{ "schema": "secondrun.clustermax-medals.v1", "release": "3.0", "published_date": "2026-09-23", "published_date_source": "https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-30-the-industry-standard JSON-LD \"datePublished\":\"2026-09-23T21:20:29+00:00\"; corroborated by Jordan Nanos tweet https://x.com/JordanNanos/status/2102871532267847699 posted ~21:23 UTC same day", "sources": [ { "url": "https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-30-the-industry-standard", "sha256": "91fa2e524fd5a9239a23cfba6f69eecb94046cdb6743c7c80e9737aa0d059ebb", "retrieved_utc": "2026-09-23T21:38:10Z", "kind": "landing_page", "note": "og:title \"ClusterMAX 3.0: The Industry Standard GPU Cloud Rating System Returns\"; found via slug guess after clustermax.ai had not yet published a /v3.0 or /v3 page (site sitemap.xml unchanged, both 404 as of retrieval)" }, { "url": "https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2130ed4-61b4-49a8-98e5-03408801831c_1432x880.png", "sha256": "79dc81e4cf7a503632c631b69f011f2a7af109e719cc32253344820cda402e02", "retrieved_utc": "2026-09-23T21:38:10Z", "kind": "medal_table_image", "note": "Full-resolution source image (1432x880 PNG, 353995 bytes matching the post's embedded data-attrs byte count) embedded in the ClusterMAX 3.0 newsletter body; fetched directly from S3 origin, bypassing the Substack CDN's downscaled/webp renditions. This is the primary transcription source." }, { "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HS7mSN3bcAAtDLs.jpg?name=orig", "sha256": "5477994f1bf0881f02175344123eb167eddcded31c6cb7471fdeb5fe018b5c51", "retrieved_utc": "2026-09-23T21:38:10Z", "kind": "cross_check_image", "note": "Image attached to Jordan Nanos's announcement tweet (https://x.com/JordanNanos/status/2102871532267847699), same 1432x880 dimensions as the newsletter source PNG; used only to cross-check the transcription, not as the primary read" }, { "url": "https://www.clustermax.ai/sitemap.xml", "sha256": "12707b3a83a8c7c0fda474579d54a7c3d0e1274b13b9e0c58562508a1474b2f7", "retrieved_utc": "2026-09-23T21:38:10Z", "kind": "negative_check", "note": "clustermax.ai has not yet published a v3.0/v3 page as of retrieval; sitemap still lists only v1/v2/v2.1. /v3.0 and /v3 both returned 404. Kept for the record that the medal table was sourced from the newsletter, not the clustermax.ai site." } ], "providers": [ {"name": "CoreWeave", "tier": "Platinum", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Nebius", "tier": "Platinum", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Oracle", "tier": "Gold", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Google Cloud", "tier": "Gold", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Azure", "tier": "Silver", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Firmus", "tier": "Silver", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Lambda", "tier": "Silver", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "GMI", "tier": "Silver", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "TensorWave", "tier": "Silver", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "AWS", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "GCore", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo reads \"GCORE\""}, {"name": "Verda", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo captioned \"formerly DataCrunch\""}, {"name": "moonlite", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": "Promoted from Unavailable (2.1) to Bronze (3.0)"}, {"name": "Prime Intellect", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "together.ai", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Crusoe", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "DigitalOcean", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "GMO GPU Cloud", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo reads \"GMO / GPUクラウド\" (Japanese for \"GPU Cloud\")"}, {"name": "Hyperstack", "tier": "Bronze", "confidence": "high", "note": ""}, {"name": "Vultr", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "New tier between Bronze and Underperforming, introduced in 3.0; badge graphic is a blue ribbon/rosette reading \"ClusterMAX 3.0\" on the medallion and \"PARTICIPATION\" vertically on the ribbon tail -- no literal word \"Ribbon\" appears in the image itself, the tier is conveyed by the ribbon-shaped badge graphic plus the word \"PARTICIPATION\""}, {"name": "neysa", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "New tier between Bronze and Underperforming"}, {"name": "VESSL AI", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Promoted from Unavailable (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Shadeform", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "RunPod", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Radiant", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "FPT AI Factory", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Core42", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "latitude.sh", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "IBM Cloud", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Buzz HPC", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Vast.ai", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "BitDeer", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "Hyperbolic", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "high", "note": "Promoted from Underperforming (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0)"}, {"name": "STN", "tier": "Participation Ribbon", "confidence": "low", "note": "Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Participation Ribbon (3.0); small circular logo reading \"STN\", full company name not spelled out in image (same ambiguity noted in 2.0/2.1 transcriptions)"}, {"name": "Sharon AI", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label in image is \"Not Recommended\" (ranking-column text), with sub-header \"Underperforming\" above this block of