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Pay-per-use API hub aggregating 1000+ image, video, and audio generation models for developers building AI media pipelines.
Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
Cloud platform to run open-source AI apps like ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion and train LoRAs on rented GPUs, billed hourly.
Serverless AI cloud for running inference, training and sandboxes on GPUs with fast cold starts and pay-per-use billing.
Low-cost inference cloud with developer APIs to run open ML models and on-demand GPUs, billed pay-per-use.
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Free trial available
No public pricing
- ✦Unified API access to 1000+ image/video/audio generation models
- ✦Pay-per-use pricing billed per image or per second of video
- ✦Includes chat/LLM model access (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) priced per token
- ✦Account tiers unlock higher GPU limits and concurrency
- ✦CLI and desktop app for building workflows
- ✦Enterprise options with dedicated support and custom deployment
- ✦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
- ✦Pre-installed open-source AI apps (ComfyUI, SD, Fooocus)
- ✦LoRA and custom model training
- ✦Image, video, audio, and LLM workflows
- ✦Hourly GPU rental across several tiers
- ✦Private storage and shareable workflows
- ✦No-deployment, browser-based access
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Integrating AI image/video generation into an app via API
- →Building automated content pipelines needing multiple AI models
- →Testing and comparing many generative models from one account
- →Scaling AI media production with volume-based account tiers
- →Accessing both media-generation and LLM APIs from one platform
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Running ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion without a local GPU
- →Training custom LoRA models
- →Face swapping and voice conversion
- →Generating images, video, and audio at scale
- →Deploying and scaling model inference
- →Fine-tuning and training models
- →Running batch/parallel AI jobs
- →Executing untrusted code in sandboxes
- →Serving open-source models via API
- →Building AI apps cost-efficiently
- →Renting GPUs for inference or training
- →Scaling inference up and down on demand