# Lambda

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lambda/  
**Website:** https://lambda.ai/cloud  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 49.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 49.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 63.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Lambda File Systems API** — Operations for managing persistent storage file systems.
- **Lambda Images API** — Operations for listing available machine images.
- **Lambda Instance Types API** — Operations for listing available GPU instance types.
- **Lambda Instances API** — Operations for managing GPU cloud instances.
- **Lambda SSH Keys API** — Operations for managing SSH keys.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lambda Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 5 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Lambda Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Lambda Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Lambda Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Lambda Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017

## Plans (1)

- **Lambda Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Compute, Deep Learning, GPU, Machine-Learning

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lambda/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.