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title: "Hosted proving services"
description: "Hosted proving services: Operations — managed proving. Services that run prover hardware on your behalf behind an API, typically bundled with an SDK, CI…"
type: "option"
url: "https://zkpick.com/frameworks/hosted-proving/"
section: "02 Choosing a framework"
authors:
  - "MarketComp"
publisher: "MarketComp"
version: "1.3"
updated: "2026-09-12"
license: "CC-BY-4.0"
json: "https://zkpick.com/data/frameworks/hosted-proving.json"
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*By MarketComp. Updated 2026-09-12. Version 1.3. CC BY 4.0.*

# Hosted proving services — *Operations — managed proving*

> Hosted proving services: Operations — managed proving. Services that run prover hardware on your behalf behind an API, typically bundled with an SDK, CI integration and autoscaling. Maturity: Commercially available; vendor maturity varies. Maintained by: Several vendors: Axiom (proving API), RISC Zero (remote proving and Boundless), Succinct (prover network), among others — none is endorsed here. Choose it when: Pre-product-market-fit teams, bursty or low-volume workloads, and proving over public inputs. A poor fit for privacy-critical witnesses or systems requiring censorship resistance.

Services that run prover hardware on your behalf behind an API, typically bundled with an SDK, CI integration and autoscaling. Some are multi-zkVM, reducing lock-in at the operational layer.

**Strengths**

- Removes GPU capital expenditure and cluster operations entirely — the fastest path from a working guest program to proofs in production
- Lets you defer the buy-versus-build hardware decision until proof volume is known

**Tradeoffs**

- Introduces a liveness and censorship dependency on a single company: a proof you cannot generate is a system you cannot advance
- Cost per proof at steady volume is usually materially higher than self-hosting
- Sending witnesses to a third party can leak private inputs — for privacy applications this can defeat the entire purpose unless client-side witness generation is supported

**Choose it when:** Pre-product-market-fit teams, bursty or low-volume workloads, and proving over public inputs. A poor fit for privacy-critical witnesses or systems requiring censorship resistance.

Maintained by: Several vendors: Axiom (proving API), RISC Zero (remote proving and Boundless), Succinct (prover network), among others — none is endorsed here · Maturity: Commercially available; vendor maturity varies · License: Proprietary services over open-source zkVMs · Source: https://www.axiom.xyz/proving-api