COREWEAVE ARENA

Prove production readiness with CoreWeave ARENA

Validate your real workloads on production-grade AI infrastructure and prove readiness before you scale

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Know more, innovate faster

CoreWeave ARENA is an expert-guided environment where you validate your own workloads across the CoreWeave Cloud platform. Benchmark, test, and improve with real performance and cost evidence before moving to production.

Test drive the leading AI cloud

Validate CoreWeave Forge and CoreWeave infrastructure together on your own workload: evals, RL, agents, models, inference, and sandboxes in one guided evaluation.

Scale without surprises

Put your workload under real and simulated load, across deployment patterns, so you know how it will scale and what it will cost before traffic arrives.

Get more insights with CoreWeave ARIA

CoreWeave ARIA, a research agent trained on CoreWeave's own operational patterns, reads your traces and evaluations, explains why a run behaved the way it did, and helps you improve the model with a CoreWeave AI expert alongside.

Benchmark the latest

Run your own workload on the newest infrastructure, often before it's generally available, so you rightsize your decision on the real thing.

HOW ARENA WORKS

Evaluate real workloads with confidence

CoreWeave ARENA provides an end-to-end environment for evaluating real workloads on purpose-built, production-grade AI infrastructure and Forge, CoreWeave's connected developer platform. Evaluate new GPU generations, validate multi-node scaling, pressure-test scheduling and orchestration behavior, test Forge capabilities like evals, agents, and inference, and measure throughput and cost under real load.

1. Define objectives and success criteria

CoreWeave Direct-to-Expert support works with you to align on workload, prerequisites, and the success criteria you can use to evaluate outcomes.

2. Run guided workloads

Your workload runs against the configurations you defined, through guided workflows across Forge and purpose-built AI infrastructure.

3. Review the results

Get reproducible performance and cost results mapped to your success criteria, with clear insights into the drivers behind them.

4. Develop a next-step plan

A clear recommendation that allows your team to proceed through production, validate deeper, refactor, or pause with an evidence-backed path.

GETTING STARTED

Your path into ARENA

ARENA Pass gets you into a guided ARENA evaluation. You request one, get qualified, and get matched with a CoreWeave AI expert who scopes the run around your workload.

How it flows:

  • Request your ARENA Pass
  • Get qualified for the program
  • Get matched with a CoreWeave AI expert
  • Your expert scopes the evaluation to your workload, then your ARENA run begins
14 days free

Your ARENA Pass includes

Full access for 14 days

Dedicated time to evaluate your workload on CoreWeave.

Expanded inference credits

More inference credits than the standard trial.

CoreWeave infrastructure access

Including priority access to latest-generation GPUs

CoreWeave Forge Enterprise

Qualified teams can continue with a 90-day Forge Enterprise trial.

ARENA is available by application only and is not a self-service trial.

Built for AI teams at every stage

Get real performance, cost, and operational evidence before you scale.

CoreWeave ARENA is built for pioneers of every size and level of maturity—from early-stage startups to frontier labs and global enterprises. It delivers clear performance, operational, and cost evidence from real workloads so your teams can move from evaluation to production with speed, precision, and confidence.

Enterprise AI Teams

De-risk production rollout by validating with CoreWeave Mission Control visibility into multi-node behavior, operational signals, and cost drivers, backed by a clear production recommendation.

AI Labs

Run training and inference at production scale, track experiments with CoreWeave Forge, and validate performance, scaling, and cost before you commit to an infrastructure path.

AI Native Startups

Prove scaling and cost fundamentals early so you can choose a deployment path with confidence as usage ramps, without spending cycles on bespoke infrastructure work.

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Founder Stories

Today, founders of AI-native start-ups use CoreWeave ARENA to accelerate the pace of progress with high-performance compute, advanced tooling, and AI expertise. But ARENA’s roots stretch back to CoreWeave’s creation in a New Jersey warehouse.

CoreWeave ARENA empowers  AI pioneers with access to what they need

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Brian Venturo revisits CoreWeave’s gritty early days.

Axiom

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Rime

Rime creates realistic AI voice models that enhance human interactions

Co-Founder and CEO Lily Clifford describes the difficulties and thrills of creating lifelike voices.

Anam

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Proven by leading pioneers at production scale

you.com
One of the things that drove us toward CoreWeave ARENA is the deep level of observability and metrics across each part of the system. It provides an F1 cockpit feeling, giving you all the instrumentation you need. Excellent engineering support helped us get unblocked when meeting tight latency requirements with the models we were using.
Bojan Babic, Staff Research Engineer, You.com
Running our real workloads on production-scale infrastructure gave us early, concrete insight into both performance and cost, which helped us evaluate next steps as we plan for scale, without slowing down execution.
Xander Dunn, Member of Technical Staff, Periodic Labs
IBM
CoreWeave is building the foundation for AI model development for us by creating a high-performing GPU environment with customized storage systems that keep those GPUs fed. This, together with it being serviced 24/7, enables our researchers globally to move at the rate and pace this industry requires.
Hillery Hunter, CTO and GM of Innovation, IBM Infrastructure
cohere
We knew we needed a partner who could not only provide the compute but also move at the pace of our team. CoreWeave’s team already demonstrated their excellent partnership for previous deployments, so we knew we were in good hands.
Autumn Moulder, VP of Engineering, Cohere
General Intuition
On other providers, our distributed jobs were failing on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times per day. On CoreWeave, long-running training jobs were far more stable.
Florian Laurent, Infra Lead / Member of Founding Team, General Intuition

Real-world AI workloads, proven in CoreWeave ARENA

With CoreWeave ARENA, pioneers bring their models, pipelines, and data patterns and run them through notebook-based guided workflows. They can easily surface bottlenecks, confirm scaling behavior, and understand cost drivers. The result is a clear view of performance, cost, and platform behavior under production-like conditions.

AI model training

Prove multi-node scaling, throughput, and communication behavior under real load.

Agentic AI

Test latency, throughput, and concurrency on production-like traffic patterns, and trace and evaluate agent behavior with CoreWeave Agent Lens.

Reinforcement learning (RL)

Validate rollout throughput, environment I/O, and scaling for RL, including key cost drivers.
SELF START IN FORGE

Not ready for ARENA?

Still exploring or testing ideas? Start with CoreWeave Forge, where you can build and iterate on your own terms before committing to anything bigger. Once you're ready for production, apply for a CoreWeave ARENA Pass.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Apply for CoreWeave ARENA Pass

CoreWeave ARENA Pass is open to qualified teams with production-bound workloads. Tell us about your workload and we'll confirm fit, success criteria, and timing before scheduling.