Fluidstack has been awarded Gold by SemiAnalysis in ClusterMAX™, the leading independent GPU cloud ranking system. The accolade reflects Fluidstack’s continued success unlocking reliable AI infrastructure for frontier AI labs on unprecedented timelines. 

Fluidstack was ranked among the top six organizations indexed by SemiAnalysis, reflecting our position as a leading provider of large-scale compute capacity. 

“The Hired Gun”

Of the providers to debut in ClusterMAX™ 2.0, SemiAnalysis described the company as having “the most unique business model”. They credited Fluidstack as “effectively the hired gun that organizations go to in order to turn bronze-tier datacenter infrastructure into a gold-tier customer experience.”

As part of a benchmarking and evaluation process totalling 80 providers, SemiAnalysis was given a live demonstration of Fluidstack’s operating system. They described the value proposition as “a highly collaborative, deeply technical partnership that rapidly improves the platform based on expert feedback.”

The SemiAnalysis team highlighted Fluidstack’s speed to remediation across performance tuning, monitoring dashboards, health checks, and security posture, noting that “the speed with which the Fluidstack team addressed issues was unmatched in all our testing.” 

Elite-Level Responsiveness

Among Fluidstack’s strongest features was speed to deployment, which SemiAnalysis credited to an engineering team that “demonstrated an elite level of responsiveness and expertise…Issues that might take weeks or months to get addressed in a hyperscaler’s ticketing system were fixed in hours.”

They continued: “If there is anyone that demonstrated the “Forward Deployed Engineering” ethos during our testing, it was Fluidstack.”

On the accolade, César Maklary, President & Cofounder at Fluidstack, said: 

“These results highlight the confidence and trust that customers continue to place in Fluidstack. We’re proud to partner with leading AI labs as they build and deploy frontier models at speed and scale. This Gold accreditation is a testament to the calibre of our execution and the investment we continue to make in assembling world class engineering and product teams that can deliver AI infrastructure at unprecedented pace.”

ClusterMAX™ 2.0 is the second edition of SemiAnalysis’ independent GPU cloud rating system. It evaluates and benchmarks the performance of more than 84 providers, while tracking over 200 in total, and surveying 140+ customers. Six providers were awarded the top two rankings, based on metrics including security, lifecycle, technical experience, storage, and reliability. 

You can read more about the ClusterMAX™ methodology and rankings here.