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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
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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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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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Runpod
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Developer-focused GPU cloud offering on-demand pods, serverless inference and multi-node clusters at per-second pricing for AI workloads.
2.3M visits/mo
Pricing
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
No public pricing
No public pricing
Pods A40 48GB: $0.44/hr
Pods RTX 4090 24GB: $0.69/hr
Pods A100 SXM 80GB: $1.49/hr
Pods H100 SXM 80GB: $2.99/hr
Pods H200 141GB: $4.39/hr
Pods B300 288GB: $7.39/hr
Core features
- ✦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%
- ✦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
- ✦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 pods across 30+ GPU types and 31 regions
- ✦Serverless GPU endpoints with sub-200ms cold starts
- ✦Zero idle cost billing for inference workloads
- ✦Multi-node clusters for distributed training
- ✦Persistent network storage for full pipelines
- ✦Real-time logs, monitoring and autoscaling from 0 to hundreds of workers
Use cases
- →Train large AI/ML models on GPU clusters
- →Run scalable inference workloads
- →Store and manage large training datasets
- →Run Slurm/Kubernetes AI pipelines
- →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
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Renting GPUs for model training and fine-tuning
- →Deploying low-latency real-time inference APIs
- →Running AI agents that need to scale instantly
- →Processing compute-heavy batch or distributed workloads
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