Crusoe

Infrastructure

AI data centre builder and operator whose compute infrastructure runs on a mix of renewables and natural gas.

Supplied by: NVIDIA

Company disclosure · 9 Sep 2026
Total funding$7.2B
Valuation$10B
Employees1,300
Founded2018
HeadquartersDenver, USA
StatusPrivate
crusoe.ai

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Nebius GroupPublic · $61.6BCrusoe Cloud and Nebius AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedCrusoe Cloud and Lambda Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareRunPodPrivateCrusoe Cloud and Pods do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; RunPod's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTogether AIPrivate · $8.3BServerless Fine-Tuning and Together Fine-Tuning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWeights & BiasesAcquiredCrusoe Managed Inference and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BServerless Fine-Tuning and Fireworks Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BCrusoe Cloud and CoreWeave AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareModalPrivate · $466M raisedCrusoe Managed Inference and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKakao EnterprisePrivateCrusoe Command Center and AI Insight both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Kakao Enterprise's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAMDPublic · $785.1BCrusoe Cloud and AMD Developer Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).6 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareBasetenPrivate · $13BServerless Fine-Tuning and Baseten Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareReplicatePrivateCrusoe Managed Inference and Replicate do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Replicate's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCore42PrivateCrusoe Edge Zones and Core42 Sovereign Public Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Core42's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BCrusoe Spark and Dell PowerEdge XE7745 do comparable work on AI compute hardware and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareComet MLPrivate · $70M raisedServerless Fine-Tuning and Comet Artifacts do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BCrusoe Managed Inference and Spaces do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNAVER CloudPrivateCrusoe Cloud and ML expert Platform do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; NAVER Cloud's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHuaweiPrivateCrusoe Spark and Atlas 650E AI Server do comparable work on AI compute hardware and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (private).6 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedCrusoe Managed Inference and Ollama Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIntelPublic · $463.7BCrusoe Cloud and Intel Tiber AI Cloud do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHuawei CloudPrivateCrusoe Managed Inference and MaaS do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Huawei Cloud's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFalPrivateCrusoe Edge Zones and fal Serverless do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and serve a model in production; Fal's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCactus ComputePrivateServerless Fine-Tuning and Cactus Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)Crusoe Managed Inference and Modular Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHumainPrivateCrusoe Cloud and HUMAIN COMPUTE do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Humain's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAlibabaPublic · $273.4BCrusoe Cloud and Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareVMwareAcquiredCrusoe Managed Inference and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDatabricksPrivate · $190BServerless Fine-Tuning and Databricks Model Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (private).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUnslothPrivateCrusoe Cloud and Unsloth do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Unsloth's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSenseTimePublic · $7.7BCrusoe Cloud and SenseCore do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOraclePublic · $454.4BCrusoe Cloud and OCI Compute for GPUs do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompare4ParadigmPublic · $2BCrusoe Spark and 4Paradigm SageOne do comparable work on server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (public).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareTolokaPrivateServerless Fine-Tuning and Toloka Train do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Toloka's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBaiduPublic · $31.6BCrusoe Cloud and Baidu Baige AI Computing Platform do comparable work on GPU cloud and model training; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute, serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareTuringPrivate · $2.2BServerless Fine-Tuning and RL environments do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform and data service rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareThinking Machines LabPrivate · $12BServerless Fine-Tuning and Tinker do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedCrusoe Managed Inference and Civitai API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedServerless Fine-Tuning and Terra do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; similar scale (private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTenstorrentPrivate · $2.6BCrusoe Spark and Tenstorrent Galaxy do comparable work on server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSambaNovaPrivate · $11BCrusoe Spark and SambaRack do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareElasticPublic · $10.2BCrusoe Managed Inference and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public); ships agent platform, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCerebras SystemsPublic · $44.4BServerless Fine-Tuning and Cerebras Training Cloud do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHeliconeAcquiredCrusoe Managed Inference and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEleutherAINonprofitServerless Fine-Tuning and GPT-NeoX do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; EleutherAI is a nonprofit, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCiscoPublic · $433.3BCrusoe Spark and Cisco AI PODs do comparable work on AI compute hardware and server systems; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareNeo4jPrivate · $2BServerless Fine-Tuning and Neo4j Graph Data Science do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareAppenPublicServerless Fine-Tuning and AI Data Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Appen's scale not recorded; ships data service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTencentPublic · $510.1BCrusoe Edge Zones and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on GPU cloud; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute and serve a model in production; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAxelera AIPrivate · $450M raisedCrusoe Spark and Axelera AI Mini PC do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; similar scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKioxiaPublic · $177.9BCrusoe Spark and KIOXIA CM9-V Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSplunkAcquiredOverlaps on evaluation and observability and model training; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BServerless Fine-Tuning and Mistral Forge do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (late-stage private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TServerless Fine-Tuning and Vertex AI Workbench do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BServerless Fine-Tuning and AI21 Post-Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSamsung ElectronicsPublic · $1.2TCrusoe Spark and Samsung Datacenter SSD do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareVercelPrivate · $9.3BCrusoe Managed Inference and Vercel AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TServerless Fine-Tuning and Azure Machine Learning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareCoherePrivate · $7BCrusoe Managed Inference and Model Vault do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (private).