Baseten vs Cerebras

Side-by-side comparison of Baseten and Cerebras: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Baseten The fastest AI model inference platform for production-grade deployments Visit	Cerebras Fast AI inference on wafer-scale chips Visit
Category	AI infrastructure	AI infrastructure
Pricing	Paid	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	Technical	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		Cerebras (own hardware/inference); supports models including Qwen, GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K2.6, Codex-Spark, Meta Scout, and others
Founded	2019	2015
Headquarters	San Francisco, USA	Sunnyvale, USA
Key strengths	·High-performance inference with low latency and high throughput ·Cross-cloud and self-hosted deployment options ·Fast cold starts and 99.99% uptime ·Support for custom, fine-tuned, and open-source models	·Ultra-fast inference (up to 30x faster than GPUs) ·Wafer-Scale Engine hardware ·OpenAI API compatibility ·On-premise and cloud deployment