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✓ verifiedFreemium

Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.

988K visits/mo
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CometAPI
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Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.

363K visits/mo4.8K 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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Groq
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast, low-cost AI inference provider running LLMs on custom LPU chips via GroqCloud's pay-as-you-go API.

3.6M visits/mo
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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
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute
Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10
GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens

Free trial available

No public pricing

GPT-OSS 20B: $0.075 per 1M input tokens ($0.30 per 1M output)
GPT-OSS 120B: $0.15 per 1M input tokens
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
Core features
  • 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
  • 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.)
  • 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
  • LPU custom inference hardware
  • GroqCloud tokens-as-a-service API
  • High-speed, low-latency inference
  • Pay-as-you-go token pricing
  • Free API key to start
  • Broad open-model support
  • 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%
Use cases
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
  • Switching models without re-integration
  • Powering apps and automation pipelines
  • Benchmarking models in one playground
  • 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
  • Running LLM inference at high speed
  • Cutting inference costs at scale
  • Powering low-latency AI chat apps
  • Serving models via a hosted API
  • Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
  • Run scalable inference workloads
  • Store and manage large training datasets
  • Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines
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