Alyssa is Runpod's Content Marketing Manager. She lives in California with her kids and dogs.
Alyssa Mazzina
02 April 2025
Bare Metal vs. Instant Clusters: What’s Best for Your AI Workload?
Runpod now offers Instant Clusters alongside Bare Metal. This post compares the two deployment options and explains when to choose one over the other for your compute needs.
Introducing Instant Clusters: On-Demand Multi-Node AI Compute
Runpod’s Instant Clusters let you spin up multi-node GPU environments instantly—ideal for scaling LLM training or distributed inference workloads without config files or contracts.