lambda-labs-gpu-cloud

Guidance for using Lambda Labs, a cloud service offering dedicated and on-demand GPU machines. These machines can be accessed over SSH and can keep files between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run training or inference on individual GPUs, keep persistent data, and create multi-machine clusters with a pre-installed machine-learning software stack.
Why use it?
It provides a straightforward environment for long-running or large training jobs without requiring you to assemble GPU hardware yourself.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chemany/mente/lambda-labs
Any agent
npx skills add chemany/Mente --skill lambda-labs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemany/Mente

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,280 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00047 $0.03280
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01640
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00656
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00328

Measured 2d ago against content hash 41022fa7d143, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

lambda-labs-gpu-cloud scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

echo 'ssh-rsa AAAA...' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

## CLI with curl
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to lambda-labs-gpu-cloud — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/mlops/lambda-labs/SKILL.md · 549 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 549 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lambda Labs GPU Cloud

Comprehensive guide to running ML workloads on Lambda Labs GPU cloud with on-demand instances and 1-Click Clusters.

When to use Lambda Labs

Use Lambda Labs when:

  • Need dedicated GPU instances with full SSH access
  • Running long training jobs (hours to days)
  • Want simple pricing with no egress fees
  • Need persistent storage across sessions
  • Require high-performance multi-node clusters (16-512 GPUs)
  • Want pre-installed ML stack (Lambda Stack with PyTorch, CUDA, NCCL)

Key features:

  • GPU variety: B200, H100, GH200, A100, A10, A6000, V100
  • Lambda Stack: Pre-installed PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL
  • Persistent filesystems: Keep data across instance restarts
  • 1-Click Clusters: 16-512 GPU Slurm clusters with InfiniBand
  • Simple pricing: Pay-per-minute, no egress fees
  • Global regions: 12+ regions worldwide

Use alternatives instead:

  • Modal: For serverless, auto-scaling workloads
  • SkyPilot: For multi-cloud orchestration and cost optimization
  • RunPod: For cheaper spot instances and serverless endpoints
  • Vast.ai: For GPU marketplace with lowest prices

Quick start

Account setup

  1. Create account at https://lambda.ai
  2. Add payment method
  3. Generate API key from dashboard
  4. Add SSH key (required before launching instances)

Launch via console

  1. Go to https://cloud.lambda.ai/instances
  2. Click "Launch instance"
  3. Select GPU type and region
  4. Choose SSH key
  5. Optionally attach filesystem
  6. Launch and wait 3-15 minutes

Connect via SSH

# Get instance IP from console
ssh ubuntu@<INSTANCE-IP>

# Or with specific key
ssh -i ~/.ssh/lambda_key ubuntu@<INSTANCE-IP>

GPU instances

Available GPUs

GPU VRAM Price/GPU/hr Best For
B200 SXM6 180 GB $4.99 Largest models, fastest training
H100 SXM 80 GB $2.99-3.29 Large model training
H100 PCIe 80 GB $2.49 Cost-effective H100
GH200 96 GB $1.49 Single-GPU large models
A100 80GB 80 GB $1.79 Production training
A100 40GB 40 GB $1.29 Standard training
A10 24 GB $0.75 Inference, fine-tuning
A6000 48 GB $0.80 Good VRAM/price ratio
V100 16 GB $0.55 Budget training

Read the full file on GitHub · 549 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 549 lines · 47 tokens per session scan C 41022fa7d143

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lambda-labs-gpu-cloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository chemany/Mente (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,280 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, makes network calls). It is 95% identical to lambda-labs-gpu-cloud, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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