AIME

What AIME does

AIME GmbH is a Berlin-based, founder-owned HPC system integrator founded in 2019 that designs, assembles, and operates AI compute infrastructure. The company's portfolio spans NVIDIA HGX-class 8-GPU servers (GX8-B300, GX8-B200, GX8-H200) built on dual AMD EPYC platforms, multi-GPU rack servers (A8005P, A8005, A4004), liquid-cooled and rack-mountable GPU workstations (G500, G500E, RS724, RS525), CPU servers (RS704, RS504), and high-density NVMe storage servers (RS524S, RS520H). Systems ship pre-installed with AIME's proprietary software stack: AIME MLC (a Docker-based ML container framework), the AIME Benchmarking Suite for performance validation, and the AIME API Server for LLM and diffusion-model deployment with OpenWebUI and vLLM integration.

AIME monetizes through three primary revenue streams: one-time hardware sales (multi-GPU servers starting at €7,449), server rental/hosting subscriptions via the Configure & Rent and Buy & Host programs in its Berlin colocation, and usage-based GPU cloud services priced from €0.55 to €1.06 per hour across Basic, Professional, and Enterprise tiers. A token-based AI Model API Rental offering extends monetization to deployed open-source models (LLaMa, Mixtral, Stable Diffusion). Customers span German and European enterprises and research institutions, with named logos including Fraunhofer, Siemens, Airbus, Zalando, Sony, Harman, Hitachi, Babbel, multiple Max Planck institutes, and numerous universities. The company explicitly markets GDPR compliance and German data sovereignty as differentiators.

The go-to-market combines a product-led e-commerce storefront with configure-and-buy functionality and an enterprise field-sales motion targeting large corporations, universities, and public agencies. All offerings are GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany, with optional hosting in an ISO 27001 / DIN EN 50600 / TSI-certified colocation (BLN4). The company is bootstrapped, privately held by its two co-founders Toine Diepstraten and Henri Hagenow, and operates with a team of 1–10 employees.

Name

AIME

Legal name

AIME GmbH

Website

https://aime.info

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AIME is a Berlin-based, founder-owned HPC system integrator (founded 2019) that assembles NVIDIA GPU servers, workstations, and storage systems with proprietary ML software, and sells or rents them alongside a German-hosted GPU cloud and AI model API service to European enterprises, universities, and research institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HPC and AI Computing Infrastructure

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Model Deployment, Serving & Inference Platforms (HDAAABAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Enterprise Architecture & IT Operating Model (BPAHAEAB), Endpoint & Mobile Asset Management (UEM/MDM Asset Controls) (BPAEAOAI)

Keywords

• GPU servers
• Deep learning hardware
• HPC workstations
• AI cloud hosting
• GPU infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales: One-time sale of pre-configured GPU servers, GPU workstations, CPU servers, and storage servers. Customers purchase complete systems ready for AI/deep learning workloads.
2. Server Rental: Flexible rental programs for GPU and CPU servers with options spanning weekly, monthly, half-yearly, and yearly durations. Allows customers to access hardware without capital expenditure.
3. Cloud Hosting: GPU cloud services providing on-demand access to GPU computing resources hosted by AIME. Customers rent compute time rather than purchasing physical hardware.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

AIME is a Berlin-based HPC system integrator that designs, configures and sells pre-built GPU servers, workstations, CPU servers and storage servers tailored for deep learning and AI workloads. The company complements its hardware portfolio with a proprietary software stack (AIME MLC, AIME API Server, AIME Benchmarking Suite) and offers flexible consumption via GPU cloud hosting, rental, and colocation services based in Germany.

Product overview

AIME is a specialized HPC system integrator offering a comprehensive portfolio of deep learning infrastructure products and services. The hardware lineup includes HGX Servers (GX8-B300/B200/H200 with 8x NVIDIA GPUs), Multi-GPU HPC Servers (A8005P, A8005, A4004), GPU Workstations (G500 tower, RS724/RS525 rack), CPU Servers (RS704, RS504), and Storage Servers (RS524S, RS520H), all featuring AMD EPYC/NVIDIA GPUs and preinstalled with the free AIME software stack. The software portfolio includes AIME MLC (Docker-based container management), AIME Benchmarking Suite (hardware evaluation tools), and AIME API Server (model inference platform with OpenWebUI/vLLM integration). Cloud services offer Basic, Professional, and Enterprise GPU instances (RTX 3090/4090 through H100/H200) with Configure & Rent, Buy & Host, AI Model API Rental, and Cluster Planning services providing flexible deployment options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AIME MLC: Machine Learning Container Framework - Docker-based deep learning framework management system for model training and inference
• AIME API Server
• AIME Benchmarking Suite
• AIME Labs
• AIME Cloud

