Prime Intellect

Train, evaluate and serve your own models on one open stack

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What is Prime Intellect?

Prime Intellect is a model-training platform that bundles GPU compute, RL environments, hosted training, evaluations, OpenAI-compatible inference and sandboxes, aimed at teams building their own task-specific and agentic models.

Prime Intellect is an integrated stack for teams that want to build their own models rather than rent a frontier API. It combines GPU compute, reinforcement learning environments, hosted training, evaluations, inference and code sandboxes behind a single account and a Python command line tool installed with pip. The pitch is ownership: a company trains a small, task-specific model on its own workflow and keeps improving it. The workflow starts with environments. Any task can be turned into an RL environment using the Prime CLI, with a loop of init, develop, eval and push, built on the open-source Verifiers library. A public Environment Hub lists more than 2,500 community environments that can be browsed, starred and reused. Hosted evaluations let users benchmark more than 100 open-source models without setting up infrastructure, and a public leaderboard shows the results. Hosted Training then runs large-scale training optimized for agentic workflows, with managed workflows that expose full visibility and control, plus support from the company's applied research team. For people who prefer to run things themselves, the Prime-RL framework handles asynchronous reinforcement learning at scale, and sandboxes provide secure code execution tuned for large RL runs. Inference and compute round out the offering. Prime hosts GLM-5.3 on its own infrastructure, and a gateway reaches third-party models through one OpenAI-compatible API. Dedicated serving capacity can be arranged for specific latency or reliability needs. On the compute side, users can rent from one to 256 GPUs on demand, with listed hourly prices for H100, H200, B200 and B300 hardware, SLURM and Kubernetes orchestration, Infiniband networking and Grafana dashboards. The platform suits ML engineers, research teams and AI product groups with enough technical depth to define rewards and evaluations. Customer examples on the homepage include Ramp, which trained a small subagent for spreadsheet questions, and Zapier, which uses evals as improvement loops. Compared with a plain GPU marketplace or a closed fine-tuning API, it bundles more of the loop, but it assumes comfort with reinforcement learning concepts.

How do you use Prime Intellect?

  1. 1Install the Prime CLI
    Run pip install prime to get the command line tool that drives environments, evaluations and training. Then open the quickstart to connect your account.
    Prime Intellect — Install the Prime CLI
  2. 2Pick or create an RL environment
    Browse the Environment Hub for an existing environment close to your task, or initialize a new one with the CLI. The loop is init, develop, eval and push.
    Prime Intellect — Pick or create an RL environment
  3. 3Benchmark models with a hosted eval
    Run a hosted evaluation against open-source models to get a baseline on your task. No infrastructure setup is needed, and results can be compared on the leaderboard.
    Prime Intellect — Benchmark models with a hosted eval
  4. 4Launch a training run
    Start Hosted Training from the quickstart, choosing your environment and training settings such as steps, batch size and learning rate. Monitor reward as the run progresses.
  5. 5Serve the result through the API
    Use the OpenAI-compatible inference API to call hosted or gateway models from your application. Contact the team if dedicated serving capacity is needed.
    Prime Intellect — Serve the result through the API

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Covers the full loop: environments, evals, training, inference and compute in one accountAI
  • Environment Hub offers 2,500+ open-source RL environments to reuse or extendAI
  • Open-source building blocks (Verifiers, Prime-RL) reduce lock-in and allow self-managed runsAI
  • On-demand GPUs from 1 to 256 with listed hourly rates and SLURM, Kubernetes and InfinibandAI
  • Inference through one OpenAI-compatible API, covering hosted and third-party modelsAI

Cons

  • Requires real RL and ML expertise to design environments, rewards and evaluationsAI
  • Hosted Training pricing is not stated on the homepage, so costs must be requestedAI
  • Hosted model lineup is narrow, starting with a single model, GLM-5.3AI
  • Developer-first tooling (CLI, TOML configs) gives little help to non-technical usersAI
  • Dedicated inference and larger training engagements go through a sales callAI

How much does Prime Intellect cost?

Pricing

GPU compute is priced per hour and listed on the homepage, with examples such as H100 at $2.43/hr (spot $0.94/hr), B200 at $3.49/hr and B300 at $4.99/hr. Pricing for training, inference and dedicated capacity is not stated.

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Support

Hosted Training includes hands-on support from the applied research team, and calls or demos can be booked through the contact page.

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Integrations

Offers an OpenAI-compatible API, a gateway to third-party model providers, open-source Verifiers and Prime-RL on GitHub, and SLURM and Kubernetes orchestration for compute.

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Features

RL environments via the Prime CLI and Verifiers, a 2,500+ environment Hub, hosted evaluations, Hosted Training, Prime-RL, secure sandboxes, OpenAI-compatible inference with a gateway, and on-demand GPUs with SLURM, Kubernetes, Infiniband and Grafana.

Frequently asked questions about Prime Intellect

  • How much does Prime Intellect cost?
    GPU compute is priced per hour and listed on the homepage, with examples such as H100 at $2.43/hr (spot $0.94/hr), B200 at $3.49/hr and B300 at $4.99/hr. Pricing for training, inference and dedicated capacity is not stated.
  • Does Prime Intellect have an API?
    Yes, Prime Intellect offers an API.
  • How do you use Prime Intellect?
    The walkthrough on this page covers 5 steps: 1. Install the Prime CLI 2. Pick or create an RL environment 3. Benchmark models with a hosted eval 4. Launch a training run 5. Serve the result through the API.
  • What platforms does Prime Intellect support?
    Prime Intellect is available on Web App and Linux.
  • What does Prime Intellect integrate with?
    Offers an OpenAI-compatible API, a gateway to third-party model providers, open-source Verifiers and Prime-RL on GitHub, and SLURM and Kubernetes orchestration for compute.
  • What are the limitations of Prime Intellect?
    Requires real RL and ML expertise to design environments, rewards and evaluations. Hosted Training pricing is not stated on the homepage, so costs must be requested. Hosted model lineup is narrow, starting with a single model, GLM-5.3.

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