# Compute

User and developer documentation for the i3D.net Compute products.

## Dedicated Bare Metal server

A Dedicated Bare Metal server is a powerful single-tenant machine that has no virtualization layer and allows full control of the hardware for increased compute efficiency and security (no noisy neighbors). The hardware can be customized upon customer request.

Dedicated servers are billed monthly and can be ordered by contacting the i3D.net sales team.

* [API Documentation](/api/api_general.md#v3-flexmetal-servers)
* [Catalog](/compute/api/catalog.md)

## FlexMetal

FlexMetal is a bare metal server provisioning platform that combines the efficiency and flexibility of cloud services with the performance of dedicated hardware on either hourly or monthly billing.

FlexMetal offers two deployment options:

* **On-demand**: Provides compute resources allocated on a first-come, first-served basis; capacity is not guaranteed.
* **Committed**: Requires a Contract ID and offers a guaranteed base level of resources, supplemented by additional on-demand capacity for non-guaranteed bursts.

Please get in touch with i3D.net sales team to learn more about the product state and roadmap.

## Related topics

* [What is FlexMetal?](https://github.com/i3D-net/docs.i3d.net/blob/main/Compute/FlexMetal/WhatisFlexMetal.md)
* [API Documentation](/compute/flexmetal/api.md)


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