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Nebius
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AI-focused cloud offering NVIDIA GPU compute, storage and MLOps tooling for training and inference at scale, with usage-based pricing.
678K visits/mo133K saves
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Lightning AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Deep Infra
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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
375K visits/mo
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DeepSeek
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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
Pricing
NVIDIA H100: $3.85/GPU-hour on-demand ($2.15 preemptible)
NVIDIA H200: $4.50/GPU-hour on-demand
NVIDIA B200: $7.15/GPU-hour on-demand
Shared filesystem storage: $0.08/GiB per month
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Core features
- ✦NVIDIA GPU instances (H100, H200, B200, GB200)
- ✦On-demand and preemptible GPU pricing
- ✦High-performance and object storage
- ✦Managed Kubernetes and Slurm (Soperator)
- ✦Serverless and managed inference (Token Factory)
- ✦MLOps tooling and 24/7 expert support
- ✦Commitment discounts up to 35%
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦Hosted inference for many open models
- ✦Simple REST/OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-per-token or per-time billing
- ✦On-demand GPU rental
- ✦Broad catalog (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, etc.)
- ✦DeepStart and DeepCluster tooling
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
Use cases
- →Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
- →Run scalable inference workloads
- →Store and manage large training datasets
- →Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
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