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Baseten

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The fastest AI model inference platform for production-grade deployments

Paid·Technical·API available

Key strengths

High-performance inference with low latency and high throughputCross-cloud and self-hosted deployment optionsFast cold starts and 99.99% uptimeSupport for custom, fine-tuned, and open-source modelsSpecialized optimizations for LLMs, image generation, transcription, TTS, and embeddings
Paid only
San Francisco, USA
Founded 2019
Self-hostable

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Recent changes

  • Free tier: now available
  • Plans updated: Basic plan is $0/month pay-as-you-go; Pro plan requires a quote with volume discounts; Enterprise plan requires a quote. Compute billed per minute (e.g. H100 80 GiB at $0.10833/min). Model APIs priced per 1M tokens.
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Baseten provides a REST API for model inference, enabling programmatic access to deployed models with per-token billing for model APIs and per-minute billing for compute resources. The platform supports self-hosting and cross-cloud deployments, giving engineering teams control over infrastructure placement. Specialized inference optimizations are available for LLMs, image generation, transcription, text-to-speech (TTS), and embeddings. Baseten is open-source (1,220 GitHub stars) and integrates with observability tooling via Datadog, edge deployment via Vercel, and creative/productivity workflows via Canva, Cursor, Notion, and ComfyUI. Pricing tiers: Basic ($0/month, pay-as-you-go), Pro (volume discounts, quote required), and Enterprise (quote required).

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