# Create an account

Create an account and add billing information to start using Crusoe Cloud. Use Google or Github for the quickest signup.

## 1. Sign up for Crusoe Cloud

Sign up for Crusoe Cloud based on whether you plan to manage your own infrastructure or run inference on Crusoe's managed infrastructure:

- **<TrackedLink href="https://console.crusoecloud.com/request-foundry" location="docs_signup_managed_ai">Create a Managed AI account →</TrackedLink>**  
  Run inference on Crusoe's managed infrastructure—with no GPU infrastructure to provision or operate yourself.
- **<TrackedLink href="https://console.crusoecloud.com/request" location="docs_signup_ai_cloud">Create an Infrastructure Cloud account →</TrackedLink>**  
  Get direct access to Crusoe GPU compute, storage, and networking, managed by you through VMs, Kubernetes (CMK), or Slurm.

:::note
You can switch between accounts in the console regardless of which account type you initially used for sign up.
:::

## 2. Verify your email address

If you signed up with Google or Github, your email address is already verified—skip to [Enable billing](#3-enable-billing).

If you signed up with your email address, Crusoe Cloud sends a six-digit verification code to that address:

1. Check your inbox for an email from Crusoe Cloud containing the code.
2. Enter the code on the verification screen in the [console](https://console.crusoecloud.com).

If you don't receive a code, check your spam folder before requesting a new one. If you still can't verify your email address, [contact support](/resources/support).

### Considerations

- You can't sign in until your email address is verified.
- Each code expires five minutes after it's sent. If yours expires, request a new one from the verification screen.
- After five incorrect entries, the code stops working. Request a new code and try again.

## 3. Enable billing

To provision resources or use the [managed inference service](/serverless-inference/overview), you must enable billing on your account. You will need a valid, non-prepaid credit card to proceed.

**UI:**

To enable billing via the [console](https://console.crusoecloud.com):

1. From the [console](https://console.crusoecloud.com), click **Admin** in the bottom-left corner.
2. Click **Billing** > **[Payments](https://console.crusoecloud.com/billing/payments)** in the left navigation.
3. Click **Add payment method**.
4. Enter your credit card information.
5. Click **Save**.

If you can't enable billing, please [contact support](/resources/support) with additional details.

## Projects and organizations

When you sign up for Crusoe Cloud, a default organization and project are created for you. Projects and organizations are used to organize your resources—such as models, datasets, and compute instances—and manage access to them.