# Nosana

Nosana is an open-source GPU cloud for AI inference and other high-performance
workloads. You rent GPU capacity on demand from a distributed network of
providers, or contribute idle GPUs and earn for running other people's
workloads. Everything a person can do in the dashboard is also available over a
public HTTP API, a remote MCP server, a TypeScript SDK, and an Agent Skill for
coding agents.

## When to use Nosana

Reach for Nosana when a job needs a GPU that the calling machine does not have:

- **Serving an open-weights model.** Deploy vLLM, Ollama or llama.cpp behind an
  HTTPS endpoint and call it like any other inference API.
- **Long-running GPU services.** A deployment keeps replicas running and
  replaces them when a host drops, so it suits a service rather than a one-shot
  script.
- **Batch GPU work.** Rendering, simulation, fine-tuning, benchmarking — a job
  runs a container image on a GPU and exits.
- **Agents that need to provision compute themselves.** The OAuth-protected MCP
  server lets compatible assistants pick a market, deploy, monitor and tear down
  workloads with the user's approval.

Nosana is **not** the right tool for CPU-only batch work, general web hosting,
persistent databases, or anything needing stable storage between runs — a
deployment's filesystem does not survive it.

How an agent should call it: use the MCP server when the host supports remote
MCP and OAuth; use the REST API or TypeScript SDK when writing an integration;
load the Agent Skill when a coding agent needs Nosana-specific implementation
guidance. A deployment reported as `RUNNING` is not necessarily serving yet —
read `endpoints[].online` or the MCP tool's readiness result.

## Programmatic access

- [Nosana MCP server](https://api.nosana.com/mcp) — remote Streamable HTTP,
  authenticated with OAuth
- [MCP server card](https://nosana.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json) —
  machine-readable discovery and connection metadata
- [MCP setup guide](https://learn.nosana.com/mcp/intro)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 document](https://api.nosana.com/openapi.json) — every public
  endpoint across deployments, jobs, markets, credits and nodes
- [API reference](https://api.nosana.com/docs) — the same document, browsable
- [Authentication walkthrough for agents](https://nosana.com/auth.md)
- [Pricing, machine-readable](https://nosana.com/pricing.md)
- [Agent skill index](https://nosana.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json)
- [Agent Skill guide](https://learn.nosana.com/agents/skill)
- [Agentic resource catalog](https://nosana.com/.well-known/ard.json)
- [nosana-kit on GitHub](https://github.com/nosana-ci/nosana-kit) — TypeScript
  SDK, agent skill and API clients

## Documentation

- [Introduction](https://docs.nosana.com/about/introduction)
- [Getting started](https://docs.nosana.com/about/getting-started)
- [Key concepts](https://docs.nosana.com/about/key-concepts)
- [Deployments](https://docs.nosana.com/deployments/intro)
- [GPU markets](https://docs.nosana.com/deployments/gpu-markets)
- [Job definition schema](https://docs.nosana.com/deployments/jobs/job-definition/intro)
- [Health checks](https://docs.nosana.com/deployments/jobs/job-definition/health-checks)
- [API introduction](https://docs.nosana.com/api/intro)
- [Get an API key](https://docs.nosana.com/api/get-api-key)
- [API authentication](https://docs.nosana.com/api/auth)
- [MCP server](https://docs.nosana.com/mcp/intro)
- [Agent Skill](https://docs.nosana.com/agents/skill)
- [Creating deployments](https://docs.nosana.com/api/create-deployments)
- [Credits](https://docs.nosana.com/api/credits)
- [TypeScript SDK reference](https://docs.nosana.com/kit/)

## Product

- [Run GPU workloads](https://nosana.com/gpu-workloads/) — renting compute
- [Provide GPUs](https://nosana.com/gpu-providers/) — contributing hardware
- [Dashboard](https://deploy.nosana.com/) — sign up, credits, deployments
- [NOS token](https://nosana.com/nosana-token/)
- [Grants](https://nosana.com/grants/)
- [About](https://nosana.com/about/)
- [Support](https://nosana.com/support/)