About Baseten
Baseten is an inference platform for teams that run AI models in production. It provides the infrastructure, tooling and engineering support to serve open-source, custom and fine-tuned models at scale, with a focus on fast runtimes, reliability and developer workflows.
The product set includes dedicated inference for high-scale workloads, pre-optimized model APIs for testing new models, a model library, and a training option that uses a Loops SDK for reinforcement learning with deployment on the same stack. Cross-cloud high availability is a selling point, and the company describes performance work that includes custom kernels and advanced decoding techniques. Baseten for Model Labs lets model creators distribute and monetize models on its infrastructure.
Baseten is a proprietary commercial service with a pricing page, documentation and an option to talk to an engineer. It is aimed at AI product companies that want production inference without running their own GPU fleets.
Key features
- Dedicated inference for high-scale workloads
- Pre-optimized model APIs
- Model library of open-source models
- Training with the Loops SDK
- Cross-cloud high availability
- Distribution platform for model creators
Good fit for
- →Serving a fine-tuned model in production
- →Trying new open models through ready APIs
- →Scaling inference across clouds
- Tags
- ai-inference
- model-serving
- llm-api
- mlops
- fine-tuning
- gpu
- open-source-models
- ai-infrastructure
Baseten: questions and answers
- What is Baseten used for?
- Baseten is an inference platform for deploying and scaling open-source, custom and fine-tuned AI models in production, with optimized runtimes and ready-made model APIs. It is a good fit for serving a fine-tuned model in production, trying new open models through ready APIs and scaling inference across clouds.
- How much does Baseten cost?
- Baseten is a paid product with no free plan. A free trial is available. Basic has no monthly fee; you pay for usage, such as H100 compute at $0.10833 per minute or GPT OSS 120B at $0.10 per million input tokens. Pro and Enterprise are quoted, and new accounts get free credits.
- Is Baseten open source?
- No. Baseten is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Baseten include SGLang, vLLM and beta9.
- What are some alternatives to Baseten?
- Baseten competes with Modal, Replicate and Together AI. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Baseten alternatives.
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