuDNN, PyTorch, and TensorFlow software stack across all Lambda Cloud instances.

Filesystems

Persistent, sharable storage attached to on-demand instances for datasets and checkpoints.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Lambda Inference API Chat Completions Streaming (HTTP + SSE)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the Lambda (formerly Lambda Labs) **Inference API** chat completion streaming surface. The Lambda Inference API is an OpenAI-compatible REST gateway ...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Lambda API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lambda Labs Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lambda Labs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lambda Labs Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Lambda Labs Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Lambda Labs Agentic Access

37 operations · 21 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

37 operations · 21 acting

AGENTIC

Integrations 3

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Hugging Face

Reference workflows and templates for serving and training Hugging Face models on Lambda Cloud.

PyTorch

PyTorch ships pre-installed via Lambda Stack on all instances.

TensorFlow

TensorFlow ships pre-installed via Lambda Stack on all instances.

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: lambda-labs
name: Lambda
description: Lambda (formerly Lambda Labs) is a GPU cloud provider offering on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, 1-Click Clusters
  of 16-2,000+ interconnected H100 and B200 GPUs, long-term reserved Hyperplane capacity, filesystems, firewalls, and SSH
  key management. Lambda Cloud is accessed via a REST control-plane API, the web console, and SDKs/CLI tooling.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lambda-labs.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lambda-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Producer
tags:
- AI
- Cloud
- Clusters
- Compute
- GPU
- Inference
- Machine Learning
apis:
- aid: lambda-labs:cloud-api
  name: Lambda Cloud API
  description: The Lambda Cloud API is the REST control plane for launching, listing, starting, stopping, and terminating
    GPU instances, managing SSH keys, firewalls, filesystems, images, and instance types. It supports on-demand single instances
    and underpins programmatic access to Lambda's GPU fleet.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Compute
  - Filesystems
  - Firewalls
  - GPU
  - Instances
  - REST
  - SSH Keys
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
- aid: lambda-labs:1-click-clusters
  name: Lambda 1-Click Clusters
  description: Lambda 1-Click Clusters provision interconnected clusters of 16 to 2,000+ NVIDIA H100 SXM or B200 GPUs for
    short-duration distributed training workloads. The product is exposed through the Lambda Cloud console and is integrated
    with the Cloud API surface.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/
  tags:
  - B200
  - Clusters
  - GPU
  - H100
  - Training
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/
- aid: lambda-labs:filesystems
  name: Lambda Cloud Filesystems
  description: Lambda Cloud Filesystems provide persistent, sharable storage attached to on-demand instances for datasets
    and checkpoints. Filesystems are managed through the Cloud API and console.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/filesystems/
  tags:
  - Filesystems
  - Persistent Storage
  - Storage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/filesystems/
- aid: lambda-labs:inference-api
  name: Lambda Inference API
  description: Lambda Inference API is an OpenAI-compatible REST gateway at https://api.lambda.ai/v1 that serves hosted open-source
    language models (Llama, DeepSeek, Hermes, Qwen, and others) behind the standard OpenAI Chat Completions surface. Chat
    completion responses can be streamed as HTTP Server-Sent Events by setting "stream":true on the POST /chat/completions
    request body; the SSE stream emits chat.completion.chunk events terminated by a data [DONE] sentinel. As of 2026-05-29
    Lambda has announced the Inference API is winding down in favor of customer self-hosted deployments on Lambda GPU instances.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/lambda-inference-api/
  baseURL: https://api.lambda.ai/v1
  tags:
  - AI
  - Chat
  - Completions
  - Inference
  - LLM
  - OpenAI Compatible
  - SSE
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/lambda-inference-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lambda.ai/inference
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/lambda-labs-asyncapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-audit-events-api
  name: Lambda Audit Events API
  description: The Audit Events API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for audit events.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Audit Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-audit-events-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-fabric-api
  name: Lambda Fabric API
  description: The Fabric API from Lambda — 2 operation(s) for fabric.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Fabric
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-fabric-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-filesystems-api
  name: Lambda Filesystems API
  description: The Filesystems API from Lambda — 3 operation(s) for filesystems.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Filesystems
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-filesystems-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-firewalls-api
  name: Lambda Firewalls API
  description: The Firewalls API from Lambda — 4 operation(s) for firewalls.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Firewalls
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-firewalls-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-images-api
  name: Lambda Images API
  description: The Images API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for images.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-images-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-instances-api
  name: Lambda Instances API
  description: The Instances API from Lambda — 6 operation(s) for instances.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Instances
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-instances-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-regions-api
  name: Lambda Regions API
  description: The Regions API from Lambda — 1 operation(s) for regions.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Regions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-regions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-ssh-keys-api
  name: Lambda SSH keys API
  description: The SSH keys API from Lambda — 2 operation(s) for ssh keys.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - SSH keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-ssh-keys-api-openapi.yml
- aid: lambda-labs:lambda-labs-support-tickets-api
  name: Lambda Support Tickets API
  description: The Lambda Support Ticketing API is currently in beta. Contact support to enable access.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Support Tickets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-labs-support-tickets-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lambda-labs-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/lambda-labs-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/lambda-labs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lambda-labs-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lambda-labs-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lambda.ai
- type: Developer
  url: https://docs.lambda.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.lambda.ai
- type: Portal
  url: https://cloud.lambda.ai
- type: Signup
  url: https://cloud.lambda.ai/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://cloud.lambda.ai/login
- type: Pricing
  url: https://lambda.ai/service/gpu-cloud
- type: Blog
  url: https://lambda.ai/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lambda.ai/legal/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lambda.ai/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Support
  url: https://lambda.ai/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/LambdaLabsML
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lambda-labs
- name: Lambda Stack
  url: https://lambda.ai/lambda-stack-deep-learning-software
  type: SDKs
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: On-Demand GPU Instances
    description: Self-serve, first-come access to 1x, 2x, 4x, and 8x NVIDIA GPU virtual machines billed per-hour with no egress
      fees.
  - name: 1-Click Clusters
    description: Pre-configured clusters of 16-2,000+ interconnected H100 SXM or B200 GPUs for distributed training.
  - name: Hyperplane Reserved Capacity
    description: Long-term reserved GPU clusters sold via direct sales engagement for sustained training workloads.
  - name: Lambda Stack
    description: Pre-installed CUDA, cuDNN, PyTorch, and TensorFlow software stack across all Lambda Cloud instances.
  - name: Filesystems
    description: Persistent, sharable storage attached to on-demand instances for datasets and checkpoints.
- type: GPUs
  data:
  - name: NVIDIA B200 SXM6
    description: Blackwell-generation flagship GPU, listed at $6.69-$6.99/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA H100 SXM
    description: 80GB Hopper GPU on SXM, listed at $3.99-$4.29/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA GH200
    description: Grace Hopper Superchip, listed at $2.29/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB)
    description: 80GB Ampere GPU on SXM, listed at $2.79/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA A100 PCIe (40GB)
    description: 40GB Ampere GPU on PCIe, listed at $1.99/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA RTX A6000
    description: 48GB Ada/Ampere workstation GPU, listed at $1.09/GPU/hr.
  - name: NVIDIA Tesla V100
    description: 16GB Volta GPU, listed at $0.79/GPU/hr.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Hugging Face
    description: Reference workflows and templates for serving and training Hugging Face models on Lambda Cloud.
  - name: PyTorch
    description: PyTorch ships pre-installed via Lambda Stack on all instances.
  - name: TensorFlow
    description: TensorFlow ships pre-installed via Lambda Stack on all instances.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com