Startups

Stop overpaying for the legacy cloud

The centralized providers gatekeep high-end silicon behind sales calls and waitlists. Akash gives you direct access to the world's GPU supply at the cost of silicon.

The marketplace advantage

Founders choose Akash to escape the legacy cloud cartel and build on a protocol designed for speed and sovereignty.

Dynamic Pricing

Save up to 80% compared to legacy providers. Providers compete for your bid in real-time. You pay for the silicon, not the corporate markup.

Zero Waitlists

Access H100s on demand. No "Capacity Request" emails or multi-year contracts. If the hardware is idle, it is yours to claim.

No Egress Fees

Move workloads without proprietary lock-in. If it runs in Docker, it runs on Akash. You own the deployment; the market handles the supply.

Open Access

Akash is a protocol. There is no sales team to gatekeep your growth. Small seed rounds have the same priority as enterprise giants.

Agora Labs

Agora Labs: From Akash Innovator to NVIDIA Acquisition

Agora Labs started as a group of students who couldn't find GPUs. They built on the Akash protocol, scaled their interface for AI developers, and were eventually acquired by Brev.dev and subsequently NVIDIA.

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Passage:
50% lower cloud costs.
Zero performance loss.

Passage moved their 3D world-building infrastructure to the open marketplace to escape the "Cloud Tax." By leveraging competitive GPU bidding, they cut infrastructure expenses in half while maintaining the high-performance requirements of real-time rendering.

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Passage

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