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Lightning AI

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The AI development platform for building, training, and deploying AI models at scale

Free tier available·All audiences·Powered by Bring your own / Open source models·API available·Open source

Key strengths

On-demand guaranteed GPUs (including H200, B200)End-to-end ML workflow (build, train, optimize, evaluate, deploy)Enterprise-grade security (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR)PyTorch Lightning ecosystem (created by PyTorch Lightning creators)Bring-your-own-cloud / VPC support80 free GPU hours to start
Free tier + paid plans
New York, USA
Founded 2019
Self-hostable

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  • Model training at scale: Leverage on-demand guaranteed H200 and B200 GPUs billed by the second to run large distributed training jobs without queue delays.
  • End-to-end MLOps pipelines: Use Lightning AI's integrated build → train → optimize → evaluate → deploy workflow to manage the full model lifecycle in one platform.
  • BYOC / private deployments: Deploy within your own AWS or GCP VPC for data residency and compliance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR).
  • Programmatic orchestration: Automate training runs, evaluations, and deployments via the available API, integrating with S3, Lambda, Nebius, NScale, and other supported services.
  • Specialized model development: Fine-tune and deploy domain-specific models with access to the latest GPU hardware and the PyTorch Lightning ecosystem.
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