The Night Watch for AI Research

Focus on the Thesis.
We'll Watch the Logs.

The first GPU cloud that bills for results, not uptime. No more 3 AM alarms to check training status.No more paying for "ghost hours" on crashed runs.

Stop babysitting drivers and start publishing.

Zero-waste billing
Concierge support
$0during crashes

The Hidden Tax on AI Research

Every researcher knows these nightmares. We built QED to end them.

The 3 AM Crash

Your training crashes at 3 AM due to CUDA_OUT_OF_MEMORY. You wake up to a $400 bill for an idle machine running nothing.

RuntimeError: CUDA out of memory.
Tried to allocate 2.00 GiB...
Crashed at 03:14 AM
$412.50 billed for idle time

Dependency Hell

CUDA 12.1 conflicts with PyTorch 2.0. cuDNN mismatch. Docker image 40GB. Hours lost before training even starts.

ERROR: torch 2.1.0 requires cuda==12.1
but you have cuda 11.8
ERROR: flash-attn requires...
triton==2.0.0 which conflicts with...
jax[cuda12_pip] requires triton...

The QED Solution

When crashes happen, our Research Engineers fix it while you sleep. You only pay for actual compute—never for intervention time or idle GPUs.

Training complete: 100/100 epochs
Final loss: 0.0234
Intervention at 03:14 AM (not billed)
Engineer fix time: $0
Artifacts ready for download

Average researcher wastes $2,400/month on crashed runs and idle machines.

The True Cost of Training Issues

See how intervention time and idle GPUs add up

10h40h200h
5%25%50%

Traditional Cloud

GPU compute$16.00
Provisioning & setup+$1.20
Idle time during issues+$2.80
Total billed$20.00

You pay for setup and idle time

QED Compute

GPU compute$16.00
Provisioning & setup$0.00
Intervention & fixes$0.00
Total billed$16.00

Only pay for actual training compute

Your monthly savings with QED

Free provisioning + 10.0h of engineer fixes

$4.00

20% saved

Up to 35% cheaper than major cloud providers

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Lower base rates than AWS, GCP, and CoreWeave—plus you only pay for actual execution time, not setup or downtime, but with concierge support.

Base Rate

Lower

than major clouds

Setup & Provisioning

$0

always free

Intervention & Fixes

$0

we absorb the cost

46%SAVINGS

NVIDIA RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Great for fine-tuning and smaller models

$0.40/GPU/hour

$0.74typical rate elsewhere

  • Up to 8 GPUs per job
  • Free provisioning & setup
  • Free intervention & fixes
  • Concierge support included
46%SAVINGS

NVIDIA H100

80GB VRAM

Ideal for large model training and inference

$3.70/GPU/hour

$6.88typical AWS on-demand rate

  • Up to 8 GPUs per job
  • Free provisioning & setup
  • Free intervention & fixes
  • Concierge support included
47%SAVINGS

NVIDIA H200

141GB VRAM

Best for large-scale training and LLMs

$4.10/GPU/hour

$7.80typical AWS on-demand rate

  • Up to 8 GPUs per job
  • Free provisioning & setup
  • Free intervention & fixes
  • Concierge support included

Your Effective Cost Is Even Lower

With traditional clouds, you pay for idle time during crashes, setup overhead, and time spent debugging environment issues. At QED, you only pay when your training is actually running. For a typical research workload with 20-30% intervention time, your effective savings can exceed 50% compared to other providers.

All prices are per GPU per hour of execution time only. You're never charged for provisioning, intervention, or idle time.

How QED Works

Five states. One simple rule: you only pay during successful execution.

Submit Your Brief

$0

Provide your GitHub repo URL, branch, dataset source, and success criteria. Add any special instructions for our Research Engineers.

We Provision

$0

Our team sets up your environment—CUDA, PyTorch, dependencies, data loading. You don't pay for setup time.

Training Executes

Billing Active

Your model trains. This is the only state where billing is active. Real-time logs and metrics available in your dashboard.

We Intervene (If Needed)

$0

If something crashes or needs adjustment, we pause billing and fix it. You're notified, but you don't pay for our intervention time.

Success & Artifacts

$0

Training complete. Download your model weights, logs, and auto-generated BibTeX. Ready for your Methods section.

The State Machine

Submitted
Provisioning
Executing
Intervention
Success

Only the Executing state bills compute time

Built for Serious Research

Every feature designed around one principle: your time and grant money should go toward publishing papers, not fighting infrastructure.

Zero-Waste Billing

Our state machine tracks every second. If your run crashes or needs intervention, the billing clock stops immediately. You only pay for successful execution.

Pay for results, not uptime

Environment Concierge

Our Research Engineers handle CUDA conflicts, dependency hell, and environment setup. Submit your repo URL and success criteria—we handle the rest.

No more DevOps headaches

Grant-Ready Artifacts

Download your .safetensors weights, training logs, and auto-generated BibTeX citations. Everything you need for reproducibility and publication.

Ready for peer review

The Night Watch

If something breaks at 3 AM, we catch it. Our team monitors runs and intervenes on failures—you wake up to a success notification, not a bill for ghost hours.

Sleep while we watch

Transparent Time Tracking

See exactly when billing is active and when it's paused. Every state transition is logged. Full visibility into what you're paying for.

No hidden costs

Research Brief System

Submit structured briefs with your GitHub URL, branch, dataset source, and success criteria. No chat interfaces—just professional, reproducible runs.

Structured, not chatty