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Entry priceUsage based: sandboxes from about $0.08 an hour (1 vCPU, 2 GiB, 10 GB), GPUs per hour by provider, training per million tokensFull pricing detail

Infrastructure for training, evaluating and running AI agents: Lab for reinforcement learning environments, hosted training and evaluations, plus secure sandboxes, an inference API and GPUs from 50+ providers.

Prime Intellect provides infrastructure for training, evaluating and running AI agents. Its Lab platform brings together the Environments Hub, Hosted Training and Hosted Evaluations for post-training research, and alongside it sit Prime Sandboxes for running agent code, an inference API, and GPU compute from more than fifty providers.

Lab is built around environments: a dataset of tasks, the harness the model runs in (tools, sandboxes, context and multi-turn interaction) and a rubric of reward functions and metrics that scores it. The Environments Hub is a community registry of environments for math, coding, games, search and tool use, with validated benchmarks such as AIME and Humanity's Last Exam.

Hosted Evaluations run any environment against Prime Inference or the customer's own OpenAI-compatible endpoint and store the results; Hosted Training runs reinforcement learning with LoRA on open-weights models such as Qwen, Llama and gpt-oss, priced per million tokens, and trained adapters deploy behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

Prime Sandboxes are hardware-isolated microVMs for AI-assisted coding, benchmarks and agent code, with network allow and deny lists, encrypted secrets and custom images, billed per resource hour. GPU instances can be filtered by region and data center before provisioning, and multi-node clusters run with Slurm. The verifiers and prime-rl libraries are open source and run on the customer's own hardware.

Pricing is usage based from prepaid credits: GPUs per hour by provider, sandboxes from about eight cents an hour for a small VM, and training per million tokens. No SSO, audit log or security attestation was documented on the pages read.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.primeintellect.ai

Category

Agent infrastructure

Subcategory

Distributed training and RL compute platform

Funding status

Independent. Its homepage lists Founders Fund among its backers.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

distributed model trainingreinforcement learning and post trainingagent evaluationGPU compute access

Target customers

AI research teamsmodel developers and labsstartups training custom models

Deployment options

cloudself-hosted

Integrations

An OpenAI-compatible inference API routing to multiple model providers, Hosted Evaluations against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, the open source verifiers and prime-rl libraries, a REST API, CLI and Python SDK for sandboxes, GPU instances from more than fifty providers, Slurm for clusters, and browser environments through Browserbase.

In practice

You have an agent but no rigorous way to measure it beyond prompt tweaks. You package the task as a Prime Intellect environment with a scoring rubric and run Hosted Evaluations against your model and a few alternatives.

You want to train a small open model to use tools well on your task. You run Hosted Training on Lab with a LoRA recipe, pay per million tokens, and serve the adapter behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Your agent generates code you would not run on your own servers. You execute it in Prime Sandboxes, isolated microVMs with network allow lists and secrets that never reach logs.

Agentic Index coverage score

6.5 / 14 capabilities · 46%

Integrations & Tool Calling Partial

Agents built in Prime Intellect environments reach outside systems through the tools their harness gives them: environments declare tools, sandboxes and stateful tool environments, hosted evaluations can be granted temporary sandbox, instance or tunnel permissions for tool-using environments, and Prime Tunnel exposes local services to them. No native connectors, OAuth actions or credential scoping for business systems are documented, so tools are code the customer writes into the environment.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/hosted-training/what-is-labread 2026-09-22

Workflow Orchestration Partial

Lab runs agent steps in a loop the customer defines: an environment's harness sets the model's tools, sandboxes, context management and multi-turn interaction, and for each Hosted Training run a dedicated Orchestrator manages environment logic, schedules rollout requests and coordinates training; multi-node clusters can be orchestrated with Slurm. The harness and rollout orchestration serve training and evaluation and are written in code. No workflow runtime is documented that sequences, branches, retries and routes a deployed agent's production work.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/hosted-training/what-is-labread 2026-09-22

