From sign-up to running GPU

Quickstart

You can go from zero to a running GPU in a few minutes. No sales call and no quota request are required for on-demand instances.

1. Create an account at Sign up with your work email. New accounts receive free starter credit.
2. Add a payment method or credit under Billing. Payments are processed by Stripe; card details never touch our servers.
3. Launch an instance from Instances → Launch: choose a GPU type, a region and on-demand or reserved billing.
4. Connect using the IP address shown on the instance page once its status turns running.
5. Stop or terminate when you are done — compute billing ends at that second.

Tip: start on a smaller card (from $0.89/hr) to validate your environment, then change the instance type for the real run.

Instances

An instance is a GPU or CPU machine billed per second. Each instance moves through four states:

Billing modes

• On-demand — billed per second at the hourly rate. Best for experiments and bursts.
• Reserved — billed at a lower committed monthly rate. Best for steady, long-running workloads.

See pricing for live rates, or read On-demand vs reserved to choose.

Regions

Pick the region closest to your users or to where your data must stay.

Choosing a region is a trade-off between latency, data residency and capacity — our region guide walks through it.

Volumes & storage

NVMe block volumes live independently of instances. Create a volume under Volumes, attach it to an instance in the same region, and detach it before terminating the instance to keep your data.

• Volumes persist across stop/start and can move between instance types.
• Use object storage for datasets and artifacts you share across regions or teams.
• Checkpoint long training runs to a volume so a restart never loses more than one interval.

Billing & credits

• Per-second metering with a 60-second minimum per instance start.
• Credits: top up prepaid credit from Billing; usage draws from credit first.
• Invoices and receipts are available as PDFs from the billing page.
• Usage shows spend by day and by instance, plus a budget tracker so surprises show up early.

Team & access

Invite teammates by email from Team. Everyone works in the same account and shares instances, volumes and billing, so you never pass around a single login.

API keys

Create keys under API keys for automation. A key is shown once at creation and stored only as a hash — copy it into your secret manager immediately. Revoke keys you no longer use; revocation takes effect at once.

Account security

• Enable two-factor authentication from Settings.
• Review and sign out active sessions on other devices from the same page.
• Read how we protect infrastructure and data on Trust & security.