dstack
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveOpen-source control plane that provisions and schedules GPU jobs across clouds, Kubernetes and on-prem.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
The open-source control plane is free under MPL 2.0. dstack Sky bills GPU time by the hour, with per-GPU price ranges shown on the site (for example H100 on-demand $2.89–12.74 per GPU-hour); dstack Factory has no public price and goes through a booked demo.
Use tool ↗About dstack
dstack is a control plane for GPU work. You declare fleets, dev environments, training tasks, inference services and volumes in YAML, and it handles provisioning, queuing, autoscaling and networking across whatever compute you point it at: cloud GPU providers, Kubernetes, VMs or bare-metal racks, on NVIDIA, AMD, TPU and Tenstorrent hardware. The core is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and free to self-host. dstack Inc. also runs dstack Sky, a hosted account that rents GPUs from several cloud partners under one bill, and sells dstack Factory, a self-hosted multi-tenant edition with usage metering and billing for AI labs and data centres.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- dstack Sky page: GPU capacity from several cloud partners under one billing, per-GPU-hour ranges such as H100 80GB on-demand $2.89–12.74 and spot $1.09–8.94 (15 October 2026)dstack.ai ↗
- Site products menu: dstack (open source, self-hosted), dstack Factory (multi-tenant stack for AI labs and data centres, 'Book a demo') and dstack Sky (15 October 2026)dstack.ai ↗
- GitHub repository dstackai/dstack under MPL-2.0, release 0.22.4 published 15 October 2026 (15 October 2026)github.com ↗
Is dstack legit?
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- Domain registered
- Nov 18, 2019 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 16, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 22, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2020The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- dstack Inc.Our research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of dstack
dstack's pitch is not owning GPUs but not caring whose they are, so the same config runs against a cloud marketplace, your Kubernetes cluster or a rack in the office. The MPL licence means you can run the whole control plane yourself and never speak to the vendor. It is a developer tool through and through: config files and a CLI rather than a dashboard-first experience, with hosted GPU time on Sky billed by the hour and the multi-tenant Factory edition priced only through sales.
Pros
- Open source under MPL 2.0 and fully self-hostable at no cost
- Runs against cloud GPUs, Kubernetes and on-prem clusters from the same configs
- Supports NVIDIA, AMD, TPU and Tenstorrent rather than CUDA only
- Handles queuing, autoscaling and networking, not just container launches
Cons
- dstack Factory, the multi-tenant edition, has no public price
- Config- and CLI-driven, with no polished console to hand a non-engineer
- Sky's GPU prices are shown as wide ranges across partners, so the real rate depends on which offer you land
Best for
- ML teams juggling several GPU providers who want one interface
- Anyone who wants the orchestration layer self-hosted
- Groups running non-NVIDIA hardware such as AMD, TPU or Tenstorrent
Not for
- Teams wanting a managed platform with a console and a flat monthly price
- Single-machine experiments where orchestration is pure overhead
Watch out: Self-hosting is free, but the GPU bill still lands wherever the compute actually runs. dstack schedules the work, it does not discount it.