---
title: "Api Submit Instance"
method: POST
path: "/instance"
tags: ["Instances"]
---

# Api Submit Instance

`POST /instance`

Submit a job to the queue. Tier overrides priority.

Multi-GPU: Set num_gpus > 1 for multi-GPU jobs.
NFS: Optionally specify nfs_server + nfs_path for shared storage.

## Request body

- JobIn
  - `name` string, required
  - `vram_needed_gb` number, required
  - `priority` integer
  - `tier` string, nullable
  - `num_gpus` integer
  - `nfs_server` string, nullable
  - `nfs_path` string, nullable
  - `nfs_mount_point` string, nullable
  - `image` string, nullable
  - `interactive` boolean
  - `command` string, nullable
  - `ssh_port` integer

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-04-01** `526c3dd3d9d7` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/aabiro/apis/xcelsior/changes/instance/post.md)

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