logos"}, {"name": "IREN", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Hydra", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "FarmGPU", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Whitefiber", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "PaleBlueDot.AI", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Akamai", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Hetzner", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Mithril", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "OVHcloud", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "Massed Compute", "tier": "Underperforming", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Underperforming\""}, {"name": "FluidStack", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Gold (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "Cirrascale", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Silver (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "Lightning AI", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0). Article body text: \"Lightning AI (recently merged with Voltage Park)\" -- the combined company \"has unfortunately run out of GPUs, and we haven't been able to test the reconciled products.\" Voltage Park was Silver in 2.1 as a standalone entry; it no longer appears standalone in 3.0 (its capacity/brand folded into this Lightning AI entry). This is a different company from the separately-listed \"Volta\" entry in this same tier."}, {"name": "Scaleway", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Silver (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "Cudo Compute", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "DENVR Dataworks", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "Atlas Cloud", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Demoted from Bronze (2.1) to Unavailable (3.0)"}, {"name": "SpaceX", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". New entrant, not present in 2.1 image. Article body text names it \"SpaceXAI\" in its prose enumeration of this tier; logo itself just reads \"SPACEX\""}, {"name": "Mistral AI", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo stylized \"MISTRAL AI_\" (same rendering ambiguity noted for this logo in 2.0/2.1). Article body text confirms this is Mistral (the LLM lab) testing bare-metal/managed clusters, resolving the 2.0/2.1 uncertainty about whether it's a separate compute division. Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\""}, {"name": "PIC", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Small square logo reading only \"PIC\"; full name confirmed as \"Poolside Infrastructure Company\" by the article body text's prose enumeration of this tier. New entrant, not present in 2.1 image. Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\""}, {"name": "NScale", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Appears as \"Nscale\" in 2.1; unchanged tier"}, {"name": "Highrise", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Corvex", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Andromeda", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Bare logomark in the image itself: a capital \"A\" plus a 4-square checkerboard glyph, no company name text rendered near the logo at any zoom level tried (up to 14x). Identified as \"Andromeda\" from the article body text's prose enumeration of this tier's new entrants, which lists it between \"Corvex\" and \"Volta\" -- the same left-to-right order the two logos appear in the image. New entrant, not present in 2.1 image. Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\""}, {"name": "Volta", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo reads \"VOLTA\" with a trailing orange arrow/chevron. Confirmed by article body text as a distinct company literally named \"Volta\", separate from \"Voltage Park\" -- the same article text elsewhere describes \"Lightning AI (recently merged with Voltage Park)\" as a separate, different combined entity (see Lightning AI's note). New entrant, not present in 2.1 image. Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\""}, {"name": "firebird", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Tatra SuperCompute", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Sesterce", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "groq", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". New entrant, not present in 2.1 image"}, {"name": "Yotta", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "darya.ai", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". New entrant, not present in 2.1 image"}, {"name": "boostrun", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "GLOBAL AI", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". New entrant, not present in 2.1 image; stacked \"GLOBAL / AI\" wordmark next to a circular circuit-pattern icon, name confirmed as \"GlobalAI\" by the article body text's prose enumeration of this tier"}, {"name": "Argentum", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Logo reads \"Argentum\" followed by a separate angular \"/I\\i\" glyph mark (decorative, not part of the name); name confirmed as \"Argentum\" by the article body text's prose enumeration of this tier. Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". New entrant, not present in 2.1 image"}, {"name": "QumulusAI", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Alibaba Cloud", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "MegaSpeed International", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Appears as \"MegaSpeed International\" in 2.1; unchanged tier"}, {"name": "BytePlus", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Humain", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "SK telecom", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "NAVER", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"}, {"name": "Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison", "tier": "Unavailable", "confidence": "high", "note": "Row group label \"Not Recommended\" / sub-header \"Unavailable\". Unchanged from 2.1"} ], "unresolved": [ "STN (Participation Ribbon): logo is a plain circular wordmark reading only \"STN\"; no fuller company name is rendered anywhere in the image, same ambiguity as in the 2.0/2.1 transcriptions -- left at confidence:low rather than guessed." ] }