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Not documented

An environment's dataset is a set of tasks with optional answers for training and scoring, not the customer's knowledge for an agent to retrieve, and the search-agent guide has the customer build its own document search inside an environment. No retrieval structure that Prime Intellect maintains over the customer's content is documented.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/hosted-training/what-is-labread 2026-09-22

Human Oversight & Guardrails Not documented

No approval step, consent checkpoint or escalation to a person is documented for the agents that run in Prime Intellect's environments or sandboxes. The closest control is sandbox egress: network allow and deny lists restrict where an agent's code can reach, but that is isolation the developer configures per sandbox, not a point where a person reviews the agent's action.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/sandboxes/overviewread 2026-09-22

Security, Identity & Governance Partial

Sandboxes are hardware-isolated microVMs with network allow and deny lists for egress, secrets are injected encrypted and never appear in logs or API responses, API keys carry scoped permissions (Inference, for example), and team members hold Admin or Member roles. Identity is the gap: no SSO, SCIM or audit log is documented, and no SOC 2 or ISO attestation is published.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/sandboxes/overviewread 2026-09-22

Observability & Auditability Partial

Prime Intellect keeps a record of runs: hosted evaluations store each run with its results in Prime Evals, stream logs to the CLI and dashboard, and can be shared; Hosted Training reports run metrics; reserved clusters come with Grafana dashboards and alerting on GPU, node and network health. Run logs and results are there, but no audit log, step by step trace retention or SIEM export is documented.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/tutorials-environments/hosted-evaluationsread 2026-09-22

Memory & State Persistence Not documented

No memory an agent reads across runs is documented. What persists is compute state. Sandbox snapshots that save, restore and fork a sandbox mid run are marked coming soon and have not shipped, paused instances keep a workspace directory, and persistent disks hold datasets and checkpoints. All of it is storage the platform applies, not context the agent reads to decide.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/sandboxes/overviewread 2026-09-22

Deployment & Data Residency Full

Customers choose where their Prime Intellect compute runs: GPU availability can be filtered by region (for example United States, Canada or Europe West), by data center and by provider cloud before provisioning, across more than fifty providers, and its training and evaluation stack (prime-rl and verifiers) is open source and runs on the customer's own hardware. Hosted Training and Hosted Evaluations are the exception: they run on infrastructure Prime manages, with no stated region.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/api-reference/check-gpu-availabilityread 2026-09-22

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Partial

The Environments Hub is a community registry of ready-to-run environments for training and evaluation, spanning math, coding, games, search and tool use, and multimodal tasks, plus validated benchmark implementations, and Lab guides give training recipes for code generation, tool use and search agents. These are ready-made starting points for improving an agent. Environments are tasks and scoring for research, though, not production workflows or role specific agents that do work when selected.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/tutorials-environments/environmentsread 2026-09-22

Triggers & Channel Coverage Not documented

Work on Prime Intellect starts when a person or the customer's own code calls it: hosted evaluations and training runs launch from the dashboard or CLI, and sandboxes and instances through the API or SDK. No schedule, event subscription or other seam that starts an agent's work without a caller is documented; cluster alerting notifies people about hardware health, not agents.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/tutorials-environments/hosted-evaluationsread 2026-09-22

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

Model choice is the customer's throughout: Prime Inference is an OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests to a range of model providers, evaluations run against any model on it or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint the customer brings, Hosted Training lets the customer pick among open-weights models (Qwen, Llama, NVIDIA Nemotron, gpt-oss and others) with per-model token prices, and trained LoRA adapters deploy behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/inference/overviewread 2026-09-22

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Full

Outside code reaches Prime Intellect through a documented REST API (instances, availability, disks, clusters, sandboxes and chat completions) with scoped API keys, the prime CLI, a Python SDK for sandbox lifecycles, and its open source verifiers and prime-rl libraries, with which customers build and publish their own environments to the Environments Hub. The API, CLI and SDK are stable and documented. No MCP server is published.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/llms.txtread 2026-09-22

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

Evaluation of the customer's agent is a core product: an environment packages a dataset of tasks, the harness the model runs in (tools, sandboxes, multi-turn interaction) and a rubric of reward functions and metrics that scores it, and Hosted Evaluations run that environment against Prime Inference or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, from the dashboard or CLI, storing each run with its logs and results in Prime Evals.

