prime
Prime Intellect CLI + SDK
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Yes, if you use Prime Intellect's platform. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no license restrictions, and provides both CLI and SDK access to the service. Install only if you have a Prime Intellect account and API key; the CLI and SDK are tightly coupled to that platform and will not function standalone.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires a Prime Intellect account and valid API key (obtain from https://app.primeintellect.ai).
- Python 3.11–3.13 required.
- Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license (permissive) imposes no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution.
last release 2026-08-13 (1 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 286 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 76,426 downloads/mo, #14,627 on PyPI
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# Install
pip install prime
# Authenticate
export PRIME_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
# CLI: list available GPUs
prime availability list
# Python SDK: create and manage a sandbox
from prime_sandboxes import APIClient, SandboxClient, CreateSandboxRequest
client = APIClient(api_key="your-api-key")
sandbox_client = SandboxClient(client)
sandbox = sandbox_client.create(CreateSandboxRequest(
name="my-sandbox",
docker_image="python:3.11-slim",
))- Whether prime-sandboxes, prime-evals, prime-tunnel, and verifiers are separate packages or bundled; their availability and stability.
- Network connectivity and API key requirements for any CLI or SDK operation.
- Whether the CLI can function offline or requires active Prime Intellect account.
- GPU availability and pricing model on the Prime Intellect platform.
What it is and what it does
Prime is the official CLI and Python SDK for Prime Intellect, a cloud platform offering GPU compute, isolated sandbox environments, and hosted training infrastructure. It lets you deploy GPU pods (H100, A100, etc.), create and manage remote sandboxes for code execution, launch training runs, browse pre-configured development environments, and manage team resources—all from the command line or Python code.
The package bundles a rich terminal UI (via textual and textual-plot), configuration management, SSH pod access, and both synchronous and asynchronous Python SDKs. It depends on httpx for HTTP requests, pydantic for data validation, and several Prime-specific packages (prime-sandboxes, prime-evals, prime-tunnel, verifiers) that appear to be separate but required runtime dependencies.
Use it for
- Deploy and manage GPU pods for distributed machine learning training without managing infrastructure.
- Create isolated sandbox environments to run untrusted or experimental code safely.
- Launch and monitor hosted training runs with configurable models and resource allocation.
- Browse and install pre-configured development environments from the Prime Intellect community hub.
- Programmatically provision compute resources and execute remote commands via the Python SDK.
- Switch between personal and team contexts to manage shared resources and permissions.
Worth the install?
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Yes, if you use Prime Intellect's platform.
The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no license restrictions, and provides both CLI and SDK access to the service. Install only if you have a Prime Intellect account and API key; the CLI and SDK are tightly coupled to that platform and will not function standalone.
Install
prime on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Active maintenance with a release one day old and last commit on 2026-08-14. Requires Python 3.11–3.13; 16 runtime dependencies including httpx, pydantic, and textual for CLI rendering.
Requires a Prime Intellect account and valid API key (obtain from https://app.primeintellect.ai). Python 3.11–3.13 required.
License in practice
MIT license (permissive) imposes no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution.
Quickstart
# Install
pip install prime
# Authenticate
export PRIME_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
# CLI: list available GPUs
prime availability list
# Python SDK: create and manage a sandbox
from prime_sandboxes import APIClient, SandboxClient, CreateSandboxRequest
client = APIClient(api_key="your-api-key")
sandbox_client = SandboxClient(client)
sandbox = sandbox_client.create(CreateSandboxRequest(
name="my-sandbox",
docker_image="python:3.11-slim",
))Verify before relying
- Whether prime-sandboxes, prime-evals, prime-tunnel, and verifiers are separate packages or bundled; their availability and stability.
- Network connectivity and API key requirements for any CLI or SDK operation.
- Whether the CLI can function offline or requires active Prime Intellect account.
- GPU availability and pricing model on the Prime Intellect platform.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <3.14,>=3.11 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 16 packagesbuildcryptographygitignore-parserhttpxprime-evalsprime-sandboxesprime-tunnelpydanticpyyamlrichtextual-plottextualtomltomlityperverifiers |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 1 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 76,426 / month, #14,627 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 4 - BetaEnvironment :: ConsoleIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules |
Evidence: prime-0.6.22-py3-none-any.whl
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