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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
One API to access leading LLM, image, video, and audio models with pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
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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
- ✦Single API for LLM, image, video, and audio models
- ✦Access to GPT, Claude, Gemini, Seedance, and more
- ✦Usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing
- ✦Model comparison and documented capabilities
- ✦Smart Router for model selection
- ✦99.9% uptime, no credit card to start
- ✦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
- ✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
- ✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
- ✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
- ✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
- ✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
- ✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment
- ✦Serverless GPU compute defined in Python
- ✦Sub-second container cold starts
- ✦Autoscale 0 to 1000+ GPUs
- ✦Inference, training and batch workloads
- ✦Secure sandboxes for untrusted code
- ✦Built-in logging and observability
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Add multiple AI models to a product via one API
- →Switch between model providers without rewrites
- →Generate video, images, and audio programmatically
- →Build AI agents and workflows
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
- →Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
- →Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
- →Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
- →Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes