What Parasail does

Parasail operates an AI inference cloud platform that aggregates global GPU compute supply and routes workloads across a distributed fleet to deliver AI model serving without requiring customers to manage hardware. Its core platform spans 26 data centers across 15 regions running NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, B300, A100, RTX 5090, and RTX PRO 6000 chips behind a unified API. A proprietary orchestration engine with liquid routing between dedicated and shared pools achieves approximately 95% fleet utilization, while a custom-trained EAGLE-3 speculative decoding implementation and fastsafetensors + io_uring loading stack deliver 2-5x inference and cold-start performance gains versus naive deployments. The product surface includes four tiers: Serverless (pay-per-token access to 2M+ open models), Dedicated Serverless (private endpoints with per-token billing in early access), Dedicated Inference (reserved GPU capacity priced per GPU-hour under multi-year contracts), and Batch (offline processing at ~50% discount to serverless rates on spare capacity).

Parasail's commercial model is usage-based across all tiers with a distinctive flexible commit structure denominated in inference dollars rather than hardware SKUs, allowing mid-contract model and GPU generation switches without renegotiation, overage billed at committed rates, and quarterly rollover of unused spend. Go-to-market is hybrid: an API-first self-serve funnel serves AI-native startups and developers, while a direct sales motion handles dedicated deployments and enterprise SLAs; distribution also flows through OpenRouter for shared workloads. Customer base is concentrated in AI startups and AI-native companies — named users include Elicit, Rasa, Oumi, mem0, Gravity, Kotoba, Venice, Everpilot, Weights & Biases, and Neuralwatt — with stated emphasis on customers migrating from closed-model vendors to open-source models on dedicated infrastructure.

The company was founded in April 2025 by Mike Henry (former CPO of Groq, acquired by NVIDIA for $20B; founder/CEO of Mythic) and Tim Harris (former CEO of Swift Navigation), with engineering drawn from NVIDIA, Amazon, Stripe, Uber, Groq, Mythic, Blue Origin, and academia. Total funding is $42M across a $10M seed in April 2025 (Basis Set Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Black Opal Ventures) and a $32M Series A in April 2026 co-led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures with Samsung NEXT, Flume Ventures, and Banyan Ventures. Reported scale metrics include 750B tokens served daily, 30% month-over-month revenue growth since launch, SOC 2 Type 1 compliance, and active strategic partnerships with Neuralwatt (energy-aware routing), Wafer AI (model optimization), and Shadeform (capacity visibility).

Name

Parasail

Legal name

Parasail, Inc.

Website

https://parasail.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Parasail is an AI inference cloud platform that aggregates GPU compute across 26 data centers in 15 regions to serve AI-native startups and developers with pay-per-token, dedicated, and batch inference for 2M+ open models.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Inference Cloud Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Deployment, Serving & Inference Platforms (HDAAABAF)

Keywords

• AI inference platform
• GPU cloud infrastructure
• Serverless inference API
• AI deployment network
• GPU compute aggregation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Serverless Inference: Pay-per-token pricing for access to 2M+ open models via API. No minimums, no rate limits, pay-as-you-go model. Input and output tokens priced separately per model with cache read discounts.
2. Dedicated Serverless: Per-token pricing on private dedicated endpoints. Combines performance of dedicated compute with cost structure of serverless billing. No idle-hour charges when model is quiet. Currently in early access.
3. Dedicated GPU Deployments: Reserved GPU capacity priced per GPU-hour. Volume discounts available. Hardware options include NVIDIA B300, B200, H200, H100, RTX PRO 6000, and RTX 5090 with various memory configurations.
4. Batch Inference: High-throughput offline processing at lowest per-token rates on spare fleet capacity. Discounted from serverless rates with additional savings for cached tokens. Supports millions of requests per job.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Parasail operates an AI Supercloud platform that aggregates GPU compute resources across 26 data centers in 15 regions and delivers inference services for 2M+ open AI models. The platform offers four service tiers — serverless per-token inference, dedicated serverless endpoints, reserved GPU deployments, and high-throughput batch processing — accessed via a unified API. An orchestration engine dynamically routes workloads between dedicated and shared pools to achieve approximately 95% fleet utilization.

