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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
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Claude
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Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K 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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Modal
✓ 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
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
Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
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
Starter: $0/mo + compute ($30 free credit)
Team: $250/mo + compute

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • Conversational writing and editing
  • Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Web search plus memory across chats
  • Connectors and remote MCP integrations
  • Extended thinking for complex tasks
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Serving open models in production apps and agents
  • Fine-tuning models on private data
  • Powering code assistants, chatbots and RAG at scale
  • 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
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