Lightning AI

️ Tool Name: 🖼
Lightning AI

Tool Category: 🔖
An integrated cloud-based platform for developing and running AI applications for developers, researchers, teams, and hobbyists that provides a unified environment for writing code, training models, deployment, and operation without having to deal with infrastructure complexity.

️ What does this tool offer? ✏
- Lightning Studio: A cloud-based work environment with powerful GPU and CPU, running continuously or on-demand.
- PyTorch Lightning integration: based on PyTorch Lightning, with support for Distributed Training.
- Lightning Apps library: Pre-built components for training, analyzing, deploying, monitoring, and running web interfaces.
- Multiple GPU options: T4, L4, L4, L40S, A100, H100, H200.
- Full workflow management (Pipelines): From data entry and processing to training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Automation support: Schedule and execute tasks in the background, connect APIs, integrate with other services.
- IDE or SSH connectivity: Work from VS Code or your favorite editors.
- Real-time collaboration (Multiplayer): Work together on the same project in real time.

What does the tool actually deliver based on user experience? ⭐
- Easy to set up and get started without the complexity of setting up servers.
- High performance in training large models, especially on H100 and A100.
- Significant savings in development time thanks to off-the-shelf applications.
- On-premises-like environment but on powerful cloud resources.
- Excellent support for education and academic research without the need to buy expensive hardware.

Does it include automation? 🤖
Yes, it supports automation via:
- Running tasks automatically in the background.
- SDK to run models and projects programmatically.
- Scheduling tasks by time or events.
- Integration with cloud services to complete the work cycle without manual intervention.

Pricing Model: 💰
Free and paid plans are available.

🆓 Free Plan Details:
- 15 Lightning credits per month (roughly equivalent to $15 of consumption).
- Free hours on some GPU types (e.g. T4, L4, L40S).
- One active studio, session ends after 4 hours with the ability to restart.
- Powerful CPU (32 cores).
- 100GB persistent storage.
- Execute background tasks without limits.
- SSH and external IDE support.
- Real-time collaboration with others.
- Community support.

Paid Plan Details: 💳
Pro - $50/month ($40/month with annual payment):
- 40 Lightning credits per month.
- Active studio around the clock.
- Distributed training on multiple GPUs.
- Integration with S3.
- 2TB persistent storage.
- Higher resources and discounts for interruptible sessions.

Teams - $140/user/month:
- All Pro features.
- Support for the most powerful GPUs (A100, H100, H200).
- Distributed training on 32 devices.
- Unlimited storage.
- Enterprise control and security (SSO, SAML).
- SLA 99.90%.

Enterprise - Customized price:
- All Teams features.
- Run on your own VPC.
- Advanced security (SOC2, private key encryption).
- Deploy within your organization's environment.
- 99.95% SLA and dedicated support.

Access Method: 🧭
- Via the web interface directly.
- IDE connection (e.g. VS Code, PyCharm) or SSH.
- Use SDK and API to integrate into projects.

Experience Link: 🔗
https://lightning.ai