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TensorDock
✓ verifiedPaid
On-demand cloud GPU marketplace offering low-cost hourly H100, A100, and RTX rentals for AI training, inference, and rendering.
54K visits/mo
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Prolific
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Research participant marketplace that gives AI teams and academics fast access to verified, screened human data and feedback.
21M visits/mo
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Semantic Scholar
✓ verifiedFree
Free AI-powered academic search engine indexing 236M+ papers, for researchers wanting semantic literature discovery and an augmented reader.
7.9M visits/mo13K saves
Pricing
H100 SXM5: $2.25/hr
A100 SXM4: $1.80/hr
RTX 4090: $0.35/hr
Consumer GPUs: from $0.12/hr
CPU instances: from $0.012/hr
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦On-demand GPU VMs with no quotas or commitments
- ✦45+ GPU models available, from RTX 4090 to H100 SXM
- ✦KVM virtualization with root/OS-level access
- ✦Managed container hosting with autoscaling
- ✦CPU cloud for HPC and transcoding workloads
- ✦Vetted host network with a 99.99% uptime standard
- ✦300,000+ verified, screened participants
- ✦300+ audience targeting filters
- ✦Representative and quota-based sampling
- ✦API and no-code survey tool integrations
- ✦AI-powered participant quality monitoring (Protocol)
- ✦Managed services with dedicated project teams
- ✦Access to vetted domain experts
- ✦AI-powered semantic search across 236M+ papers
- ✦Semantic Reader for augmented, contextual paper reading
- ✦Free public API for paper search and metadata
- ✦Author and topic discovery
- ✦Citation graph exploration
- ✦Beta program for new features
Use cases
- →ML engineers training or serving models on H100/A100 clusters
- →Developers renting cheap RTX GPUs for rendering or cloud gaming
- →Teams needing burst GPU capacity without long-term contracts
- →Companies scaling to thousands of GPUs via the host marketplace
- →Collecting human preference data for RLHF or model evaluation
- →Running academic behavioral or market research studies
- →Sourcing domain-expert data for specialized AI benchmarks
- →Researchers searching scientific literature across disciplines
- →Developers building applications on top of scholarly data via the API
- →Students exploring citation networks for a topic
- →Librarians and academics needing free literature discovery tools
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