About Vast.ai
Vast.ai is a marketplace for renting GPU compute. Hosts list their hardware, and customers search by GPU model and other filters to rent machines for AI training, inference, fine-tuning, rendering and other GPU work.
Prices are set by supply and demand across the listed GPUs and can be queried programmatically, and billing is per second. Developers can provision through a console, a command-line tool, a Python SDK or an API, and the vendor says the service is meant for AI agents as well as people. Products include GPU cloud, clusters, serverless and a model library, and a hosting program lets owners of data centers and hardware earn by renting capacity.
Vast.ai is a proprietary commercial service. Customers add prepaid credit and pay for what they use, with no contract or sales call required. The site lists SOC 2 certification and offers an enterprise path and a startup program.
Key features
- Marketplace of rentable GPUs
- Real-time pricing set by supply and demand
- Per-second billing
- CLI, Python SDK and API provisioning
- Serverless and cluster options
- Hosting program for hardware owners
Good fit for
- →Low-cost GPU rental for fine-tuning
- →Batch data processing on rented GPUs
- →Earning revenue from spare GPU capacity
- Tags
- gpu-cloud
- gpu-marketplace
- ai-training
- ai-inference
- rendering
- cloud
- cli
- ai-infrastructure
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