Assess real workload performance and cost on our purpose-built AI cloud before you commit to production
CoreWeave AI Ready, Native Applications (ARENA) gives AI teams the performance signals, cost transparency, and direct-to-expert guidance they need to move to production with confidence. Run and evaluate real workloads in an industry-leading AI lab for production readiness and leave with concrete insights and recommendations designed to accelerate your path to innovation.
With CoreWeave ARENA, you experience:
Run your real models and pipelines on CoreWeave’s purpose-built AI Cloud at production scale—no synthetic tests.
See exactly where performance is gained or lost with CoreWeave Mission Control™ insights into communication, scheduling, and multi-node behavior.
Leave with reproducible performance and cost results you can use to inform budget and production decisions.
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.
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.
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.
CoreWeave delivered the best training performance we’ve seen so far. Best-in-class configuration and an exceptional customer experience. CoreWeave is now our preferred cloud for intensive training workloads.
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.
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 they can move from evaluation to production with speed, precision, and confidence.
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.
Run training and inference at production scale to validate performance, scaling, and cost before you commit to an infrastructure path.
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.
CoreWeave ARENA provides an end-to-end environment for evaluating real workloads on purpose-built, production-grade AI infrastructure. Evaluate new GPU generations, validate multi-node scaling, pressure-test scheduling and orchestration behavior, and measure throughput and cost under real load. For data-intensive runs, leverage CoreWeave LOTA™ to test high-throughput data movement from storage to GPUs. Guided workflows, CoreWeave Mission Control visibility, and direct-to-expert support help teams complete an evaluation and define next steps.
CoreWeave ARENA is a structured, notebook-driven evaluation designed to get you to a first real run fast. Start in a pre-built Marimo environment with baseline health checks. Then run workload-shaped tests that mirror how you plan to operate in production. You can keep your existing tools, including integrations like Weights & Biases, while CoreWeave Mission Control provides the operational view into what’s happening beneath the workload.
You’ll evaluate the CoreWeave platform elements that matter for your workload and your definition of production readiness.
Benchmark baseline training and inference performance performed on the target GPU architecture prior to validating readiness to ship to production.
Get baseline, end-to-end observability through dashboards, with optional CoreWeave Mission Control Agent support. Surface bottlenecks, communication overhead, and scheduling effects.
CoreWeave ARENA is for workloads you want to validate end to end before committing to production. Teams bring their models, pipelines, and data patterns and run them through notebook-based guided workflows to 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.
If you’re looking for more guidance, we’re here to help:
CoreWeave ARENA gives teams a real, production-grade environment with dedicated capacity to run their actual workloads on modern GPU configurations and tooling, then scale up safely to surface bottlenecks early (comms, scheduling, data paths, stability) before production. It’s a guided lab with defined configs and outputs—but the key difference is you’re not guessing from small tests or waiting on ad-hoc capacity. You’re proving performance, cost behavior, and production readiness under real conditions.
Currently, only existing CoreWeave customers are eligible. Applications for new teams open in Q2 2026.
It depends on region, capacity, and your evaluation goals. We match configurations during qualification.
Engagements are time-bounded and scheduled based on workload needs and capacity. The typical cycle for a benchmark evaluation is 14 days.
CoreWeave ARENA evaluations may be paid, with commercial terms determined during qualification. Customers who proceed to production have evaluation fees credited/waived based on agreed terms.
Start by checking eligibility. If you’re a fit, we’ll confirm prerequisites and align on success criteria before scheduling.
In CoreWeave ARENA, you can validate end-to-end performance and production readiness across the CoreWeave stack using your real models and pipelines. This typically includes GPU Compute, CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS) for orchestration (including SLURM/SUNK where applicable), Storage (including AI Object Storage and LOTA scenarios), Networking for multi-node scaling behavior, and Mission Control for operational visibility and observability. Availability may vary by region and lab configuration.
This program is currently open to existing CoreWeave customers only. New teams may submit this form to register interest; applications for new customers will open in Q2 2026.
