Baseten — Developer Tools

What is Baseten?

Baseten is a high-performance inference platform designed to deploy custom, fine-tuned, and open-source AI models in production. It solves the problem of slow, unreliable, and costly model serving by providing purpose-built infrastructure, bleeding-edge performance research, and seamless developer workflows. From startups to enterprises, teams use Baseten to bring AI products to market fast — without worrying about cold starts, scaling, or cloud lock-in.

Who is Baseten for?

Baseten is ideal for ML engineers, AI product teams, and enterprises that need to serve large-language models, computer vision models, or any AI model at scale. It is less suited for non-technical users looking for a no-code AI builder — Baseten requires you to bring or fine-tune your own models.

Real use cases

Companies like Abridge, Clay, Cursor, Descript, Gamma, Harvey, HubSpot, Lovable, Notion, and World Labs use Baseten for production inference. Use cases include powering AI copilots, generating content, running RAG pipelines, and serving multi-modal models — all with minimal latency and maximum throughput.

• Fast cold starts — Launch model deployments in seconds, even for large models, with optimized infrastructure.
• Global, cross-cloud scaling — Automatically scale workloads across any region and cloud provider (Baseten Cloud or your own VPC) with 99.99% uptime.
• Pre-optimized Model APIs — Access instantly deployable, fastest-in-production versions of open-source models like DeepSeek V4 and GLM 5.2.
• Advanced caching & decoding — Benefit from custom kernels and state-of-the-art decoding techniques to reduce cost and latency.
• DevEx for rapid iteration — Deploy, optimize, and manage models and compound AI systems with a developer-friendly experience.
• Hands-on engineering support — Partner with forward-deployed engineers to build, optimize, and scale from prototype to production.
• Self-hosting & hybrid options — Run in your own VPC or combine with on-demand flex capacity on Baseten Cloud for extra control.

Baseten pricing: Free plan available (pay-as-you-go from $0/month). Billing model: Freemium.

For comparison: the median starting price in Developer Tools is $19.99/month, measured across 301 tools we track. See the full SaaS Pricing Index →

Basic — $0/month (pay as you go)

Includes dedicated deployments, Model APIs, training, fast cold starts, SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA compliance, and email/in-app chat support. Deployment options: Baseten Cloud only.

Pro — Volume discounts available (get quote)

Everything in Basic plus: unlimited autoscaling, priority access to high-demand GPUs, dedicated compute, higher Model API rate limits, hands-on engineering expertise, and dedicated Slack/Zoom support. Deployment options: Baseten Cloud.

Enterprise — Volume discounts available (get quote)

Everything in Pro plus: custom SLAs, self-hosted deployments, on-demand flex compute, use existing cloud commitments, full data residency control, advanced security & compliance, custom global regions, and advanced RBAC with Teams. Deployment options: Baseten Cloud, Your VPC, or Hybrid.

Model APIs are priced per million tokens (e.g., GLM 5.2: $1.40 input, $0.26 cached input, $4.40 output). Dedicated deployments are priced per minute per GPU instance (e.g., H100 from $0.10833/min). A free trial is available — get started without upfront cost.

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