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Pump
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Free cloud cost-optimization platform that pools buying power to give startups enterprise-level AWS, GCP, and Azure discounts.
64K visits/mo3.2K saves
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Dagster
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source asset-based data orchestrator, with Dagster+ cloud, for building, observing and delivering reliable data and AI pipelines.
152K visits/mo
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Trooper.AI
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EU-hosted GPU server rental service offering bare-metal, GDPR-compliant machines pre-loaded with AI tooling like ComfyUI and OpenWebUI.
27K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Solo: $10/mo + $0.040/credit (1 user)
Starter: $100/mo + $0.035/credit (up to 3 users)
Free trial available
Explorer: €0.18/hour or €80/month (RTX A4000 16GB)
Sparbox: €0.36/hour or €164/month (RTX 3090 24GB)
Paladin: €0.48/hour or €220/month (RTX 4080 Super 32GB)
Infinityai: €0.59/hour or €268/month (A100 40GB)
Hyperionai: €1.78/hour or €820/month (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96GB)
Core features
- ✦Automated cloud spend optimization
- ✦Group buying for enterprise discounts
- ✦Cost visibility and insights dashboards
- ✦Coverage across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- ✦No-cost service model
- ✦Asset-based pipeline orchestration
- ✦Built-in lineage and data-quality checks
- ✦Data catalog with asset metadata
- ✦Native dbt, Snowflake and Fivetran integrations
- ✦Branch deployments and hybrid deployment
- ✦Open-source core plus managed Dagster+ cloud
- ✦Hourly or monthly GPU rental across 13+ GPU tiers
- ✦One-click AI environment templates (ComfyUI, OpenWebUI/Ollama, Jupyter, vLLM)
- ✦Pause/freeze billing to cut idle costs
- ✦Full root SSH access with persistent NVMe storage
- ✦Published GPU and LLM inference benchmarks
- ✦EU-based, GDPR-compliant hosting
Use cases
- →Reducing startup cloud bills
- →Automating reserved-capacity savings
- →Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
- →Accessing enterprise pricing without scale
- →Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
- →Monitor data health and lineage
- →Build AI/ML data pipelines
- →Run reliable, observable data platforms
- →Running local LLM inference or fine-tuning without buying hardware
- →Generating images with ComfyUI/Stable Diffusion on rented GPUs
- →EU businesses needing GDPR-compliant AI infrastructure
- →Hobbyists experimenting with open-source AI tools on a budget
- →Short-term GPU bursts for training or rendering
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