# Shadeform

Official pricing: https://www.shadeform.ai/  
Category: gpu-cloud · Isolation: dedicated-vm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (resource) [alt]
- **H100 PCIe, on-demand marketplace (x1, from $2.50/h)** (resource): $0/vCPU-h, $0/GiB-h [stock, sales]
- **L40S marketplace listing (1x)** (resource): $0/vCPU-h, $0/GiB-h

## Features

Yes: persistent disk, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, SSH, public IPv4, open internet, BYOC, SOC 2, HIPAA, GPU, Python, EU data residency, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), extra volumes, shared volumes

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, open source, SSO, arm64, Windows, macOS, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, secret proxy, secret proxy for any API

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/shadeform.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Unified API to provision GPU instances across providers. Marketplace availability/rates vary by cloud, region, GPU, commitment. No single stable 4/8 or GPU additive price verified. Quote authenticated live catalog before estimating.
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Native browser/device/task/credit prices with unknown CPU/RAM are deliberately non-priceable. Check regime before interpreting any partial resource estimate.
- H100 regime is a dated snapshot of the public marketplace (like Vast); other GPU types are not snapshotted. Billing granularity and minimums depend on the underlying cloud (unverified).
- Shadeform is a marketplace/aggregator reselling third-party GPU clouds (Hyperstack, Massed Compute, Scaleway, Lambda, ...); its modes are flagged "sales" (marketplace) and priced only when the user opts in.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2023; directory status **Active**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shadeform

GPU marketplace provisioner

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native product; see regime notes | Incomplete or non-resource economics: rates remain null, never interpreted as free. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |
| Current applicable tariff unverified | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.shadeform.ai/ |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Unified API to provision GPU instances across providers. Marketplace availability/rates vary by cloud, region, GPU, commitment. No single stable 4/8 or GPU additive price verified. Quote authenticated live catalog before estimating.

## Worked example

Requested: 4 vCPU/8 GiB, 50 simultaneous × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU; 50 GiB snapshots and 100 GiB egress. A month is 730 hours only when explicitly used in rate conversion.

**Total: unknown.** This product does not publish a verified complete 4-vCPU/8-GiB tariff and/or the service bills a different unit. Fifty concurrent instances and eight-hour sessions are not automatically supported. Neither 30% utilization nor retained snapshots can be converted into free resources. Use the native plan terms above and request the missing CPU/RAM, retention, egress and concurrency quote.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/shadeform
- https://shadeform.com/
- https://shadeform.com/llms.txt

Page captures and documentation indexes/bundles are in `raw/`; provider JSON lists the evidence paths. HN query results were captured separately as `<id>--hn.txt`; they are discovery leads, not current tariff authority. Downloaded docs do not imply every feature was verified; unsupported assertions remain null.