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Lightning AIPricing change · Price increase · May 18 → May 25, 2026

Lightning AI raises L40S interruptible GPU rates by $0.01/hr

Verified May 25, 2026AI & Machine LearningDirection: up
The changeGPU price — price increase.
Before · May 18$2.15
After · May 25$1.80
−16%
1 change2 capturesMay 18, 2026 → May 25, 2026

What happened

Between the May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026 captures of Lightning AI's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: L40S interruptible GPU price increased from $1.79/$2.15 to $1.80/$2.16 per GPU/hr (both standard and spot interruptible rates raised by $0.01). Pulse files it as a pricing change (price increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Jul 13, 2026) lists Pro at $20 and Teams at $119.

This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Lightning AI. Lightning AI has been tracked since 2026-05-14.

In the same window Huggingface, Paper and Modal also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.

  • GPU · Price−16%
    $2.15$1.80

Values as written on Lightning AI's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.

Evidence

The two captures Pulse compared

Full-page captures of Lightning AI's pricing page (lightning.ai) from May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where gpu price reads $2.15 and then $1.80.

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Lightning AI, pricing history

Full history
  1. Jun 15, 2026increaseLightning AI hikes H100 GPU price 76% to $3.50/hr, A100 up 70%
  2. Jun 9, 2026increaseLightning AI raises spot GPU prices, adds TPU compute option
  3. Jun 1, 2026increaseLightning AI raises H200 GPU pricing 86%, cuts L40S to $2.14/hr
  4. May 25, 2026increaseLightning AI raises L40S interruptible GPU rates by $0.01/hr · this change

Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window

All AI & Machine Learning changes
  1. HuggingfaceMay 25Huggingface adds NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPU to AWS Inference Endpoints
  2. PaperMay 19Paper cuts Pro image generation from daily to weekly limits
  3. ModalMay 19Modal rebrands plan features as Scheduled and Web Functions

Questions about this change

Did Lightning AI raise prices in May 2026?

Yes. Pulse captured Lightning AI's pricing page on May 18, 2026 and again on May 25, 2026 and recorded 1 price increase: GPU: $2.15 → $1.80 (−16%).

What changed on Lightning AI's pricing page between May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026?

GPU price: $2.15 → $1.80 (−16%). Pulse compared the captures it took on May 18, 2026 and May 25, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.

How often does Lightning AI change its pricing?

Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Lightning AI in the 90 days before this one; Lightning AI has been tracked since 2026-05-14.