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Lambda alternative in Canada: dedicated Blackwell GPUs in Toronto
Lambda is a GPU cloud with on-demand instances by the hour and reserved clusters of 16 to 2,000 or more GPUs, from two weeks to over a year. TorontoGPU is two rigs in Toronto, 12 GPUs, and each GPU is reserved to one customer at a time, by the month, in Canadian dollars. If you need a few GPUs for an afternoon, or a cluster for a quarter, Lambda is the right tool. If you need the same GPUs every day for months, want to know where they sit, and want Canadian data residency you can put in a contract, keep reading.
Side by side
| Lambda | TorontoGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| B200 | US$7.69/hr, per GPU on an 8-GPU instance, list from 16 November 2026, read 2026-11-11 | Dedicated RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96 GB), reserved by the month: a CAD quote by capacity and term |
| H100 | US$4.59/hr, per GPU on an 8-GPU instance, list from 16 November 2026, read 2026-11-11 | One card type: RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96 GB), 12 GPUs across 2 rigs |
| A100 80 GB | US$3.19/hr, per GPU on an 8-GPU instance, list from 16 November 2026, read 2026-11-11 | One card type: RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96 GB), 12 GPUs across 2 rigs |
| Where it runs | Lambda's cloud; see Lambda's pages for regions | One site in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian owned and operated |
| Billing | By the hour, USD | By the month, CAD |
| Access | Lambda's instances and tooling | Bare metal or containers, direct SSH, the GPUs are yours alone for the month |
| Support | Lambda's support channels | The owner-operator, by email, Toronto business hours |
| SLA | See Lambda's terms | No multi-region failover and no 99.99% SLA; we confirm the setup meets your requirement before you reserve |
| Availability today | On demand | Fully rented; the waitlist is open |
Lambda's prices are its own public list prices in US dollars, per GPU on an 8-GPU instance, list from 16 November 2026, read on 2026-11-11 at lambda.com/pricing. They change; check the page. TorontoGPU prices are a monthly CAD quote by capacity and term, never an hourly rate.
What Lambda does better
On-demand B200, H100 and A100 by the hour in 1, 2, 4 and 8-GPU instances, and reserved clusters from 16 GPUs up. Capacity at a scale we do not have. We have one card type, one site, and both rigs are rented today.
What TorontoGPU does differently
The GPUs are dedicated: 96 GB of GDDR7 per card, yours alone for the month, bare metal or containers, direct SSH. The hardware sits at one site in Toronto, which makes a data residency clause a one-line fact rather than a region setting. You email the person who runs the rigs. And if you would rather own the node, we spec, source and install it at your site.
Switching from Lambda
Tell us what you run on Lambda: the GPU count, the container images, the storage you mount, and how many hours a month the GPUs are actually busy. We quote a reserved month in CAD; you multiply your hours by Lambda's hourly price and compare the two numbers yourself.
Questions
Is TorontoGPU cheaper than Lambda?
Not by the hour, and we do not pretend to be. Lambda's lowest row above is the A100 80 GB at US$3.19 an hour, per GPU on an 8-GPU instance, list from 16 November 2026, read 2026-11-11. We reserve one card type by the month in CAD and quote on request; a reserved month beats it once the hours you would pay Lambda for cost more than our month.
Is my data in Canada?
Rented GPU compute and workload storage are physically in Toronto, Ontario. Regulated, health, financial or personal data needs written approval and appropriate safeguards first. We put that in writing before you reserve.
Can I start today?
Not today. Both rigs are rented and the waitlist is open. Send the number of GPUs, the workload and your timing and we confirm when an opening fits.
What if it does not work out?
Month to month. Cancel any time; it takes effect at the end of the paid month, and prepaid future months are refunded. The current month is not prorated.
Write to the operator
Email support@torontogpu.com with your GPU count and timing, or hold your place on the waitlist.
Rival prices, where shown, are public list prices read on the date shown, in US dollars, and may have changed since.