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# List Hardware Tiers

> GPU tiers you can train on, with the token rate each one bills at.

Tiers that are present but switched off are returned with ``available: false``
rather than hidden, so a client can tell "not a tier" from "not right now".



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /v1/hardware_tiers
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Kite Platform API
  description: >-
    Public API for Kite. Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer kite_...`, and
    send `Kite-Version: 2026-09-27` to pin the dated contract your code was
    written against (without it you get 2026-09-27). Every response carries the
    version that served it.
  version: '2026-09-27'
servers:
  - url: https://api.kiteml.com
    description: Kite Platform API
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Augmentations
    description: Generate new episodes from a LeRobot dataset.
  - name: Training runs
    description: Fine-tune a policy on a dataset, one run per policy.
  - name: Twins
    description: Rebuild a robot episode as an interactable MuJoCo scene (private beta).
  - name: Catalog
    description: Policies, hardware tiers, and dataset inspection.
  - name: Operations
    description: Poll any run by its id.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Endpoints that receive events, and the event log.
  - name: API keys
    description: The key making the request.
  - name: Usage
    description: Token usage and credit balance.
paths:
  /v1/hardware_tiers:
    get:
      tags:
        - Catalog
      summary: List Hardware Tiers
      description: >-
        GPU tiers you can train on, with the token rate each one bills at.


        Tiers that are present but switched off are returned with ``available:
        false``

        rather than hidden, so a client can tell "not a tier" from "not right
        now".
      operationId: list_hardware_tiers_v1_hardware_tiers_get
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/KiteVersion'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Every tier, including those switched off
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HardwareTierList'
        '400':
          description: >-
            Invalid request (`parameter_invalid`, `unsupported_version`, ...);
            `param` names the field
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key (`unauthenticated`)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The key lacks a scope this route needs (`missing_scope`), or the
            feature is not enabled for the account
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '429':
          description: >-
            Rate or concurrency limited (`rate_limit_exceeded`,
            `concurrency_limit_exceeded`, `capacity_exceeded`); honor
            `Retry-After`
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
components:
  parameters:
    KiteVersion:
      name: Kite-Version
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        The dated contract your code was written against. Without it you get
        2026-09-27; every response says which version served it.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
          - '2026-09-27'
        default: '2026-09-27'
  schemas:
    HardwareTierList:
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
          enum:
            - list
          const: list
          title: Object
        data:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/HardwareTier'
          type: array
          title: Data
        has_more:
          type: boolean
          title: Has More
          description: 'Always false: the catalog is one page'
        next_cursor:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Next Cursor
          description: Always null
      type: object
      required:
        - object
        - data
        - has_more
        - next_cursor
      title: HardwareTierList
    ApiErrorResponse:
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorBody'
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      title: ApiErrorResponse
      description: Every /v1 error has this shape.
    HardwareTier:
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
          enum:
            - hardware_tier
          const: hardware_tier
          title: Object
        id:
          type: string
          title: Id
          description: Pass it as `hardware_tier` to POST /v1/training_runs
        name:
          type: string
          title: Name
        description:
          type: string
          title: Description
        gpu_type:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Gpu Type
          description: Null on a CPU tier
        gpu_count:
          type: integer
          title: Gpu Count
        cpu:
          type: string
          title: Cpu
          description: vCPUs of the machine a run trains on, e.g. `8`
        memory:
          type: string
          title: Memory
          description: Memory of that machine, e.g. `30Gi`
        available:
          type: boolean
          title: Available
          description: False for a tier that exists but is switched off for now
        tokens_per_hour:
          type: integer
          title: Tokens Per Hour
          description: What an hour on it costs, in tokens
      type: object
      required:
        - object
        - id
        - name
        - description
        - gpu_type
        - gpu_count
        - cpu
        - memory
        - available
        - tokens_per_hour
      title: HardwareTier
      description: A tier a training run can use.
      examples:
        - available: true
          cpu: '8'
          description: Fast
          gpu_count: 1
          gpu_type: nvidia-tesla-t4
          id: gcp_gpu_t4
          memory: 30Gi
          name: NVIDIA T4
          object: hardware_tier
          tokens_per_hour: 500
    ApiErrorBody:
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          title: Type
          description: >-
            invalid_request_error, authentication_error, permission_error,
            not_found_error, conflict_error, rate_limit_error, or api_error
        code:
          type: string
          title: Code
          description: 'Machine-readable: branch on this, not on the message'
        message:
          type: string
          title: Message
        param:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Param
          description: The request field the error is about, when there is one
        request_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Request Id
          description: Also in the X-Request-Id header; quote it to support
        details:
          anyOf:
            - type: object
            - type: 'null'
          title: Details
          description: >-
            Extra data for some codes (e.g. the cameras a dataset does have, for
            camera_not_found)
      type: object
      required:
        - type
        - code
        - message
      title: ApiErrorBody
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A Kite API key (`kite_...`), from **Platform API → Keys** in the
        dashboard.

````