What Anyscale does
Anyscale is a platform powered by Ray for running data-intensive AI workloads, including building and deploying foundation models on any cloud. Named workloads include multimodal data curation, distributed model training, batch embedding generation, and post-training. Named features include pooled GPUs, multi-cloud execution, SSO, SAML, SCIM, and audit logs, fine-grained hardware allocation, distributed communication, and advanced observability. Ray Data and Ray Train are named native libraries. The page does not state a pricing model, but offers a free start option, a $100 credit, and a separate pricing page.
How Anyscale compares with its closest alternatives
3 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan; Anyscale does not. All 5 offer an API, as Anyscale does. Anyscale offers a web app and a command-line tool. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and none offers a command-line tool. Anyscale was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2019 and 2023, 1 of them earlier. Anyscale is based in San Francisco, United States; 2 of the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too, and the others in Canada.