Member

Create your first GPU instance, connect with JupyterLab or SSH, and control costs.

This quickstart is for Members (end users). If you’re the first person in your org, you’re also the Admin. See the Admin quickstart after completing this flow.

1. Create account

   Go to cloud.vessl.ai and create an account. Verify your email to activate your account.

   
2. Complete your profile

   After verifying your email, enter your ID (username), select your Occupation and Use case. Check the required boxes to agree to the Terms of Service and confirm your age, then click Let’s get started!

   
3. Create organization

   Enter your organization name and click Create to set up your workspace.

   
4. Explore the dashboard

   After creating your organization, you’ll land on the main Workspaces dashboard. This is where you can manage all your compute environments.

   
5. Register payment method

   Before creating workspaces, register a payment method. Go to Organization > Billing in the sidebar. Click Manage payment method to add your card, then use Add credits to top up your credit balance.

   
6. Create a storage volume

   VESSL Cloud offers three storage types. Picking the right one up front avoids I/O bottlenecks and accidental data loss later.

   Storage	Speed	Data on pause	Best for
   Cluster storage	Fast (CephFS/NVMe)	Preserved	Code, virtual environments, and anything you want to keep across pauses — mount at /root
   Object storage	Slower (S3-backed)	Preserved	Datasets, model checkpoints, and files shared across teams or clusters — mount at /shared
   Temporary storage	Fast (local disk)	Cleared	Scratch work only; everything here disappears the moment you pause or terminate

   If you rely only on Temporary storage, your code and data disappear when you pause the workspace. Always attach at least one persistent volume (Cluster storage or Object storage) before running important work.

   For this quickstart, create an Object storage volume — it works even before your admin provisions Cluster storage. Click Object storage in the sidebar and click Create new volume. Enter a Volume name and Description to create an Object storage volume.

   

   Cluster storage volumes are managed by Organization Admins. If Cluster storage is available for your team, you can also create volumes under Cluster storage in the sidebar.

   • Mount Cluster storage at /root so code, ~/.cache, and pip/conda packages survive pauses.
   • Mount Object storage at /shared — VESSL Cloud rejects /root as an Object storage mount path because Object storage is slower and has different filesystem semantics. Other paths that overlap with your Cluster storage mount are also blocked.
   • Cluster storage is region-bound: only volumes from the same region as your selected GPU appear when creating a workspace.
7. Create a workspace

   Open the Workspace tab in the sidebar and click New Workspace. Enter a name, then select a GPU product, region, and GPU count under Resource spec for testing.

   Attach the Object storage volume you just created, then click Create.

   

   You can run Jupyter notebooks directly in this workspace.

8. Explore workspace details

   

   • Connect: In the workspace detail page, open the Connect tab to access using Jupyter (port 8888) or SSH (port 22). See Connect.
   • Details: view GPU, volumes, image and other specs.
   • Logs: view container logs in real time.
   • Metrics: monitor CPU/GPU/Memory graphs.
9. Run code in JupyterLab

   In the workspace detail page, open the Connect tab and click JupyterLab.

   

   In JupyterLab, create a Notebook → Python 3 (ipykernel). Run the following code:

   print("Hello, VESSL Cloud!")
   

   If the output prints successfully, your environment is ready.

   To connect with SSH instead, follow Connect to generate/select an SSH key and copy the SSH command.

10. Clean up

    To avoid charges: go to the Workspaces tab in the sidebar and open the kebab menu on a running workspace. Click Pause to stop billing for compute, or Terminate to delete the workspace permanently.

    

    Paused workspaces may still incur storage charges (Cluster storage is billed at $0.20/GiB/month). Terminated workspaces incur no cost. Data in Temporary storage is not preserved when paused.

    To permanently remove a workspace: Click Terminate from the kebab menu and confirm by typing the workspace name and clicking Delete.