Provider pricing

Lightning AI AI API pricing

Lightning AI (founded by the creators of PyTorch Lightning) offers Studios — persistent cloud workspaces with one-click GPU swapping from T4 to H200 — plus LitServe for serverless model deployment and LitGPT for training. Pricing is per-second GPU billing with a free starter tier including 22 monthly Studio hours.

Founded2019
HeadquartersNew York, NY
Tracked modelsDirectory

Best for

ML researchers and small teams that want a managed PyTorch dev loop with elastic GPUs.

Strengths

  • Studios: hot-swap GPUs without losing your environment or files
  • LitServe — open-source serving framework, 2× faster than FastAPI
  • Multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Lambda) with unified billing and quotas
  • Per-second billing and free tier make experimentation friction-free