Vast.ai is a leading marketplace for affordable GPU rentals, providing on-demand and interruptible instances for AI/ML, rendering, and compute-heavy tasks.

How do I transfer data between my local machine and a Vast.ai instance?

The skill supports the 'vastai copy' command for direct transfers and 'vastai cloud copy' for moving data between instances and cloud providers like S3 or Google Cloud Storage.

How do I add an SSH key to my Vast.ai account using this skill?

You can use the 'vastai create ssh-key' command followed by your public RSA key string to authorize secure access to any instances you create.

Can I save money on long-running training jobs?

Yes, this skill provides documentation on Reserved Instances, which allow you to prepay for usage to receive discounts of up to 40% compared to on-demand rates.

Vast.ai API Manager

Name: Vast.ai API Manager
Author: rawveg

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Cloud Infrastructure

Manages affordable GPU cloud instances and automates AI/ML workflows via the Vast.ai marketplace API and CLI.

About

The Vast.ai API Skill empowers developers to programmatically control high-performance GPU infrastructure directly from Claude. It provides a comprehensive toolkit for searching the GPU marketplace, deploying instances with specific Docker templates, managing secure SSH access, and handling complex data transfers. By integrating Vast.ai's official documentation and CLI patterns, this skill simplifies the orchestration of machine learning training jobs, serverless inference workergroups, and host-side machine management, ensuring cost-efficient and scalable cloud operations.

Key Features

Full instance lifecycle control including creation, stopping, and rebooting
8 GitHub stars
Advanced GPU instance searching with filtering by model, count, and price
Real-time billing monitoring, credit transfers, and invoice tracking
Secure management of SSH keys and encrypted environment variables
Automated data transfer between instances and cloud storage via rclone

Use Cases

Managing a fleet of rental machines for marketplace hosting and profit optimization
Orchestrating serverless GPU workergroups for scalable AI inference pipelines
Provisioning on-demand GPU clusters for training large-scale deep learning models

About

Key Features

Full instance lifecycle control including creation, stopping, and rebooting
8 GitHub stars
Advanced GPU instance searching with filtering by model, count, and price
Real-time billing monitoring, credit transfers, and invoice tracking
Secure management of SSH keys and encrypted environment variables
Automated data transfer between instances and cloud storage via rclone

Use Cases

Managing a fleet of rental machines for marketplace hosting and profit optimization
Orchestrating serverless GPU workergroups for scalable AI inference pipelines
Provisioning on-demand GPU clusters for training large-scale deep learning models