Concepts

Start with four questions

Almost every launch question reduces to these four. Answer them in order and the dashboard stops feeling like a menu of choices:

1. What hardware do I need? Platform Overview tells you the pieces — including whether you want a single-node or a multi-node 2X layout.
2. How will usage be charged? Pricing and Billing explains the meter, including how a 2X pair is billed as one line item.
3. Can I get that hardware right now? Availability is the reality check.
4. What should I test first? Getting Started gets you running.

The honest bit

The current workflow is dashboard-based: create and manage instances by hand. Public API, CLI, SDK, and serverless aren't published yet — treat them as unavailable until ANK says otherwise. Persistent storage plans are available separately from compute. We'll add new capabilities here before you build on them.