Free
$0
Built for students and hobbyists
Up to 30 credits to start
- Up to 2 seats
- Up to 2 concurrent GPUs
- 50GB of persistent storage
- Pay as you go
- 32 core CPUs
- Single GPUs
- 1 free Studio with 4 hour restarts
- Up to 80% off on interruptible
H100·2,048AVAILABLEA100·3,072AVAILABLEL40S·1,536AVAILABLE
H200·1,024AVAILABLEL4·4,096AVAILABLE
H100·896AVAILABLE
T4·6,144AVAILABLE
A100·1,280AVAILABLEH200·512AVAILABLEL40S·768AVAILABLEL4·2,304AVAILABLEH100·640AVAILABLEFrom the PyTorch Lightning creators
Get up to 50 free GPU hours.
Then pay-as-you-go.
Start on the free tier with 50* free GPU hours. Pay as you go for more hours. Upgrade for enterprise features like bring your own cloud, use your AWS/GCP credits, SOC2, HIPAA, and 24/7 support.
Run 1 Studio free 24/7**. No credit card. No commitments.
Get started free*Prices vary **Free Studios run 24/7 but require restart every 4 hours.
No restrictions in Pro or higher.
- Default (CPU)16 GBFree
- Large (CPU)32 GB$0.51/hr
- X-Large (CPU)64 GB$0.99/hr
- Data prep128 GB$2.22/hr
- Data prep max256 GB$3.60/hr
- Data prep ultra384 GB$4.79/hr
- T416 GB$0.55/hr
- L424 GB$0.79/hr
- L40S48 GB$3.54/hr
- RTXP 600096 GB$4.64/hr
- A10040 GB$2.19/hr
- H10080 GB$5.45/hr
- H200141 GB$4.50/hr
- L424 GB$1.19/hr
- RTXP 600096 GB$4.71/hr
- A10040 GB$2.19/hr
- H10080 GB$5.45/hr
- H200141 GB$4.50/hr
- T416 GB$0.88/hr
- L424 GB$1.20/hr
- L40S48 GB$2.97/hr
- RTXP 600096 GB$4.66/hr
- A10040 GB$2.19/hr
- H10080 GB$5.45/hr
- H200141 GB$4.50/hr
- L424 GB$1.25/hr
- L40S48 GB$4.21/hr
- RTXP 600096 GB$4.63/hr
- A10040 GB$2.19/hr
- H10080 GB$5.82/hr
- H200141 GB$4.50/hr
- B200180 GB$9.86/hr
- 1 TPU32 GB$3.05/hr
- 4 TPU32 GB$3.03/hr
- 8 TPU32 GB$3.03/hr
- 8 TPU95 GB$4.72/hr
Reserve A100, H100, H200, B200 clusters on baremetal, SLURM or Kubernetes.
InquireBilled by the second. Free hours plus up to 30 credits to start.
Start small, Scale big
From solo projects to Enterprise AI,
choose a plan that grows with you.
Pro
Save 60%Academic pricing$50/mo$50$2010/mo
Built for developers and researchers
- 240 annual credits100 annual credits
- Up to 5 seats
- Up to 6 concurrent GPUs
- 200GB of persistent storage
- All Free features
- 64 core CPUs
- Multi GPUs
- 1 free 24/7 Studio
- Connect your S3 buckets
- Distributed data prep
- Reserve machines for jobs
Teams
Most popularSave 15%$140/mo$140$119/mo
Built for research labs and teams
- 600 annual credits
- Up to 10 seats
- Up to 12 concurrent GPUs
- 2TB of persistent storage
- All Pro features
- 96 core CPUs
- Full-node GPUs
- Multi-node training
- Use via AWS marketplace
- Real-time cost controls
- Spending limits
Enterprise
Custom
Built for security-first organizations
- Custom credits
- Unlimited seats
- Unlimited concurrent GPUs
- Unlimited persistent storage
- All Teams features
- Priority GPU access
- Instant access to H200s
- Use your AWS or GCP credits
- Use your own VPC and images
- Role-based access controls
- SAML/SSO and SOC 2 Type 2
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Dedicated Slack and ML Engineer
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GPU & CPU ceilings, credits, cost controls
Free credits
Up to 30
40 monthly / 240 annually
50 monthly / 600 annually
Custom
Max GPUs per Studio
1
4
8
8
Max concurrent GPUs
2
6
12
Unlimited
A100, H100, H200 session limit
4 hours
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Max CPUs per Studio
32
64
192
192
Reserve machines for jobs
Organization level cloud cost management
Use your own AWS or GCP account
Free active CPU Studios
1
1
1
1
Free active CPU Studio session limit
4 hours
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Max inactive Studios
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Additional CPU/GPU credits
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go
Bulk pricing
T4, L4, L40S session limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Cloud providers
All
All
All
All
Interruptible instances
Change Studio between CPU and GPUs
Use without an AWS or GCP account
Basic cloud cost management
Set up a custom machine
Studio runtime
IDEs, notebooks, SSH, auto-sleep
Ready-to-code (no CUDA setup, etc...)
Build templates with Base Studios
1
1
1
Unlimited
Customize auto sleep behavior
Auto switch to CPU when inactive
Advanced configuration for Base Studios
Bring your own images
Connect internal pip/conda mirrors
Custom resource tagging
Setup once, reuse any time
Code from the browser
Connect local IDE (VSCode, PyCharm, ...)
Notebooks on the browser
Sudo access
Terminal access
Connect via SSH
Background execution limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Monitor system metrics real-time
Studio auto sleep
Data
Buckets, storage limits, dataset tooling
Persistent storage limit
50 GB
200 GB
2 TB
Unlimited
Free storage
10 GB
10 GB
10 GB
10 GB
Additional storage
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go
Unlimited
Connect S3, GCS and R2 buckets
High-performance storage (EFS/Filestore)
Visualize/explore datasets
Upload data
Create cloud-agnostic folders
Collaboration
Teamspaces, org management, seats
Seat price
$0
$0
$140 per user/month
Custom
Auto join
Multiplayer live collaboration
Teamspaces
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Private shared file system
Control data access
Create organizations
Publish private Studios
Publish public Studios
Credits Auto-Reload
AI workflows
Training, data prep, endpoints, model APIs
Multi-node training (max GPUs)
6
12
Unlimited
Distributed data prep (max CPU machines)
4
32
Unlimited
Model APIs req/min
15
20
30
Custom
Model APIs tok/min
120,000
120,000
150,000
Custom
Build your own Quests
Add your own plugins
Design your own ML platform
Enterprise AI Hub add-on
Public models
Private models
Community templates
Pretrain, finetune models
Foundation model auto-babysitting
Distributed data prep
Host and share AI apps
Share public app links
Deploy no-code model endpoints
Deploy full control model endpoints
Access Studio plugins
Security
SSO, RBAC, VPC, encryption, compliance
SAML/SSO
Role-based access controls
SOC2 (type 2) compliance
Lightning in your VPC
Use your own AWS account
Audit logs
KMS Encryption
Bring your own encryption keys
Secrets
End-to-end data encryption
Lightning on prem
Bring your own images
Connect to internal pip/conda mirrors
Support
Community, expert support, SLA, services
Learn AI and deep learning
Onsite classes available
PyTorch Lightning support
24/7 expert support
Platform support
24/7 expert support
Uptime SLA
99.95%
Expert model performance tuning
Custom gen AI model trained & deployed
AI strategy design
Lightning on your private cloud
Use AWS/GCP commits, keep data private in your VPC.
Run a secure, customized AI platform, without managing infrastructure.
Use cloud credits
Maximize AWS/GCP commitments.
Fully customizable
Build your dream AI platform — zero infra management.
SOC2 · HIPAA
Enterprise-grade security for your data.
Lightning Agnostic Storage Layer
You pay to store
data, not to use it.
The bill is set by what you keep,
not how hard your team works.
Base case — 1 TB stored,
moved out once
No per-movement charge to forecast, no penalty for iterating — the bill is set by what you store, not how hard you work it.
Even at a single movement, Lightning already lands lower all-in.
| Line item | Volume | AWS rate | Lightning | AWS/mo | Lightning/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | 1,024 GB | $0.023/GB-mo | $0.10/GB-mo | $23.55 | $102.40 |
| PUT / COPY / POST / LIST | 100,000 | $0.005/1K | Included | $0.50 | $0.00 |
| GET / SELECT / other | 1,000,000 | $0.0004/1K | Included | $0.40 | $0.00 |
| Egress — data out | 1,024 GB | $0.09/GB | Included | $92.16 | $0.00 |
| Total monthly | $116.61 | $102.40 | |||
- Storage
- $0.10/GB-monthThe only line on your bill.
- Egress
- $0/GB outAWS meters this at $0.09/GB.
- Requests
- $0/1K requestsAWS meters writes at $0.005/1K.
How the bill scales as data moves
AWS meters every move. Lightning charges for what you keep.
| How the team works | Moves | AWS total | Lightning total | You save |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Store and leave it | 1 | $116.61 | $102.40 | Save 12% |
| Normal iteration | 5 | $485.25 | $102.40 | Save 79% |
| Heavy experimentation | 10 | $946.05 | $102.40 | Save 89% |
Same 1 TB dataset in every row; a move is the full TB leaving storage. US-East, 1 TB = 1,024 GB. AWS S3 Standard vs. Lightning storage, public list rates.
You have to try it to believe it.
450,000+ builders love Lightning AI
“We simply wouldn’t have had the compute access or the ability to iterate so fast. In these past 4-5 months, we’ve been able to do 1.5-2 years worth of work.”
Niall LyonsStaff deep learning researcher at Infineon“The ability to easily scale from development to testing, to extensive market simulations is a game-changer.”
Jonathan MasciCo-founder and chief scientist at Nnaisense“Suddenly, scaling compute was effortless, live pipelines could be updated in minutes, and shared studios transformed how we collaborate.”
Eric NielsonDirector of executive data team at Slalom
Frequently asked questions
What do you mean by running 24/7?
You can create unlimited Studios. At any one time, you can run one (CPU) Studio for free. If you want to run more at the same time, you must use your free credits or buy more credits.
Do you offer a trial?
Yes! The free tier is truly free! You can run 1 Studio for free and get up to 30 free credits. Up to 30 free credits gets you ~50 GPU hours on interruptible machines. Prices may vary
Why do you need my phone number?
To prevent abuse of the platform.
How do the free credits work?
You get 5 free Lightning credits upon registration. Add a card for 25 more. If you don't use them, they expire in 12 months. Credits can be used on compute, storage and tokens.
When do purchased Lightning credits expire?
After 12 months.
How do I use AWS/GCP credits?
Upgrade to the enterprise tier to use your AWS/GCP credits.
Which cloud providers does Lightning support?
Currently AWS and GCP. Azure support is coming soon.
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