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      "authNotes": "Access starts with sales approval. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails an activation link, then a user with the Access Token User role creates an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with a name and an expiry. The token is user-scoped, shown once, revocable in the console and sent as `Authorization: Bearer` to api.coreweave.com, to a CKS cluster's Kubernetes API (through a kubeconfig) and to the Mission Control MCP server. What it can do follows the user's IAM roles, which include a Viewer and an Admin role per service. CKS workloads can also use OIDC workload identity federation. Serverless Inference takes a separate Forge API key.",
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      "pricingNotes": "Per instance-hour, published without a login. On demand in North America, HGX H100 (8 GPUs) $49.24, HGX H200 $50.44, HGX B200 $68.80, A100 $21.60, L40S $18.00, L40 $10.00, GB200 NVL72 (4 GPUs) $42.00 and GH200 (1 GPU) $6.50, with spot rates on most. GB300 NVL72 and HGX B300 on demand are quoted by sales. Reserved capacity is discounted by up to 60 per cent through sales. AI Object Storage is $0.06 a GB-month hot, $0.03 warm and $0.015 cold, distributed file storage $0.07, and egress, VPC and the CKS control plane are free. No free tier or self-serve trial was found, and the terms treat any trial as part of the sales-run ARENA programme (https://www.coreweave.com/pricing, https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service).",
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          "IAM has Viewer and Admin roles per service, API tokens carry an expiry, and Kubernetes audit logs can be forwarded with Telemetry Relay",
          "Terms carry a service level objective of 99.9 per cent across multiple regions and 99 per cent in one, with financial credits",
          "Dated changelog with 18 entries between 10 July and 2 October 2026, and a Terraform provider tagged v0.24.0 on 11 September 2026"
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          "No request rate limits, 429 guidance or idempotency keys found for api.coreweave.com in the reviewed documentation",
          "The CKS API is versioned v1beta1 and the Node Pool resource and Dedicated Inference API v1alpha1",
          "Three incidents between 26 September and 6 October 2026, including a US-CENTRAL-09A network outage of over two hours on 5 October",
          "The MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` ignores its `dry_run` parameter and applies the manifest, per the tool reference"
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          "Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards",
          "Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour",
          "Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied",
          "Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there"
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          "item": "HGX B200 180 GB",
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          "item": "L40S 48 GB",
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          "item": "AI Object Storage, hot tier",
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          "The privacy policy names CoreWeave, Inc. and its affiliates and was last updated on 24 February 2026.",
          "www.coreweave.com/.well-known/security.txt and coreweave.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. A vulnerability disclosure policy is published in the docs.",
          "The APIs run on api.coreweave.com and mc.coreweave.com. Serverless Inference runs on api.inference.wandb.ai.",
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An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**Lambda Cloud.** H100 SXM at $3.99 and B200 at $6.69 an hour with per-minute billing. No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CoreWeave\n\n1. Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com\n2. Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards\n3. Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour\n4. Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied\n5. Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there\n\n### Lambda Cloud\n\n1. Call `GET /instance-types` first and read `regions_with_capacity_available` before trying to launch\n2. Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with `global/rate-limited`\n3. Branch on the error `code`, not the `message` or `suggestion`, which Lambda says may change\n4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine\n5. Terminate the instance in a `finally` block; billing runs by the minute until you do\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CoreWeave or Lambda Cloud?\n\nCoreWeave scores 61.5 (C) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 50 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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