# runai inference

inference management

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for inference
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --config-file string   config file name; can be set by environment variable RUNAI_CLI_CONFIG_FILE (default "config.json")
      --config-path string   config path; can be set by environment variable RUNAI_CLI_CONFIG_PATH
  -d, --debug                enable debug mode
  -q, --quiet                enable quiet mode, suppress all output except error messages
      --verbose              enable verbose mode
```

## SEE ALSO

* [runai](/saas/reference/cli/runai.md) - Run:ai Command-line Interface
* [runai inference bash](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-bash.md) - open a bash shell in an inference workload
* [runai inference delete](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference_delete.md) - delete an inference workload
* [runai inference describe](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference_describe.md) - describe an inference workload
* [runai inference distributed](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-distributed.md) - Runs multiple coordinated inference processes across multiple nodes. Required for models too large to run on a single node.
* [runai inference exec](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-exec.md) - execute a command in an inference workload
* [runai inference list](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference_list.md) - list inference workloads
* [runai inference logs](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-logs.md) - view logs of an inference workload
* runai inference nim - \[Experimental] Runs NVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices) workloads. Optimized for deploying foundation models.
* [runai inference port-forward](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-port-forward.md) - forward one or more local ports to an inference workload
* [runai inference standard](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai-inference-standard.md) - Runs a single inference process on one node. Suitable for smaller models or simpler inference tasks.
* [runai inference submit](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference_submit.md) - submit an inference workload
* [runai inference update](/saas/reference/cli/runai/runai_inference_update.md) - update an inference workload


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