SkyPilot

Unified system for running and scaling AI workloads across clouds, Kubernetes, and Slurm.

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Teams use SkyPilot to run, manage, and scale AI workloads on whatever infrastructure they have: Kubernetes clusters, Slurm-based HPC systems, and more than 20 cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, CoreWeave, Lambda Cloud, and RunPod. A job is declared once, in YAML or Python, with its resource requirements, setup commands, and run script, and SkyPilot provisions it anywhere without code changes, automatically choosing the cheapest available option and failing over to other regions or clouds when GPU capacity runs out. Operational features include gang scheduling for multi-node training, workload binpacking on shared clusters, autostop for idle resources, managed spot instances, and a single control plane spanning multiple clusters, plus interactive workflows like SSH access to pods and IDE integration for development. Originally from UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab and released as open source, the project is used in production by companies such as Shopify for training workloads, and appeals to ML platform teams trying to cut GPU costs and avoid single-vendor lock-in.

Should you use SkyPilot?

Pick it when

Pick SkyPilot when GPU cost and availability drive your choices: it runs the same job on Kubernetes, Slurm, or 20 plus clouds, picks the cheapest option, fails over when capacity runs out, and autostops idle machines.

Look elsewhere when

Skip it if you want pipeline orchestration with experiment tracking and a model registry; SkyPilot runs compute, so pair it with MLflow or use ZenML. If you would rather run nothing yourself, Modal's hosted GPUs are simpler.

Alternatives to SkyPilot

  • dstack

    Similar provisioning across clouds and bare metal, framed around fleets and dev environments, under MPL-2.0 with a paid hosted tier.

  • Modal

    No clusters or cloud accounts to manage and fast cold starts, but proprietary, cloud-only, and billed on Modal's own GPUs.

  • Kubeflow

    Builds a full ML platform on one Kubernetes cluster, while SkyPilot spans many clusters and clouds but adds no pipelines or tuning.

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Details

Price
Free
Platform
Hybrid
Difficulty
Intermediate (3/5)
License
Apache-2.0
Added
May 7, 2026

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