# How NovelAI uses CoreWeave

**75%**: “saving 75% in cloud costs”

As published on [wf.coreweave.com](https://wf.coreweave.com/resources/case-studies/how-coreweave-helped-novelai-grow-from-0-to-40k-users-in-3-months), October 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [NovelAI](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/novelai.md)
- Tool: [CoreWeave](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/coreweave.md)

## What the story says

NovelAI runs its 'Sigurd' storytelling model, based on GPT-J 6B, on CoreWeave's Kubernetes-based GPU infrastructure to serve AI-assisted story writing and text-adventure requests to its users. Dynamic scalers add or remove GPUs according to demand.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of CoreWeave and NovelAI, not ours.

> CoreWeave’s deployment architecture enables us to scale up extremely fast when there is more demand. We are able to serve requests 3x faster after migrating to CoreWeave, leading to a much better user experience while saving 75% in cloud costs.

- **3x**: “CoreWeave helps NovelAI serve requests 3x faster, resulting in a much enhanced user experience and significantly better performance-adjusted cost.”
- **40K**: “The company officially launched in late April of 2021 and has quickly built a passionate base of more than 10K active subscribers who create daily content and 40K registered users.”

> CoreWeave’s deployment architecture enables us to scale up extremely fast when there is more demand. We are able to serve requests 3x faster after migrating to CoreWeave, leading to a much better user experience while saving 75% in cloud costs. For the users, this means the generation speeds will never slow down, even when there is peak load.
>
> Eren Doğan, CEO NovelAI

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 75% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of NovelAI.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of NovelAI.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: NovelAI uses CoreWeave. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/novelai-coreweave · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology