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24 alternatives to dstack Sky

Get GPUs at competitive rates from a pool of providers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. dstack Sky launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    dstack is a unified control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works with any GPU cloud, Kubernetes, or on-prem clusters.

    2024 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    dstack▲190

    Cost-effective LLM development

    2023 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    dstack is a unified control plane for GPU provisioning and orchestration that works with any GPU cloud, Kubernetes, or on-prem clusters.

    2020 · dstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Greetings HN! This is Doruk from Oblivus, and I'm excited to announce the launch of our platform, Oblivus Cloud. After more than a year of beta testing, we're excited to offer you a platform where you can deploy affordable and scalable GPU virtual machines in as little as 30 seconds! https://oblivus.com/cloud - What sets Oblivus Cloud apart? At the start of our journey, we had two primary goals in mind: to democratize High-Performance Computing and make it as straightforward as possible. We understand that maintaining GPU servers through major cloud service providers can be…

    2023 · oblivus.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, YC w24 company here. We just pivoted from drone delivery to build gpudeploy.com, a website that routes on-demand traffic for GPU instances to idle compute resources. The experience is similar to lambda labs, which we’ve really enjoyed for training our robotics models, but their GPUs are never available for on-demand. We are also trying to make it more no-nonsense (no hidden fees, no H100 behind “contact sales”, etc.). The tech to make this work is actually kind of nifty, we may do an in-depth HN post on that soon. Right now, we have H100s, a few RTX 4090s and a GTX 1080 Ti online.…

    2024 · gpudeploy.com · its alternatives →

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    vEdge is a GPU cloud compute platform making computing affordable and accessible.

    2021 · gpu.land · its alternatives →

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    Compare GPU rental prices across cloud providers

    5d ago · gpu.context.dev · its alternatives →

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    We developed a tool to trick your computer into thinking it’s attached to a GPU which actually sits across a network. This allows you to switch the number or type of GPUs you’re using with a single command.

    2024 · thundercompute.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core Why? Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds. We thought to…

    2022 · tensordock.com · its alternatives →

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    GPUDeploy▲197

    Airbnb for GPUs

    2024 · gpudeploy.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we are Ed, Zach, and Ronald, creators of Shadeform (https://www.shadeform.ai/), a GPU marketplace to see live availability and prices across the GPU market, as well as to deploy and reserve on-demand instances. We have aggregated 8+ GPU providers into a single platform and API, so you can easily provision instances like A100s and H100s where they are available. From our experience working at AWS and Azure, we believe that cloud could evolve from all-encompassing hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to specialized clouds for high-performance use cases. After the launch of…

    2023 · shadeform.ai · its alternatives →

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    GPU.LAND▲126

    Affordable cloud GPUs for deep learning

    2021 · vedge.cloud · its alternatives →

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    gpu share, free, runsnack

    Aug 2026 · runsnack.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy to use and fairly priced GPUs for Machine Learning

    2019 · clevergrid.io · its alternatives →

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    We built installable software for Windows & Linux that makes any remote Nvidia GPU accessible to, and shareable across, any number of remote clients running local applications, all over standard networking.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An on-premises, bare-metal solution for deploying GPU-powered applications in containers - emergingstack/es-dev-stack

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19TG

    Hey folks! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock, and we’re building a cloud GPU marketplace. We want to make GPUs truly affordable and accessible. I once started a web hosting service on self-hosted servers in middle school. But building servers isn’t the same as selling cloud. There’s a lot of open source software to manage your homelab for side projects, but there isn’t anything to commercialize that. Large cloud providers charge obscene prices — so much so that they can often pay back their hardware in under 6 months with 24x7 utilization. We are building the software that allows anyone to become…

    2024 · dashboard.tensordock.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi. :) I’m Andrey, the creator of dstack. I started this project while I was working at JetBrains where I helped the PyCharm team to improve support for Jupyter notebooks. As I was in close contact with many ML devs (who used PyCharm) I was able to see their struggle with running ML workflows. Unlike traditional dev workflows, ML workflows are difficult to run on a local machine (due to the lack of memory, more CPUs/GPUs, etc). This is why people often have to use remote machines (e.g. via SSH), or adopt one of the end-to-end MLOps platforms. Using remote machines is not difficult but…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to play my Steam games but my aging PC couldn’t keep up, so I built Cloudy Pad - a tool to run Steam in the Cloud (GitHub: https://github.com/PierreBeucher/cloudypad) It runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, Scaleway and Paperspace with various cost optimizations and safeties: - Cost alerts - Auto stop inactive instances to avoid unwanted cost - Disk snapshots and data cleanup for cost efficiency - Spot instance support Under the hood: a Linux VM and a container running Sunshine (a streaming server https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) with Steam. Most…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We’ve launched a GPU cloud platform offering on-demand access to high-end GPUs — with pricing starting at $0.79/hr, no queue, and no preemption. What we offer: - On-demand H100, H200, and B200 instances - H200 pricing from $0.79/hr - Multi-region support: US, Singapore, and Europe - No queuing, no bidding, and no interruptions - Used by AI startups, researchers, and open-source developers Try it: https://hpc-ai.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&ut... We built this after facing our own frustrations with high prices and long wait times on other…

    2025 · hpc-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    Superficially, it may look similar to Nvidia's Warp or OpenAI's Triton, but instead of transpiling a subset of Python to the target language, it implements dynamic codegen in pure Python. These slides discuss the existing GPU programming solutions and make a case for Metashade's approach: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQtYIwXIkMnV...

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple scheduler for running jobs on GPUs. Contribute to ExpectationMax/simple_gpu_scheduler development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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