PR Newswire · Jul 2026
Saturn Cloud said it selected Lilac as a GPU network provider so customers can route model serving and per-token inference to idle enterprise GPU capacity already powered on.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Lilac is a YC-backed GPU cloud and inference startup that monetizes idle enterprise GPUs while also selling dedicated GPU capacity and OpenAI-compatible inference, batch jobs, and commitment resale tools.
Primary product
GPU cloud and OpenAI-compatible inference platform
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
GPU cloud / AI infrastructure
Business model
GPU cloud infrastructure
usage-based inference API
subscription credits
batch compute
reservation marketplace
capacity resale / monetization
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$2.5M
Sep 2025 · cyber•Fund
May 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
YC-backed, engineering-led, and open-source oriented; the public voice emphasizes speed, self-serve access, and turning underused infrastructure into productive capacity.
Product & market
Pricing
Per-token inference pricing, per-second batch-job pricing, dedicated capacity quotes, and subscription credits; no minimums or contracts are publicly advertised for inference.
Differentiators
- —Routes workloads to idle enterprise GPUs that are already powered on
- —OpenAI-compatible API
- —No minimum spend or contract for inference
- —Dedicated GPU capacity plus a monetization marketplace for unused reservation windows
- —Batch jobs and reservation resale on the same platform
- —Lower-cost inference framed as a utilization problem rather than a supply problem
Technology
Kubernetes
TypeScript
Rust
Docker
OpenAI-compatible API
Stripe
GitHub
Apache 2.0
Customers
Startups
Researchers
Data scientists
ML platform teams
GPU cloud operators
Enterprise teams with idle GPU capacity
Competitors
CoreWeave
Together AI
Fireworks AI
Replicate
Runpod
AWS Bedrock
Google Vertex AI
Azure OpenAI
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$220K ARR (public estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
2.8K
Traffic estimate as of Sep 2025
Latest news
Lilac Blog · May 2026
Lilac announced a commercial partnership to serve MiniMax M2.7 through its hosted, OpenAI-compatible API and explained why commercial rights matter for the model.
Lilac Blog · May 2026
Lilac added Kimi K2.6 to its model catalog with OpenAI-compatible chat completions, long context, cache-read pricing, and no commitments.
Lilac Blog · Apr 2026
Lilac moved to self-serve sign-up and launched GLM 5.1 and Gemma 4 on its shared inference endpoints with pay-per-token billing.
Lilac Blog · Mar 2026
A pricing comparison post explaining Lilac's lower-cost inference position versus major cloud and specialized providers, centered on idle-GPU economics.
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