ClearML vs SkyPilot

ClearML is an AI infrastructure platform organized into an Infrastructure Control Plane, AI Development Center, and GenAI App Engine. The Control Plane manages GPU resources across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, including multi-tenant GPU-as-a-Service. The Development Center supports developing, training, testing, and deploying AI/ML models, with monitoring, pipelines, a model repository, and CI/CD integration. The GenAI App Engine deploys LLMs on compute clusters and provides networking, authentication, access control, and monitoring. Experiment tracking, comparisons, artifacts, metrics and plots, and Git version control integration appear across the listed tiers. Integrations include PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, Optuna, Hydra, TensorBoard, Matplotlib, and LangChain; storage integrations include AWS S3, Azure, Google Storage, MinIO, and Backblaze B2. ClearML can be hosted on its servers, self-hosted, or provided as a managed service, with VPC, on-premises including air-gapped, and hybrid options. Community is free; Pro costs $15 a month per user plus usage. Scale and Enterprise pricing is by quote.

SkyPilot is an AI compute platform that manages Kubernetes, Slurm, virtual machines, on-premises systems and cloud resources through one interface. Listed workloads include development, pre-training, post-training and reinforcement learning, batch inference, sandboxes and inference endpoints. Scheduling provides priority queues, GPU sharing, quotas and intelligent placement across workloads. Fleet health checks can run proactively or reactively, with automatic remediation for GPU and NCCL faults. Integrations include AWS, GCP, Azure, Nebius, CoreWeave, Lambda, RunPod, Kubernetes, Slurm and on-premises infrastructure. SkyPilot can run standalone or connect to a remote API server for multi-user collaboration. Enterprise controls include SSO onboarding, RBAC, workspaces, policy enforcement, a unified dashboard, idle-compute stopping and cost reporting. Deployment options include BYOC, BYOK, private VPC and air-gapped environments. The project began as open source at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab and is offered as open source. Documentation says Slurm support remains under active development and SkyServe on Slurm is not supported.