The Environments Hub adds validated benchmarks such as AIME, MATH-500 and Humanity's Last Exam. Agents can be tested on datasets before production and scored the same way across runs.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/tutorials-environments/hosted-evaluationsread 2026-09-22

Browser & Computer Use Not documented

Browser use exists only inside training environments. The verifiers library's BrowserEnv lets an agent navigate and act on web pages in a DOM mode through Stagehand or a vision-based computer use mode, but the browser itself runs on Browserbase, a separate service with its own account and billing, sold beside the platform rather than part of it. Prime Sandboxes are VMs for running code, not a documented browser or desktop the agent operates. Prime Intellect hosts nothing for operating web interfaces or desktop environments where APIs are absent.

Sourcedocs.primeintellect.ai/guides/browser-environmentsread 2026-09-22

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Recent platform changes

2026-10-02·MCP / tool calling / APIVerified

Prime Intellect publicly released Prime Inference, a serving platform for open models on its own GPU fleet, with serverless endpoints, reserved capacity and failover between data centers, starting with GLM-5.3. It enforces declared tool schemas during generation so tool calls stay valid through long agent sessions.

Bears on: Deployment / data residency

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2026-09-23·Deployment / data residencyVerified

Prime Intellect made Prime Sandboxes generally available through its CLI and SDK and as part of its reinforcement learning stack. Each sandbox runs a Linux microVM with its own kernel, supporting Docker Compose, background services and custom Docker images. Accounts start with capacity for 1,024 concurrent sandboxes.

Bears on: Agent capability

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2026-09-13·Agent capabilityVerified

Prime Intellect announced the general availability of Lab, its training platform for self-improving agents. The platform has officially transitioned out of beta to provide full-stack capabilities for post-training research and agentic reinforcement learning.

Bears on: Agent capability

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View all 6 changes for Prime Intellect →Tracked since Jul 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Usage based: sandboxes from about $0.08 an hour (1 vCPU, 2 GiB, 10 GB), GPUs per hour by provider, training per million tokens

Prepaid credits drawn by usage: GPU instances per hour by provider, sandboxes per vCPU, GiB and GB hour, Hosted Training per million tokens by model, and inference per token

Included quota

No included allowance documented; usage draws on prepaid account or team credits.

What is public

Sandbox resource rates and Hosted Training token prices per model are published in the docs; GPU instance prices are quoted live by provider; reserved clusters are by request.

Billing mechanics

Usage draws down prepaid personal or team credits: GPU instances per hour (deducted every minute), sandboxes per resource hour, Hosted Training per million input, output and training tokens, and inference per token. Teams can share credits and set a billing email.

Cost watchouts

Instances bill per minute while active and are deleted automatically if credits run out, so auto top-up matters; sandboxes bill for CPU, memory and disk while running; training bills input, output and training tokens separately.

Variable cost rationale

Cost is driven almost entirely by usage, the GPU hours consumed, the providers chosen, inference volume, and the complexity and length of training and reinforcement learning runs, so spend scales directly with compute demand.

Additional watchouts

Set up auto top-up: instances are deleted when credits run out. Estimate training cost from token counts per model before a large run.

Overage / add-ons

Pay as you go from prepaid credits; there are no plans or overage tiers.

Sales call required

Mixed (some tiers require a call)

Free / trial

No free tier found on the pages read; the open source verifiers and prime-rl libraries are free to run on your own hardware

Commercial notes

Positioned as open infrastructure to democratize training, so much of the stack is open source and free to self host, while managed compute, inference, and training are usage based. Partners with clouds such as Nebius for elastic frontier hardware.

Key ambiguities

GPU prices vary by provider, card and region and are quoted live, so there is no single headline rate; total cost splits across instances, sandboxes, inference and Hosted Training.

Missing data

Inference per-model rates and reserved cluster pricing were not on the pages read; no pricing page exists at primeintellect.ai/pricing.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-22

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