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Nirvana Labs is a high-performance cloud infrastructure provider tailored for Web3, offering bare-metal compute, block storage, private networking, and managed Kubernetes. It supports blockchain nodes, RPC, indexers, sequencers, and other latency-sensitive workloads with low-latency, high-throughput environments. Its adaptive block storage delivers consistent IOPS, while private fiber networking reduces cross-cloud latency and egress costs.
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About Nirvana Labs
Nirvana Labs is a high-performance storage cloud designed for blockchain, AI, and database workloads. Its core product, Accelerated Block Storage (ABS), delivers 20K sustained baseline IOPS with bursts up to 600K, sub-millisecond latency, and flat pricing at $0.0935 per GB-month, scaling from 32GB to 4PB. The platform also offers Nirvana Kubernetes Service (NKS) with Karpenter auto-scaling and isolated Agent Sandboxes for running untrusted or agent-generated code.
The market pain points it addresses include the unpredictable performance of traditional cloud storage (IOPS caps, burst credits, throttling) and the high costs of premium tiers like AWS io2. Bare metal, while fast, lacks elasticity and introduces downtime, corruption risk, and resync pain. Nirvana positions itself as a middle ground: consistent high performance with predictable pricing, no burst credits, and no throttling.
From February to August 2026, Nirvana shipped several updates. In February, it published a breakdown comparing bare metal vs. its ABS approach. In March, it launched a pricing calculator for transparent cost comparison and released benchmark results showing ABS delivered ~10-14x faster cold-read performance than AWS gp3 on analytical queries, while performing close to io2 on high-IOPS workloads. It also introduced enterprise controls (Organizations, Projects, Member Management, Audit Logs, SAML SSO). In June, it published the LangChain Agent Infrastructure Benchmark, running 100K tasks with 1,000 concurrent agents, showing 14-17% faster task completion and 19% more throughput than AWS io2, plus 7.8x faster raw disk performance. In July, it launched Agent Sandboxes, a BYOC option on Altinity.Cloud, and self-serve billing.
One limitation to note: the SLA provides service credits only for uptime between 99.00% and 99.9% (10% credit) and below 99.00% (20% credit), capped at 90 days of paid service per quarter, claimable within 30 days. Standard support responses may take up to 24 business hours, which may not suit teams requiring immediate assistance.
Nirvana Labs has made significant strides in H1 2026. Key launches include the Nirvana Kubernetes Service (NKS), which offers managed clusters with built-in load balancing and ABS storage. The company also introduced Agent Sandboxes, priced 20% below leading managed providers, for persistent AI agent development. Performance-wise, ABS (Accelerated Block Storage) demonstrated 10-14x faster cold-read performance than AWS gp3 and comparable behavior to io2 at a fraction of the cost, with 20K sustained IOPS per VM. The company published a comprehensive LangChain Agent Infrastructure Benchmark (100K tasks, 1,000 concurrent agents), showing 14-17% faster task completion and 19% more throughput than AWS io2. Enterprise controls (Organizations, SAML SSO, Audit Logs) and self-serve billing were also rolled out.
Looking ahead, Nirvana Labs plans to expand NKS capabilities, deepen focus on real-time and data-heavy workloads (Web3, AI, analytics), and continue making high performance the default—not a premium add-on. The roadmap emphasizes further product upgrades, new use cases, and maintaining the mission of no throttling or burst credits.
Devin Bandara: Co-founder & CTO. Previously founded Aegis Studio. Education: Indiana University Bloomington.
Dan Burke: CEO. Previously Head of APAC at Qredo and MD, Institutional Sales at BitGo. Based in Singapore.
Jeff Wehner: COO. Education: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Vin Patel: Chief Backend Engineer. Education: DePaul University.
Liang Huang: Engineering Director. Education: Wuhan University of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Mississippi.
April Wong: Chief Marketing Officer. Previously CMO at Sushi and VP Marketing at Crypto.com. Education: Hong Kong Baptist University.