gpu.ai
- Free allowance
- No free tier: a GPU marketplace that routes each launch to the cheapest connected provider, billed per second.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quotarows are per offering with an available count (for example 92 L40S units in us-central, 2 A100 80 GB in ca-central); capacity is pooled from other providers and a row with zero units is omitted by default
- Evidence
- documented14 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | no free tier: a GPU marketplace that routes each launch to the cheapest connected provider, billed per second. Live cheapest rows from its public pricing API on 2026-11-03: H100 SXM $3.99 an hour (1 GPU, us-east, 4 available); A100 80 GB $1.07 an hour (ca-central, 2 available), $1.23 (us-central) and $1.25 (us-east); L40S $0.80 an hour (us-central, 92 available) and $1.09 (eu-west). The same API call returned no RTX 4090 or L4 row with units available that day. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
capacity is aggregated from several providers, so the available count of a row changes between reads; the docs state the on-demand server can be shared with other tenants (each on their own GPU) |
| Binding | volume-quota each row has a small available count, so the live stock of a given GPU in a given region is the binding number, not a time cap |
| Identity | email (placeholder) unverified: the getting-started guide says to create an account and add credit, and a deposit page shows both card deposits and USDC deposits on five chains, so a stablecoin balance is an alternative to a card. The same guide says that during private beta the browser login is internal-only and a key must be requested from the team. No signup form was read, so email is the assumed minimum and card, phone and company checks are not established. |
| Egress | not stated in the pages read |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a GPU-hour, not an object |
| Retention | not stated in the pages read |
| Interface | rest, cli, ssh a REST API at api.gpu.ai/v1, a gpu CLI, Python and TypeScript SDKs and an MCP server; instances are reached over SSH. The catalog and pricing endpoints need no key. |
| Tooling | REST API (bearer key), the gpu CLI, official Python and TypeScript SDKs and an MCP server; an instance is created with POST /v1/instances and reached over SSH. Each pricing row carries deployment_type vm or container, a tier of on_demand or spot, and an available count. |
| Composes with | the pricing endpoint is public and priced live, so it can be polled without an account to find the cheapest A100 80 GB, L40S or H100 row before launching. |
| Reliability | unverified: the docs page is versioned V1 May 2026 and its samples were last checked against a demo environment on 2026-08-06; no status page or incident history was read |
| Notes | the same vendor also sells serverless token-metered inference and reserved multi-node clusters by quote; this record prices the on-demand GPU rows. |
| Evidence note | documented the prices are read from the vendor's own public pricing API on 2026-11-03; RTX 4090 and L4 appear only in the price index (reported) |
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Evidence 14
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | api.gpu.ai/v1/pricing?include_unavailable=false&limit=200 | the vendor's own pricing API lists an H100 SXM at $3.99 an hour, 1 GPU, us-east, 4 available |
| 2026-11-03 | api.gpu.ai/v1/pricing?include_unavailable=false&limit=200 | the vendor's own pricing API lists an A100 80 GB at $1.07 an hour in ca-central, 2 available |
| 2026-11-03 | api.gpu.ai/v1/pricing?include_unavailable=false&limit=200 | the vendor's own pricing API lists an L40S at $0.80 an hour in us-central, 92 available |
| 2026-11-03 | computeprices.com/providers/gpu | the price index lists an RTX 4090 at $0.89 an hour |
| 2026-11-03 | computeprices.com/providers/gpu | the price index lists an L4 at $0.59 an hour |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs/guides/getting-started | the first steps are an account and prepaid credit |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs/guides/getting-started | during the private beta a key is requested from the team |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs/guides/getting-started | the catalog and pricing endpoints are public and need no key |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs/guides/stablecoin-deposits | balance can be funded by crypto deposits as well as card deposits |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs/guides/gpu-instances | an instance bills by the second from boot until terminated |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/pricing | an on-demand GPU is dedicated to the renter, but the physical host is shared with other tenants |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs | the access surface is a REST API, SDKs and a CLI |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/docs | the docs list an MCP server for coding agents |
| 2026-11-03 | gpu.ai/ | the vendor aggregates capacity from other clouds |
Unknown values 1
- egress metered: egress metering was not published