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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.
Sign up on VESSL Cloud.
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!
Complete profile on VESSL Cloud.
3

Create organization

Enter your organization name and click Create to set up your workspace.
Create organization on VESSL Cloud.
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.
Main dashboard on VESSL Cloud.
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.
Billing page on VESSL Cloud.
6

Create a storage volume

VESSL Cloud provides two storage types:
  • Object storage: S3-backed, accessible across all clusters. Ideal for sharing data.
  • Cluster storage: High-performance CephFS/NVMe, bound to one cluster. Ideal for code and environments.
Click Object storage in the sidebar and click Create new volume. Enter a Volume name and Description to create an Object storage volume.
Object storage on VESSL Cloud.
Object storage is slower than Cluster storage and not suitable as your main workspace. Do not mount it at /root — use a path like /shared instead.
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.Since $HOME (/root) is the home directory in workspaces, we recommend mounting your Cluster storage volume at $HOME for easy access.Cluster storage is region-bound — when creating a workspace, only volumes from the same region as your selected GPU will appear.
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.
Create a workspace on VESSL Cloud.
You can run Jupyter notebooks directly in this workspace.
8

Explore workspace details

Workspace details on VESSL Cloud.
  • 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.
Workspace connect page on VESSL Cloud.
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 Workspace tab in the sidebar, stop a running workspace from the kebab menu, and confirm Pause Workspace and Terminate to completely delete the workspace.
Pause and terminate workspace on VESSL Cloud.
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.