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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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Lightning AI
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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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Fireworks AI
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Developer platform for fast serverless inference and training of open generative models, billed per token or GPU-second.

611K visits/mo1.3K saves
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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
Pricing
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute

No public pricing

On-Demand H100/H200: $7/GPU-hour
On-Demand B200: $10/GPU-hour
On-Demand B300: $12/GPU-hour
Fine-tuning (LoRA SFT, models up to 16B): from $0.50 per 1M training tokens
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

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Deploying and scaling model inference
  • Fine-tuning and training models
  • Running batch/parallel AI jobs
  • Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
  • Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
  • Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
  • Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
  • Serving open models in production apps and agents
  • Fine-tuning models on private data
  • Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
  • 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
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