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SkyPilot

Open-source control plane for AI workloads across clouds, clusters, and on-premises

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PricingFree
Starting price$0
Free planYes
Free trialYes
APIYes
Open sourceYes
DeploymentHybrid
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
Overview

Tool overview

SkyPilot is listed under AI Infrastructure & MLOps AI tools.

Summary

What is SkyPilot?

SkyPilot is an Apache-2.0 system for running, managing, and scaling AI workloads across Kubernetes, Slurm, on-premises clusters, and more than twenty cloud providers. It provides CLI, YAML, Python APIs, scheduling, managed jobs, services, and resource optimization.

Best fit

Best for

AI infrastructure teams orchestrating workloads across heterogeneous compute

Audience

Who is it for?

ML infrastructure teamsResearch organizationsPlatform engineersCloud cost teams
Recommendation

Decision note

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Capabilities

Key features

Unified control plane across 20+ clouds and clusters

YAML, CLI, and Python interfaces

Managed jobs, services, pools, and autoscaling

BYOC operation inside customer accounts and VPCs

Workflows

Use cases

Launch distributed AI training

Serve models across clouds

Schedule batch inference

Unify Kubernetes, Slurm, and cloud resources

Strengths

Pros

  • Apache-2.0 open source
  • Current release supports Slurm and multi-cloud pools
  • Workloads stay in customer infrastructure
Considerations

Limitations

Automated provisioning can create significant compute cost or expose resources if credentials and policies are weak.

Operators must validate quotas, networking, images, storage, shutdown, and multi-tenant isolation.

Cost

Pricing details

Pricing modelFree
Starting price$0
Free planYes
Free trialYes
Pricing context

Billing options

Free open sourceCloud-provider infrastructure costsEnterprise services
Pricing context

Pricing note

SkyPilot is free under Apache-2.0. Compute, storage, networking, managed services, and support are billed separately by infrastructure providers or enterprise agreements.

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Compatibility

Supported languages

  • English
Connectivity

Integrations

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Kubernetes

Slurm

RunPod

Nebius

Specs

Technical details

PlatformsWeb
Multilingual supportUnknown
Login requiredUnknown
Open sourceYes
LicenseApache-2.0
DeploymentHybrid
CompanySkyPilot Project
Current version0.12.1
Data confidenceHigh
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
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SkyPilot is an Apache-2.0 system for running, managing, and scaling AI workloads across Kubernetes, Slurm, on-premises clusters, and more than twenty cloud providers. It provides CLI, YAML, Python APIs, scheduling, managed jobs, services, and resource optimization.
AI infrastructure teams orchestrating workloads across heterogeneous compute
The listed pricing model for SkyPilot is Free. Pricing can change, so users should verify the latest plan details on the official website.
Yes. The current profile indicates that a free trial is available.
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