Shadeform

Shadeform is a GPU cloud marketplace that exposes a single REST API for deploying and managing GPU compute across many underlying clouds. One interface lets you compare real-time availability and per-GPU-hour pricing, then launch, inspect, restart, and delete instances, attach volumes and SSH keys, and reuse saved launch templates across providers such as Lambda, Nebius, Crusoe, and Hyperstack.

Shadeform publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Instance Types API, Instances API, SSH Keys API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include GPU, Cloud, Marketplace, Compute, and Infrastructure.

Shadeform’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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37.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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GPU Cloud Marketplace Compute Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 37.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 5.8 / 18

Access Clarity 5.2 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.0 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Shadeform Instance Types API

Query standardized instance types, availability, and pricing.

Shadeform Instances API

Launch and manage GPU instances across clouds.

Shadeform SSH Keys API

Manage SSH public keys for instance access.

Shadeform Templates API

Save and reuse launch templates.

Shadeform Volumes API

Manage persistent storage volumes.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform Instance Types API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform Instance Types Instances API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform Instance Types SSH Keys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform Instance Types Templates API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform Instance Types Volumes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shadeform API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Shadeform Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shadeform Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Shadeform Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Shadeform Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shadeform Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Shadeform Agentic Access

23 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shadeform
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shadeform/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Shadeform
kind: company
description: Shadeform is a GPU cloud marketplace that exposes a single REST API for deploying and managing GPU compute across
  many underlying clouds. One interface lets you compare real-time availability and per-GPU-hour pricing, then launch, inspect,
  restart, and delete instances, attach volumes and SSH keys, and reuse saved launch templates across providers such as Lambda,
  Nebius, Crusoe, and Hyperstack.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shadeform.png
tags:
- GPU
- Cloud
- Marketplace
- Compute
- Infrastructure
- Artificial Intelligence
tags_raw:
- GPU
- Cloud
- Marketplace
- Compute
- Infrastructure
- AI
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: shadeform:shadeform-instance-types-api
  name: Shadeform Instance Types API
  description: Query standardized instance types, availability, and pricing.
  humanURL: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  baseURL: https://api.shadeform.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Instance Types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shadeform-instance-types-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/shadeform.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
- aid: shadeform:shadeform-instances-api
  name: Shadeform Instances API
  description: Launch and manage GPU instances across clouds.
  humanURL: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  baseURL: https://api.shadeform.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Instances
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shadeform-instances-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/shadeform.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
- aid: shadeform:shadeform-ssh-keys-api
  name: Shadeform SSH Keys API
  description: Manage SSH public keys for instance access.
  humanURL: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  baseURL: https://api.shadeform.ai/v1
  tags:
  - SSH Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shadeform-ssh-keys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/shadeform.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
- aid: shadeform:shadeform-templates-api
  name: Shadeform Templates API
  description: Save and reuse launch templates.
  humanURL: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  baseURL: https://api.shadeform.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shadeform-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/shadeform.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
- aid: shadeform:shadeform-volumes-api
  name: Shadeform Volumes API
  description: Manage persistent storage volumes.
  humanURL: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  baseURL: https://api.shadeform.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Volumes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shadeform-volumes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/shadeform.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/templates/templates
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/sshkeys/sshkeys
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/shadeform-capability-edges.yml
  name: Shadeform Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shadeform-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shadeform-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shadeform-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shadeform
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shadeformai
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shadeform.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.shadeform.ai
- type: Plans
  url: plans/shadeform-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/shadeform-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/shadeform-finops.yml
- url: https://shadeform.com/resources/articles
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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