---
name: Runpod
domain: runpod.io
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.48
---

# Runpod

A GPU cloud platform selling on-demand and serverless GPU instances for AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same GPU compute capability (on-demand pods, serverless endpoints) to the same AI developers and platform engineers who evaluate the anchor.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> On-demand GPUs, deployed across 31 global regions

> Run API-based AI workloads with serverless GPU endpoints

> Experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, scale on one platform

**Edges:**

- competitor [[digitalocean-com]]
- discusses [[slashdot-org]]
- competitor [[rapidclaw-dev]]