Product overview

Parasail is an AI infrastructure company offering an AI Supercloud platform for deploying and scaling AI agents. The platform provides four inference service tiers: Serverless (per-token API access to 2M+ open models), Dedicated Serverless (private optimized endpoints with per-token pricing), Dedicated (reserved GPUs with GPU-hour billing and negotiated SLAs), and Batch (high-throughput offline processing at lowest per-token rates). The platform aggregates GPU compute across 26 data centers in 15 regions and uses an intelligent routing layer to achieve ~95% fleet utilization. Parasail's flexible commit structure allows customers to denominate spend in dollars of inference rather than hardware, enabling them to switch models and GPU generations without renegotiating contracts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Supercloud Platform Core AI inference platform that aggregates global GPU compute across 26 data centers in 15 regions and automatically optimizes model endpoints for speed, performance, and cost, enabling developers to deploy and scale AI workloads without managing physical infrastructure.
• Serverless Inference Per-token API access to 2M+ open models with pay-as-you-go pricing, no minimums, and no rate limits. Multitenant deployment accessible via a single Parasail API key.
• Dedicated Serverless Private, optimized endpoints priced per million tokens that combine the performance of a dedicated endpoint with the cost structure of serverless billing. Includes per-workload tuning and dedicated support. Currently in early access.
• Dedicated Inference Reserved GPU capacity sized to the customer's roadmap with negotiated SLAs. Priced per GPU-hour, billed by the minute, offering reserved capacity with full control over model selection and GPU/data location. Hardware includes NVIDIA B300, B200, H200, H100, RTX PRO 6000, and RTX 5090.
• Batch Inference High-throughput offline batch processing at the lowest per-token rate using spare fleet capacity. Supports millions of requests per job at approximately 50% discount versus serverless rates, suited for evals, embeddings, and dataset building.
• Batch Helper Library A developer tool for processing large-scale language model inferences via batch jobs, providing model compatibility, batch resumption, and metadata tracking.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30x cost reduction vs legacy cloud providers
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NeuralwattcoreTechnology or Integration · 10 June 2026Neuralwatt's energy intelligence technology is integrated into Parasail's GPU fleet to route compute to the most efficient hardware, pulling more inference out of every watt. Partnership brings real-time thermal awareness and smarter workload placement across Parasail's entire fleet.
• Wafer AIcoreTechnology or Integration · 30 April 2026Wafer AI optimizes world's best open models to run faster and cheaper on latest hardware without sacrificing accuracy. Parasail serves as preferred launch partner for Wafer AI optimized models including Kimi K2.6 NVFP4, achieving up to 58% more throughput and 43% faster token streaming.
• OpenRoutercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistribution partner for shared workloads. Parasail fulfills shared workloads through OpenRouter, enabling capacity flexibility and allowing Parasail to route GPUs between dedicated and shared pools without impacting serverless customers.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Together AI: Together AI is a leading AI cloud platform offering serverless and dedicated inference for open-source LLMs, with a similar product surface (per-token API, dedicated endpoints, fine-tuning). Direct head-to-head competitor in serving 2M+ open models to AI startups with developer-led GTM.
• Fireworks AI: Fireworks AI provides low-latency, cost-optimized inference APIs for open-source and fine-tuned models. Closely comparable on product surface (per-token pricing, model catalog, optimization techniques like speculative decoding) and target customer (AI-native developers).
• Anyscale: Anyscale (creators of Ray) offers AI compute platform with managed inference endpoints and dedicated GPU capacity. Comparable as a developer-focused AI infrastructure platform serving production AI workloads with usage-based pricing.
• Modal: Modal provides serverless compute and inference infrastructure for AI/ML workloads with developer-first API. Directly comparable in serverless positioning, fast cold-starts, and AI-startup customer focus.
• Replicate: Replicate runs a cloud API for thousands of open-source AI models on a per-prediction pricing model. Comparable as a developer-facing, model-catalog-driven inference platform targeting AI builders with low-commitment access.
• DeepInfra: DeepInfra offers low-cost serverless inference for open-source LLMs and other models with per-token pricing. Direct competitor in the cost-optimized open-model inference category.
• Lambda: Lambda operates GPU cloud infrastructure and a serverless inference API for open models, with both reserved and on-demand tiers. Comparable business model spanning dedicated GPUs and per-token inference.
• RunPod: RunPod provides on-demand and reserved GPU cloud plus serverless AI endpoints, targeting AI developers and startups with usage-based pricing. Comparable on product surface and customer profile.

Broad incumbents

• CoreWeave: CoreWeave is a large-scale, vertically integrated GPU cloud provider offering dedicated GPU capacity and inference services. Comparable on inference offerings but materially larger scale, owns its infrastructure, and serves enterprise AI customers more broadly.
• Hugging Face: Hugging Face operates the dominant open-model hub and offers hosted inference endpoints (Inference Endpoints) and serverless APIs. Comparable on open-model catalog and inference-as-a-service, but with much broader community and ecosystem scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/parasail
• Xx.com/parasail_io

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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