Can I deploy models on Novita AI that only run when called?

💡 Answer

Serverless availability at Novita AI: 1

With serverless GPU, you deploy a model container and the platform handles autoscaling, load balancing, and cold starts automatically. You pay only when your endpoint is processing requests — there are no charges during idle time. This can reduce costs by 80-95% compared to always-on dedicated instances for bursty inference workloads.

Novita AI on-demand pricing starts from $0.11/hr (Per-second billing).

View serverless deployment options and cold-start benchmarks on Novita AI official website.

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Novita AI
AI & Agent Cloud platform with 200+ model APIs, GPU instances, and serverless inference at scale.
RunPod
The cloud built for AI — deploy and scale GPU workloads from serverless inference to instant multi-node clusters on demand.
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Simple, scalable GPU cloud for AI/ML
Overview
Trustpilot Rating 3.3 3.8 4.6
Headquarters United States United States United States
Provider Type GPU-Focused GPU-Focused N/A
Best For AI training inference fine-tuning generative AI research LLM serving Stable Diffusion AI training inference fine-tuning Stable Diffusion batch processing rendering research LLM serving generative AI AI training inference fine-tuning LLM deployment LLM serving computer vision startups generative AI research
GPU Hardware
GPU Models H100 SXM A100 SXM L40S RTX 4090 RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5090 RTX 3090 B300 B200 H200 H100 SXM H100 PCIe H100 NVL MI300X A100 SXM A100 PCIe RTX 5090 RTX PRO 6000 L40S L40 RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5000 Ada RTX A6000 RTX A5000 RTX 4090 RTX 4080 SUPER RTX 4080 RTX 4070 Ti RTX 3090 Ti RTX 3090 RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3080 RTX 3070 A40 A30 A2 L4 RTX 4000 Ada RTX 6000 Ada L40S MI300X H100 SXM H200
Max VRAM (GB) 80 288 192
Max GPUs/Instance 8 8 8
Interconnect NVLink NVLink NVLink
Pricing
Starting Price ($/hr) $0.11/hr $0.06/hr $0.76/hr
Billing Granularity Per-second Per-second Per-second
Spot/Preemptible 1 1 0
Reserved Discounts N/A 15-29% (1-month to 1-year plans) N/A
Free Credits Up to $10,000 for startups $5-$500 bonus after first $10 spend $200 free credit for 60 days
Egress Fees None (Free) None (Free) None (included in plan)
Storage Container disk (60GB free), volume disk, network volumes Container/Volume ($0.10/GB/mo), Idle Volume ($0.20/GB/mo), Network Storage ($0.07/GB/mo 1TB) 500-720 GiB NVMe boot (included), 5 TiB NVMe scratch on larger configs, Volumes at $0.10/GiB/mo
Infrastructure
Regions US, EU, APAC, South America, Africa, Middle East (20+ locations) 31 global regions New York (NYC2), Toronto (TOR1), Atlanta (ATL1), Richmond (RIC1), Amsterdam (AMS3)
Uptime SLA 99.9% 99.99% 99%
Developer Experience
Frameworks PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA cuDNN TensorRT PyTorch TensorFlow JAX ONNX CUDA PyTorch TensorFlow Jupyter Miniconda CUDA ROCm Hugging Face
Docker Support 1 1 1
SSH Access 1 1 1
Jupyter Notebooks 1 1 1
API / CLI 1 1 1
Setup Time N/A Instant Minutes
Kubernetes Support 0 0 1
Business Terms
Min Commitment None None None
Compliance SOC 2 SOC 2 Type II SOC 2 Type II SOC 3 HIPAA (with BAA) CSA STAR Level 1