How Vast.ai’s scores are calculated
The full audit trail, recomputed from the verdict data at build time through the same code that produced the leaderboard: verdict × quality × story weight per cell, cells sum to dimension scores, dimensions blend into the PA Score. Every number on the product page is reproducible from this page alone; for why the formula looks like this, see the methodology.
verdict factors: full ×1.0 · partial ×0.6 · disputed ×0.3 · none ×0.0 · n/a excluded from both sides · cell points = weight × quality × factor · cell max = weight × 10
PA Score40/100
Agent-ready 62.8 × 0.30 = 18.84
API quality 38.0 × 0.20 = 7.60
Openness 33.4 × 0.20 = 6.68
Built-in AI 28.6 × 0.15 = 4.29
Automation 18.0 × 0.15 = 2.70
(18.84 + 7.60 + 6.68 + 4.29 + 2.70) ÷ (0.30 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.15) = 40.11 ÷ 1.00 = 40.1
Scores are stored to 1 decimal; the product page’s pills round to whole numbers for display. Each dimension below shows the stories, verdicts, and cited evidence behind its number.
Agent-ready62.8/100×0.30 of the PA blend
Outside-in: can YOUR agent reach and drive this product — API, MCP, CLI, headless runs, agent docs.
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2
2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/llms.txt # Vast.ai Documentation: Affordable GPU Cloud Marketplace - [Welcome](https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/index.md)”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2
2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“You can also create scoped keys with limited permissions using `vastai create api-key`, useful for CI/CD or shared tooling.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“For shared tooling, CI/CD, or automation, create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): a bare keyless GET to https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/bundles/ returned live marketplace offers as JSON including `dph_total` (per-GPU-hour price), gpu_name, cpu specs, and reliability fields — the offer-search REST endpoint is public.”
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3
3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
Use an official CLIweight 2
2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1 verified=true direct_port_count>=1 rentable=true' -o 'dlperf_usd-'”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world“official CLI documented at https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3
3 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 27.0 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“For shared tooling, CI/CD, or automation, create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): a bare keyless GET to https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/bundles/ returned live marketplace offers as JSON including `dph_total` (per-GPU-hour price), gpu_name, cpu specs, and reliability fields — the offer-search REST endpoint is public.”
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2
2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“You can also create scoped keys with limited permissions using `vastai create api-key`, useful for CI/CD or shared tooling.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“For shared tooling, CI/CD, or automation, create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
Build against official SDKsweight 2
2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/serverless/index.md“Interacting with Vast Serverless is made easy through a powerful python SDK.”
- [github] https://github.com/vast-ai/vast-cli“Migrating from vastai-sdk? The old import still works: from vastai_sdk import VastAI”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): a bare keyless GET to https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/bundles/ returned live marketplace offers as JSON including `dph_total` (per-GPU-hour price), gpu_name, cpu specs, and reliability fields — the offer-search REST endpoint is public.”
Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
Agent-ready = 113.0 ÷ 180 × 100 = 62.8
API quality38.0/100×0.20 of the PA blend
The programmable surface once an agent is there — machine-readable spec, interactive docs, sandbox, versioning discipline.
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2
2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2
2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): a bare keyless GET to https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/bundles/ returned live marketplace offers as JSON including `dph_total` (per-GPU-hour price), gpu_name, cpu specs, and reliability fields — the offer-search REST endpoint is public.”
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [github] https://github.com/vast-ai/vast-cli“Migrating from vastai-sdk? The old import still works: from vastai_sdk import VastAI”
API quality = 22.8 ÷ 60 × 100 = 38.0
Openness33.4/100×0.20 of the PA blend
Can you leave, inspect, or self-host — data export, open source, portability.
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2
2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://docs.vast.ai/api/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): a bare keyless GET to https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/bundles/ returned live marketplace offers as JSON including `dph_total` (per-GPU-hour price), gpu_name, cpu specs, and reliability fields — the offer-search REST endpoint is public.”
Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3
3 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 5.4 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/connect/ssh.md“Log in securely, Run commands remotely, Transfer files without exposing your data”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/connect/ssh.md“SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol for safely connecting to remote servers. It encrypts your connection so you can: Log in securely, Run commands remotely, Transfer files without exposing your data”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/storage/types.md“Volumes provide persistent storage that survives instance destruction and can be reattached to new instances.”
Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
Self-host the core productweight 3
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Openness = 23.4 ÷ 70 × 100 = 33.4
Built-in AI28.6/100×0.15 of the PA blend
Inside-out: how agentic the product itself is for its users — built-in assistants, autonomous features.
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2
n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2
2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“You can also create scoped keys with limited permissions using `vastai create api-key`, useful for CI/CD or shared tooling.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“For shared tooling, CI/CD, or automation, create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/serverless/index.md“Vast Serverless is an AI infrastructure platform that lets you run compute-intensive workloads without managing GPUs, paying for execution rather than GPU rental time.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3
3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2
2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The `vastai` agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances, and more”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/get-started/agents.md“The vastai agent skill lets AI coding assistants drive Vast.ai on your behalf — create instances, deploy endpoints, manage SSH keys, check balances”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
Built-in AI = 20.0 ÷ 70 × 100 = 28.6
Automation18.0/100×0.15 of the PA blend
Depth of automation primitives — rules, scheduling, bulk operations, webhooks.
Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2
2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“The Vast.ai CLI gives you command-line access to the entire platform, authentication, GPU search, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, serverless endpoints, and more.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/api-reference/introduction.md“The Vast.ai REST API gives you programmatic control over the entire platform. It's the foundation that the CLI and SDK are built on.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [github] https://github.com/vast-ai/vast-cli“vast.search_offers(query='gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus>=4')”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1 verified=true direct_port_count>=1 rentable=true' -o 'dlperf_usd-'”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): the official Vast.ai CLI (pypi `vastai`) installed via uvx and ran keylessly — `vastai --help` prints the full command surface including search offers, create instance, and destroy instance.”
- [probe] https://docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world.md“PROBE runtime (recorded 2026-09-05): `vastai search offers 'gpu_name=RTX_4090 num_gpus=1' -o dph` searched the LIVE GPU marketplace with NO account and NO API key, returning real RTX 4090 offers with CUDA versions, vCPUs, RAM, disk, and per-hour prices — an agent can comparison-shop the whole market before any signup.”
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3
3 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 30 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/billing.md“Use the autobilling feature to have the system automatically top up your account using a saved credit card when it runs low.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/billing.md“Autobilling keeps your balance positive to protect your instances from interruption or deletion.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/api-keys.md“For shared tooling, CI/CD, or automation, create a scoped key with only the permissions that workload needs.”
Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2
2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max
no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh
Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1
1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai/guides/templates/introduction.md“A template is how Vast helps you launch an instance, setting up your rented machine with whatever software and formatting you need.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Build a template - Package your environment so any GPU can run it with one click.”
- [claimed-docs] https://docs.vast.ai“Automate with the CLI or SDK ... `vastai` from the shell or Python. Same operations, different syntax.”
Automation = 14.4 ÷ 80 × 100 = 18.0