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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Single API and playground for 1000+ AI models (chat, image, video, audio) with pay-as-you-go billing.
Cloud platform to run open-source AI apps like ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion and train LoRAs on rented GPUs, billed hourly.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
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- ✦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
- ✦One API for 1000+ models
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoints
- ✦Chat, image, video, audio and embedding models
- ✦AI playground/sandbox
- ✦Pay-as-you-go billing across models
- ✦Enterprise dedicated infrastructure option
- ✦Pre-installed open-source AI apps (ComfyUI, SD, Fooocus)
- ✦LoRA and custom model training
- ✦Image, video, audio, and LLM workflows
- ✦Hourly GPU rental across several tiers
- ✦Private storage and shareable workflows
- ✦No-deployment, browser-based access
- ✦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
- ✦On-demand GPU pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Integrating many AI models via one API
- →Prototyping and scaling AI apps
- →Cost-controlled multi-model access
- →Running ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion without a local GPU
- →Training custom LoRA models
- →Face swapping and voice conversion
- →Generating images, video, and audio at scale
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads