Cloud platform for building, training, and deploying AI models with on-demand GPUs, clusters, and coding agents.
Lightning AI is a cloud platform for AI teams that need to build, train, and deploy their own models. It provides on-demand GPUs and clusters, interactive coding environments with SSH access, AI coding agents, and infrastructure for running experiments, pretraining, post-training, evaluation, and inference. It suits machine learning researchers, data scientists, and enterprises that want control over their AI stack. The platform includes cost tracking, autosleep for idle compute, SSO, role-based access, audit logs, and compliance features. It is sold through paid plans with a free starting offer of GPU hours.
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$50/mo
$20/mo billed yearlysave 60%
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$10/mo billed yearly
$140/mo per user
$119/mo billed yearlysave 15%
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Prices in USD, as shown by lightning.ai. Source: pricing page. Last checked October 30, 2026.
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I want to decide whether Lightning AI (lightning.ai) is the right tool and which plan to pick. Below is what the StableMRR pricing directory read from Lightning AI's own pricing page (last checked 2026-10-30). It can be out of date, so treat it as a starting point. Category: Developer tools / Hosting and deployment What it does: Cloud platform for building, training, and deploying AI models with on-demand GPUs, clusters, and coding agents. Plans: - Free: Free. Limits: Free credits Up to 30, Max concurrent GPUs 2, Persistent storage 200 GB, Model APIs req/min 15, Model APIs tok/min 120,000, Free active CPU Studio session 4 hours. Includes: 1 free active Studio, 32 core CPU Studios, Single GPUs, 80% off interruptible, Persistent storage 200 GB - Pro: $50/mo ($20/mo billed yearly). Limits: Monthly credits 40, Annual credits 240, Max concurrent GPUs 6, Persistent storage 200 GB, Model APIs req/min 20, Model APIs tok/min 120,000. Includes: 1 active Studio no restarts, 64 core CPU, Multi-GPU T4 L4 L40S, Multi-node training 6 GPUs, Connect private S3 buckets - Pro Academic: - ($10/mo billed yearly). Limits: Annual credits 100, Max concurrent GPUs 6, Persistent storage 200 GB, Model APIs req/min 30, Model APIs tok/min 150,000. Includes: 1 active Studio no restarts, 64 core CPU, Multi-GPU T4 L4 L40S, Multi-node training 6 GPUs, Connect private S3 buckets - Teams: $140/mo per user ($119/mo billed yearly). Limits: Monthly credits 50, Annual credits 600, Max concurrent GPUs 12, Persistent storage 2 TB, Model APIs req/min 30, Model APIs tok/min 150,000. Includes: 1 active Studio no restarts, 96 core CPU, Full-node A100 H100 H200, Multi-node training 12 GPUs, Use via AWS marketplace - Enterprise: Contact sales. Limits: Max concurrent GPUs Unlimited, Persistent storage Unlimited, Uptime SLA 99.95%. Includes: Use your cloud credits, Priority GPU access, Full-node B200s, Unlimited multi-node training, Deploy in your own VPC Alternatives in the directory: AgentFast, AppMaster, Appliku, Architect Pricing page: https://lightning.ai/pricing Directory listing: https://stablemrr.com/p/lightning-ai First ask me three short questions about my team size, budget and what I need it for. Then recommend one plan, tell me what could make it a bad fit, and compare it with the alternatives. Finish with what I should check on the vendor's site before I pay.
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| AgentFastStarter kit and production layer for building AI products on Next.js with auth, billing, embeds, APIs and run logs. | Hosting and deployment | No | - | 2 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| AppMasterNo-code platform for building web and native mobile apps with generated backend and source code. | Hosting and deployment | Yes | $195/mo | 4 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| ApplikuDeploys and manages Django applications on cloud servers the user owns, via a dashboard, CLI, and API. | Hosting and deployment | Yes | $10/mo | 5 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| ArchitectLive-migrates running Kubernetes workloads off spot instances before reclamation, preserving memory and connections. | Hosting and deployment | No | $1,500/mo | 4 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Base44No-code AI platform that builds full stack apps, websites and AI agents from plain language descriptions. | Hosting and deployment | Yes | - | 6 | Oct 29, 2026 |
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