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Lightning  AI logo
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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Vast ai
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GPU rental marketplace with per-second billing across thousands of GPUs, aimed at AI training, inference, and fine-tuning workloads.

1.4M visits/mo
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Atlas Cloud
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Unified pay-per-use API serving 400+ multimodal AI models (image, video, audio, 3D, LLM) through one OpenAI-compatible key.

958K visits/mo
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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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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.

1.3M visits/mo17K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Seedance 2.0 video: from $0.09/sec
GPT Image 2: from $0.009/image
Nano Banana 2: from $0.04/image

No public pricing

CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)

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Core features
  • 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 cloud with per-second billing
  • Interruptible instances at discounted rates for batch/fault-tolerant jobs
  • Reserved capacity with 1, 3, or 6-month terms for steady workloads
  • Serverless deployment with autoscale-to-zero for inference endpoints
  • Dedicated multi-node clusters with InfiniBand for large-scale training
  • Python SDK and CLI plus REST API for programmatic provisioning
  • Access to 68+ GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Pre-configured templates for popular open-source models
  • 400+ AI models via one unified API
  • Multimodal coverage: image, video, audio, 3D, LLM
  • On-demand, pay-per-use pricing
  • Day-0 access to new state-of-the-art models
  • OpenAI-compatible single key
  • SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, 99.99% uptime
  • 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-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
  • Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
  • Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
  • Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
  • Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
  • Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
Use cases
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • ML engineers training or fine-tuning models on rented GPUs
  • Startups running inference at scale without owning hardware
  • Developers needing quick, low-cost access to specific GPU types
  • Teams building AI agents that autonomously provision compute
  • Integrate video and image generation
  • Access many LLMs through one API
  • Build multimodal AI applications
  • Batch generate and prototype cheaply
  • Serving open-source models via API
  • Building AI apps cost-efficiently
  • Renting GPUs for inference or training
  • Scaling inference up and down on demand
  • Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
  • Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
  • Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
  • Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
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