What BitsRun is
BitsRun runs open AI models as your own private API that sleeps when nobody uses it, so you pay by the second only while it is awake.
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In two sentences
BitsRun takes an open model you name, such as qwen3:8b from Ollama or a repo from Hugging Face, and gives you a private web address (an endpoint) that answers like the OpenAI API. It puts the model on a GPU when a request arrives, puts it to sleep when requests stop, and bills by the second only while it is awake.
Words you will see
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Model | The AI that writes answers or turns text into numbers. Open models are free to download and run, for example Qwen, Llama, Mistral or Gemma. |
| Endpoint | Your private web address for one model, for example https://01k8y4000d3m00000000000011.endpoint.bitsrun.com/v1. |
| GPU | The graphics chip that runs the model. BitsRun offers NVIDIA L4 (24 GB), L40S (48 GB) and 4x L4 (96 GB). |
| API key | A secret your code sends with each request to prove it is allowed to call your endpoint. |
| Cold start | The wait while a sleeping endpoint wakes up: a GPU starts and the model loads. It is never billed. |
| Credit | Your prepaid balance in US dollars. Everything you run draws from it. |
What you can run
- Chat and text models for assistants, agents, summaries and coding. Many support tool calling (the model asks your code to run a function and uses the result).
- Embedding models that turn text into numbers for search and retrieval (RAG).
Models come from three places: an Ollama name, a Hugging Face repo, or a file you upload.
What it costs
You pay per second while the endpoint is awake. On an NVIDIA L4 that is $0.000264 a second ($0.95 an hour). Starting a GPU, loading the model and sleeping cost nothing. The full picture, with examples, is in How billing works.
How it works, step by step
- You deploy a model. BitsRun checks its size and picks the smallest GPU that fits.
- Your code sends a request to the endpoint with an API key.
- If the endpoint sleeps, BitsRun starts a GPU and loads the model. The request waits.
- The model answers. Billing runs by the second.
- When no request arrives for your chosen time (60 seconds to 1 hour, default 2 minutes), the endpoint goes back to sleep and billing stops.
Privacy in one line
Your prompts and the model's answers are never logged or stored, and every endpoint is yours alone. See Privacy and your data.
Next step
Create your account. It takes about a minute.
Still stuck?
Email support@bitsrun.com with what you tried and any request id you saw. A real person answers.