Products and services

• AIME GX8-B300 HGX deep learning server with 8x NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs (288GB each, 2.3TB total), dual AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, up to 3TB DDR5 memory, 1.8 TB/s NVLINK switch and up to 8x 800 Gb/s network throughput. Targeted at enterprise customers running demanding AI training and inference workloads.
• AIME GX8-B200 HGX deep learning server with 8x NVIDIA B200 SXM GPUs (180GB each, 1.4TB total), dual AMD EPYC Turin CPUs and up to 8x 400 Gb/s OSFP network connectivity for HPC cluster computing.
• AIME GX8-H200 HGX deep learning server with 8x NVIDIA H200 SXM GPUs (141GB each, 1.1TB total), dual AMD EPYC Genoa/Bergamo CPUs and 900 GB/s NVLINK switch connectivity.
• AIME A8005P Multi-GPU server optimized for maximum deep learning and inference performance, supporting NVIDIA H200 NVL, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, H100 NVL and RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPUs.
• AIME A8005 Multi-GPU server supporting NVIDIA L40S 48GB and RTX 6000 Ada 48GB GPUs with dual EPYC Turin CPUs and PCIe 5.0 bus speeds.
• AIME A4004 Deep learning server with up to 4 GPUs/accelerators in 2U form factor, supporting NVIDIA H200, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, H100 NVL, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada and RTX PRO Blackwell series GPUs.
• AIME G500 5th generation high-end workstation supporting up to 4 high-end GPUs (NVIDIA PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, RTX 5090), AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs, DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 bus technology.
• AIME G500E Efficient multi-GPU workstation supporting up to 4 high-end GPUs with AMD EPYC Siena CPU, DDR5 ECC memory, optimized for sustained 24/7 operation.
• AIME RS724 Rackable GPU workstation based on ASUS RS720A-E12, configurable with dual AMD EPYC CPUs and up to 2 high-end NVIDIA GPUs including RTX PRO series.
• AIME RS525 Rack GPU server with EPYC Turin CPU, configurable with up to 2 advanced GPUs for demanding rendering, inference and GPU compute tasks.
• AIME RS704 Enterprise rack server with dual high-performance EPYC CPUs (up to 256 cores), up to 4TB DDR5 memory and support for up to 12 NVMe SSDs totaling 180TB storage.
• AIME RS504

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ASUScoreTechnology or IntegrationASUS is a key hardware partner providing enterprise computing components and systems integrated into AIME's GPU server and workstation configurations. The partnership enables AIME to offer pre-configured systems built on ASUS enterprise hardware.
• GigabytecoreTechnology or IntegrationGigabyte partnership provides high-performance server and workstation components for AIME's AI computing solutions. Gigabyte's enterprise-grade hardware forms the foundation of AIME's configurable systems.
• AMDcoreTechnology or IntegrationAMD provides GPU computing technology integrated into AIME's systems. AMD processors and accelerators enable high-performance AI and deep learning workloads on AIME platforms.
• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or IntegrationNVIDIA is a critical technology partner providing GPU computing hardware including professional GPUs and data center accelerators. NVIDIA technology enables AI and deep learning capabilities across AIME's product range.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Lenovo: Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, including ThinkSystem SR670/SR780 and the Lenovo AI Innovators program, target the same multi-GPU AI server market as AIME's HGX and 8-GPU HPC lines, with significantly larger global reach.
• Dell Technologies: Dell's PowerEdge/XE server portfolio and Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA compete across the same enterprise AI infrastructure buying motion that AIME serves, with much broader scale, services and global supply chain.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): HPE's Cray/Apollo HPC systems and HPE Private Cloud AI provide enterprise-grade GPU compute platforms with global support — a broad incumbent alternative for the same research and enterprise customers AIME targets.

Direct peers

• RunPod: RunPod provides on-demand GPU cloud instances (including H100/H200) plus serverless inference endpoints aimed at AI developers — directly comparable to AIME's Basic/Professional/Enterprise GPU cloud tiers and API rental product.
• Vast.ai: Vast.ai operates a marketplace for renting GPU compute across consumer and datacenter hardware, with a focus on AI training and inference at hourly rates — comparable consumption model to AIME's pay-as-you-go cloud and rental offerings.
• Supermicro: Supermicro designs and manufactures multi-GPU servers and HGX systems built on NVIDIA and AMD silicon — overlapping AIME's hardware portfolio at scale, and a likely supply-chain/competitive alternative to AIME's pre-configured turnkey systems.
• CoreWeave: CoreWeave is a GPU-specialized cloud provider offering NVIDIA H100/H200/Blackwell instances for AI training and inference; competes with AIME Cloud directly for enterprise AI workloads, though at vastly larger scale and capital base.
• Lambda Labs: Lambda sells GPU workstations, multi-GPU servers (HGX-class) and Lambda Cloud GPU instances aimed at AI researchers and enterprises — the closest end-to-end analog to AIME's buy/rent/cloud hybrid model in the US.

Regional players

• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is a European cloud provider offering GPU instances (H100, A100, L40S) and bare-metal servers hosted in EU datacenters — directly competes with AIME Cloud on European data-sovereignty positioning.
• Hetzner: Hetzner is a German hosting provider offering dedicated GPU servers and cloud instances from EU datacenters at aggressive price points — competes with AIME's European-focused server rental and cloud offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/aime_bird
• GitHubgithub.com/aime-team
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/a-i-m-e
• Instagraminstagram.com/aime_berlin

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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