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQualcommPublic · $174.9BCrusoe Spark and Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLiquid AIPrivateCrusoe Cloud and LEAP do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production and train or fine-tune a model; Liquid AI's scale not recorded; ships application and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDecartPrivate · $4BCrusoe Managed Inference and Cogito do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSK HynixPublic · $874.5BCrusoe Spark and PEB000 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAmazonPublic · $2.8TCrusoe Spark and AWS Inferentia do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLM StudioPrivateCrusoe Managed Inference and LM Studio do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareArista NetworksPublic · $246.4BCrusoe Spark and 7060X5 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIBMPublic · $216.6BServerless Fine-Tuning and IBM SPSS Modeler do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareApplied MaterialsPublic · $380.7BCrusoe Spark and Enlight 3 Optical Inspection both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; larger scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TCrusoe Managed Inference and Meta Model API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareYandexPublicCrusoe Managed Inference and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Yandex's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHailo TechnologiesAcquired ($340M deal)Crusoe Spark and Hailo-10H do comparable work on AI compute hardware; Hailo Technologies is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKuaishouPublic · $18.6BCrusoe Managed Inference and Vanchin do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSnorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BServerless Fine-Tuning and Snorkel Flow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private); ships agent platform, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BCrusoe Cloud and Open Weights Licensing do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareGraphcorePrivateCrusoe Spark and IPU (Intelligence Processing Unit) both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; Graphcore's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHorizon RoboticsPublic · $8.8BCrusoe Spark and Journey 6 Series do comparable work on AI compute hardware; both also serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; similar scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareInsilico MedicinePublic · $4.3BServerless Fine-Tuning and MMAI Gym do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSiemensPublic · $244.7BServerless Fine-Tuning and Rapidminer AI Studio do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; larger scale (public); ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareSchneider ElectricPublic · $200.4BCrusoe Spark and NetShelter Power Rack 800VDC do comparable work on AI compute hardware; larger scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAdobePublic · $115.9BCrusoe Managed Inference and Adobe Firefly Services both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; larger scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHume AIPrivateServerless Fine-Tuning and Human Feedback API both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Hume AI's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDataikuPrivate · $3.7BServerless Fine-Tuning and Dataiku do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; smaller scale (private).3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BCrusoe Managed Inference and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareGitLabPublic · $8.3BCrusoe Managed Inference and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; similar scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareScale AIPrivate · $29BServerless Fine-Tuning and Scale Data Engine both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; ships data service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareGroqPrivate · $3.5BCrusoe Spark and Groq LPU (GroqChip) both serve buyers who need to buy data-centre AI compute; smaller scale (private).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TBoth rent out Blackwell-class capacity; Crusoe's cloud is built around NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks it buys, so it is an NVIDIA customer as much as a DGX Cloud alternative.7 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSupplierCompareArm HoldingsPublic · $282.8BCrusoe Spark and Arm Neoverse CSS N4 do comparable work on AI compute hardware; larger scale (public).2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareEncordPrivateServerless Fine-Tuning and Physical AI Data both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Encord's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSnowflakePublic · $116BCrusoe Cloud and Snowflake Cortex AI both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; larger scale (public).1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUniphorePrivate · $2.5BCrusoe Managed Inference and Uniphore Model Layer both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; smaller scale (private); ships application, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompare

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 4 Sep 2026

Crunchbase News: Crusoe has "raised nearly $7.2 billion to date," including the $3B Series F announced that week. Mixes large equity and debt-facility financing for data-center buildout. Corrects the previously recorded $2.9B.

Valuation

Press release · 24 Oct 2025

Crusoe, the AI factory company, raising $1.375 billion at a valuation above $10 billion to power the future of AI infrastructure, Crusoe, 2025-10-24. post-money valuation of the round dated 2025-10-24. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · Apr 2026

Forbes company profile for Crusoe, "Employees" stated as of April 2026. Read 2026-08-27.

Founded

Company disclosure · 11 Sep 2026

Crusoe's own newsroom: "The company was founded in 2018 to address the problem of natural gas flaring."

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

Crusoe's own energy line reads "Wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas, carbon capture" under the heading "The energy-first AI factory company" — natural gas is named by the vendor, so "using clean energy" was false as written.

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