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Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.
Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.
Unified pay-per-generation API for 500+ image, video and audio models like FLUX, Kling and Seedance at low cost.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦One key for 500+ models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
- ✦Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
- ✦Usage analytics and budget alerts
- ✦Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)
- ✦Serverless per-token inference with OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs
- ✦On-demand dedicated and reserved GPU deployments
- ✦Fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training pipelines
- ✦Large library of open LLM, vision, image and audio models
- ✦Optimized inference engine for throughput and latency
- ✦Single API for 500+ image, video and audio models
- ✦Pay-per-generation billing with no subscription
- ✦No charge on failed tasks
- ✦Workflows, agents and studio tools
- ✦MCP and CLI integrations, white-label option
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
- →Switching models without re-integration
- →Powering apps and automation pipelines
- →Benchmarking models in one playground
- →Serving open models in production apps and agents
- →Fine-tuning models on private data
- →Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
- →Building apps on top of many generative models via one API
- →Generating images, video and audio at scale
- →Cutting model API costs versus direct providers
- →Deploying white-label AI generation studios