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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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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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OpenRouter
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Unified API gateway that routes requests to 400+ LLMs across 70+ providers with failover and no subscription.

17M 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
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ZenMux
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Enterprise unified API gateway giving one integration point to 100+ LLMs like Claude, GPT, and Gemini with reliability guarantees.

435K visits/mo11K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (free models only, 50 requests/day)
Pay-as-you-go: 5.5% platform fee on inference
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)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • 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 unified, OpenAI-compatible API for 400+ models
  • Automatic provider failover for higher uptime
  • Edge routing for low latency
  • Custom data and provider policies
  • Pay-as-you-go credits usable across any model
  • 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
  • Unified API for 100+ AI models
  • Intelligent request routing across models
  • AI Model Insurance for quality/reliability guarantees
  • Enterprise-focused LLM access layer
Use cases
  • 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
  • Serving open-source models via API
  • Building AI apps cost-efficiently
  • Renting GPUs for inference or training
  • Scaling inference up and down on demand
  • Accessing many LLMs through one integration
  • Adding provider redundancy to AI apps
  • Comparing model price and performance
  • Powering agents and AI-native products
  • 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
  • Building applications that need failover across multiple LLM providers
  • Consolidating billing/access to many AI models under one API
  • Enterprises requiring guaranteed model output reliability
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