Runpod

Runpod is a GPU cloud platform designed for building, training, and deploying AI workloads with granular, usage-based billing. It provides on-demand access to powerful NVIDIA GPUs across multiple regions, allowing users to spin up GPU instances in seconds for tasks such as large language model training, fine-tuning, inference, computer vision, and scientific computing. Runpod offers both serverless GPU endpoints and persistent cloud workspaces (Pods) with popular frameworks pre-configured, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX. Developers can deploy custom containers, use templates from the community, or integrate directly via API to scale inference backends for production AI applications.

The platform targets AI engineers, data scientists, researchers, and startups that need high-performance compute without managing infrastructure. Features like autoscaling, spot and community GPUs, volume storage, and secure networking help optimize cost and performance. Runpod also supports collaborative environments, letting teams share templates and configurations. With millisecond-level billing and cancel-anytime sessions, it is well-suited for experimentation, rapid prototyping, and bursty workloads. Its combination of flexible GPU access, developer-friendly tooling, and cost transparency makes it a practical alternative to managing on-premise GPUs or complex cloud configurations.