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24 alternatives to Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs

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…

Shadeform is a GPU marketplace and provisioning platform that aggregates eight or more GPU providers into a single interface and API. Users can view live availability and pricing across the market, then deploy and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Shadeform – Single Platform and API for Provisioning GPUs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1TC

    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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    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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    Back in the old days, people used to do general-purpose GPU programming by using shaders like GLSL. This is what inspired NVIDIA (and other companies) to eventually create CUDA (and friends). This is an implementation of GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders. Enjoy!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GPU.LAND▲126

    Affordable cloud GPUs for deep learning

    2021 · vedge.cloud · its alternatives →

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    TensorFlow for AWS. Contribute to dsys/tensorflow development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7GC

    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 →

  8. 8SL

    Create, stack, and animate shader effects on images, video, text, and 3D models — free, in your browser, powered by WebGPU. Export video, publish to the community gallery, and remix any published scene.

    Apr 2026 · eng.basement.studio · its alternatives →

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    Real-time GPU shader editor for spatial computing

    2024 · shader.vision · its alternatives →

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    RunInfra▲156

    Describe the AI model you need and get an optimized AI

    Jul 2026 · runinfra.ai · its alternatives →

  11. 11CG

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

    2021 · gpu.land · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to use cloud GPUs

    2025 · tensorpool.dev · 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 →

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    Cerebrium▲300

    If you haven’t noticed, GPUs are scarce right now. The global boom in inference has demand growing faster than supply can keep up, and at Cerebrium ...

    2024 · cerebrium.ai · its alternatives →

  15. 15TG

    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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    ML dev tool that saves you up to 8x in cloud GPU costs

    2019 · 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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    Hi HN, We’re a small team of OS, virtualization, and ML engineers, and after three years of development, we’re thrilled to launch the beta of our CUDA abstraction layer! We decouple the Kernel Shader execution from applications that use CUDA into a Wooly Abstraction layer. In this abstraction layer, we compile these to a new binary, and Shaders are compiled into a Wooly Instruction Set. At runtime, Kernel Shader launch events initiate a transfer of Shader over the network from a CPU host to a GPU host, where they are recompiled. Their execution is managed by Wooly Server software to achieve…

    2025 · woolyai.com · its alternatives →

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    Deep Learning Everywhere, For Everyone

    2017 · nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    Demo of agent based model on GPU with CUDA and OpenGL (Windows/Linux) Agent instances on GPU memory Uses SSBO for instanced objects (with GLSL 450 shaders) CUDA OpenGL interops Renders with GLFW3 window manager Dynamic camera views in OpenGL (pan,zoom with mouse) Libraries installed using vcpkg (https://github.com/KienTTran/ABMGPU)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generative art on the GPU

    2022 · apps.apple.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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    I built a site to compare on-demand GPU prices across different providers and regions. Hopefully, it'll be helpful for ML developers and researchers.

    2025 · gpurates.ai · its alternatives →

  24. 24PO

    Our company Vertex.AI has been working on this for a while but this is the first public release. We're starting with using PlaidML to bring OpenCL support to Keras and more frameworks, platforms, etc are coming. Yes, this means you can use use your AMD GPU for deep learning dev. Sorry, no Mac or Windows support yet although the brave can try building from source (it should work). http://vertex.ai/blog/announcing-plaidml https://github.com/plaidml/plaidml

    2017 · its alternatives →

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