Arker
Arker provides an API-first platform for building and managing cloud VM infrastructure specifically for production agentic workloads. The company operates a global fleet of bare metal compute with a proprietary hypervisor, enabling developers to programmatically control hardware, location, and auto-scaling policies to cut costs by 2x-20x while maintaining a 99.9% uptime SLA.
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Production agentic workloads require cloud VM infrastructure with strict reliability and cost guarantees, yet existing bare metal and sandbox providers either offer sub-99.9% uptime or force developers into expensive, inflexible contracts. Managing VMs across diverse hardware types (AMD, ARM, x86), regions, and pricing pools is a manual, error-prone process that limits scalability and operational control.
Solution
Arker.ai delivers a unified API and code-driven platform for building and managing VM infrastructure at extreme scale. The platform operates a global fleet of bare metal compute paired with a proprietary hypervisor designed for agentic workloads, using hierarchical cloud storage to achieve higher availability and lower cost than traditional providers. Developers programmatically control location, hardware selection, pooling, and auto-scaling policies, cutting VM costs by 2x-20x while improving performance by 1.5x-10x. Arker provides strict 99.9% SLAs, global region selection to co-locate with backend data, and the ability to deploy into private regions for VPC or on-prem hardware clusters.
Target Audience
Primary customers are engineering teams and platform builders running production agentic workloads who need cost-optimized, high-availability VM infrastructure without the operational overhead of managing bare metal vendors directly.
Features
- API-first VM management with programmable auto-scaling policies, enabling location and hardware optimization (AMD/ARM/x86) across AWS, GCP, Hetzner, and other providers
- Proprietary hypervisor built around hierarchical cloud storage, delivering 99.9% uptime SLA and 1.5x-10x performance gains for production agentic workloads
- Global availability across public regions and support for private regions (VPC or on-prem clusters) with the control plane running in the cloud for hyper-elastic orchestration
- Live status page and transparent SLA documentation with region-specific uptime tracking
- Open-source interop planned via BLAST (800+ stars), enabling VMs-as-a-service with seamless cloud VM compatibility