Lambda

Lambda gives your team instant access to the compute you need to build and deploy Artificial Intelligence. Lambda Cloud provides on-demand GPU instances powered by NVIDIA A100, H100, and other high-performance GPUs for deep learning training and inference workloads.

Lambda publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including File Systems API, Images API, Instance Types API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Compute, Deep Learning, and GPU.

The Lambda catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Lambda’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 12 more developer resources.

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61.0/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

5 APIs 7 Features 5 Use Cases

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingComputeDeep LearningGPUMachine Learning

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 61.0/100 · strong

Contract Quality 16.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent aware

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 0 / 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 5

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lambda Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Lambda Finops

FINOPS

Features 7

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

On-demand GPU cloud instances (A100, H100)

Persistent storage file systems

SSH key management

Jupyter notebook integration

RESTful API with API key authentication

Multiple region availability

Pre-installed deep learning frameworks

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JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers build with this provider.

Training large language models and deep learning models

Running GPU-accelerated inference workloads

Provisioning ephemeral compute for ML experiments

Managing persistent datasets across training runs

Automating GPU infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lambda
name: Lambda
description: Lambda gives your team instant access to the compute you need to build and deploy Artificial Intelligence. Lambda
  Cloud provides on-demand GPU instances powered by NVIDIA A100, H100, and other high-performance GPUs for deep learning training
  and inference workloads.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lambda.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- Compute
- Deep Learning
- GPU
- Machine Learning
created: '2025-01-07'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lambda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: lambda:lambda-file-systems-api
  name: Lambda File Systems API
  description: Operations for managing persistent storage file systems.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - File Systems
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-file-systems-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
- aid: lambda:lambda-images-api
  name: Lambda Images API
  description: Operations for listing available machine images.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
- aid: lambda:lambda-instance-types-api
  name: Lambda Instance Types API
  description: Operations for listing available GPU instance types.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Instance Types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-instance-types-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
- aid: lambda:lambda-instances-api
  name: Lambda Instances API
  description: Operations for managing GPU cloud instances.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Instances
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-instances-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
- aid: lambda:lambda-ssh-keys-api
  name: Lambda SSH Keys API
  description: Operations for managing SSH keys.
  humanURL: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  baseURL: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - SSH Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lambda-ssh-keys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/cloud-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/lambda/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lambda-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/lambda-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/lambda-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lambda-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lambda-authentication.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://lambda.ai/cloud
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.lambda.ai/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/on-demand/getting-started/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/api/v1/docs
- type: Pricing
  url: https://lambda.ai/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://lambda.ai/blog
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.lambda.ai
- type: Support
  url: https://support.lambdalabs.com/hc/en-us
- type: Signup
  url: https://cloud.lambdalabs.com/sign-up
- type: SDKs
  url: https://pypi.org/project/lambda-cloud-client/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/LambdaLabsML
- type: Features
  data:
  - On-demand GPU cloud instances (A100, H100)
  - Persistent storage file systems
  - SSH key management
  - Jupyter notebook integration
  - RESTful API with API key authentication
  - Multiple region availability
  - Pre-installed deep learning frameworks
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - Training large language models and deep learning models
  - Running GPU-accelerated inference workloads
  - Provisioning ephemeral compute for ML experiments
  - Managing persistent datasets across training runs
  - Automating GPU infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - PyTorch
  - TensorFlow
  - JAX
  - Hugging Face
  - Jupyter Notebooks
  - NVIDIA CUDA
  - Docker
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/lambda-cloud-api-schema.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/lambda-context.jsonld
- type: Integrations
  url: https://lambda.ai/partners
integrations:
- name: Lambda
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com