Crusoe

What is Crusoe?

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that calls itself the AI factory company. It designs, builds and operates infrastructure for AI workloads, from data center campuses to a cloud platform. It raised $3.9B in Series F funding and reports contracted capacity approaching 5 gigawatts.

Key capabilities of Crusoe

• Crusoe Cloud: AI cloud with NVIDIA and AMD compute
• GPU options: NVIDIA GB200, B200, H200, H100 and AMD MI355x, MI300x
• Managed Inference: up to 9.9x faster time to first token and 5x throughput versus vLLM, per the vendor
• Serverless Fine-Tuning: model customization, generally available
• Intelligence Foundry: managed AI services
• Command Center: unified operations platform

How Crusoe works

Customers rent GPU clusters or use managed services on Crusoe Cloud, backed by Crusoe's own data center campuses. Managed Inference serves models with low latency, and Serverless Fine-Tuning customizes models without managing clusters.

Who uses Crusoe?

AI labs and AI-native companies run workloads on Crusoe. Named customers include Perplexity and Thinking Machines Lab.

Crusoe pricing

Crusoe does not list prices on its homepage. Contact the vendor or check its pricing page for GPU rates.

Crusoe alternatives

Crusoe is compared with Featherless, SiliconFlow and Inferless. Featherless and SiliconFlow serve model inference, and Inferless offers serverless GPU inference.