AI infrastructure reference

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Use transparent calculators for memory, power, and data movement. The provider directory links to official provisioning documentation without assigning invented scores or implying an integration.

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Calculate before comparing vendors.

These tools run locally and show the arithmetic. They do not fetch live pricing, inventory, quota, or account data.

TOOL 001Free tool

LLM VRAM Calculator

Estimate model weights, KV cache, runtime overhead, and GPU count for inference.

Useful for
Sizing a local server, inference node, or GPU request
Output
GiB required and minimum GPU count
Open calculator
TOOL 002Free tool

AI Cluster Power Calculator

Turn a GPU count into IT load, facility load, cooling, energy, and electricity cost.

Useful for
Planning a rack, lab, cluster expansion, or facility conversation
Output
kW, kWh, cooling load, cost, and rack density
Open calculator
TOOL 003Free tool

Dataset Transfer Calculator

Estimate transfer time, effective throughput, replicas, egress, storage, and growth.

Useful for
Moving training data, checkpoints, embeddings, or backups
Output
Wire time, storage footprint, and user-supplied cost estimate
Open calculator

Source-linked provider research

Six provisioning surfaces, without a ranking.

Documentation links last reviewed August 2, 2026. Prices, inventory, quotas, regions, and product names can change; verify them directly before spending.

ResearchGPU cloud

RunPod

A container-oriented GPU Pod API suited to experiments, inference workers, and direct GPU selection.

Provisioning
REST Pods API · POST /v1/pods
Credentials
Bearer API token
ResearchGPU cloud

Lambda Cloud

A focused REST API for launching and managing GPU instances, images, SSH keys, filesystems, and firewalls.

Provisioning
Lambda Cloud REST API · instance-operations/launch
Credentials
Bearer API key
ResearchHyperscaler

AWS EC2

A broad infrastructure API with GPU instance families, networking, IAM, storage, Spot, and mature lifecycle controls.

Provisioning
EC2 Query API · RunInstances
Credentials
IAM credentials with Signature Version 4
ResearchHyperscaler

Google Compute Engine

A REST and client-library surface for creating VMs with attached accelerators, IAM, networks, disks, and reservations.

Provisioning
Compute Engine REST API · instances.insert
Credentials
OAuth access token through IAM or workload identity
ResearchHyperscaler

Azure Virtual Machines

An Azure Resource Manager API for creating GPU VMs within subscriptions, resource groups, networks, and identity controls.

Provisioning
Azure Compute REST API · Virtual Machines Create or Update
Credentials
Microsoft Entra OAuth through a managed identity or service principal
ResearchAI infrastructure

CoreWeave

A Kubernetes-first AI cloud whose CKS API creates and manages clusters before GPU node pools and workloads are attached.

Provisioning
CKS REST API · POST /v1beta1/cks/clusters
Credentials
Bearer API access token

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Run Any AI does not provision infrastructure.

The calculators and provider research require no Run Any AI account, AI API key, provider key, or database. No provider is scored or recommended by an unpublished formula.

Creating infrastructure happens with the provider and requires an account, current price and capacity checks, scoped credentials, spend controls, monitoring, and dependable cleanup. The source notes are a starting point for that review—not a substitute for it.