# Baseten vs Braintrust

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Baseten

| Attribute | Baseten | Braintrust |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 77.3 (72% (medium)) | 54.8 (31% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An infrastructure platform that handles serving, optimizing, and scaling machine learning models across multiple clouds. Offers both managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options with built-in performance tuning, autoscaling, and 99.99% uptime reliability. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"What is Baseten?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Baseten does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Basic, Pro and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"How much does Baseten cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Baseten supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Baseten support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Baseten can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"Can Baseten be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 4 integrations for Baseten, including Plotly, OpenAI-compatible endpoint, Truss and SageMaker. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"What does Baseten integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Baseten. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Baseten not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/resources/changelog/compliance-policy-visibility/","question":"What security certifications does Baseten have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Baseten is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","question":"Where is Baseten available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Enables teams to observe AI agent behavior in production, automatically identify improvement opportunities, and iteratively enhance agent quality through experimentation and LLM-based evaluation. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://braintrust.dev","question":"What is Braintrust?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Braintrust. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://braintrust.dev","question":"What platforms does Braintrust support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Braintrust can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://braintrust.dev","question":"Can Braintrust be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for Braintrust, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://braintrust.dev","question":"What does Braintrust integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Braintrust. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Braintrust not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://braintrust.dev","question":"What security certifications does Braintrust have?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | An infrastructure platform that handles serving, optimizing, and scaling machine learning models across multiple clouds. Offers both managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options with built-in performance tuning, autoscaling, and 99.99% uptime reliability. | Braintrust provides real-time observability for AI agents in production. It enables teams to inspect traces and tool calls, automatically discover patterns and issues, run experiments to evaluate quality, and continuously iterate on agent performance. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"serving","evaluation":false,"soc2_type_ii":true,"compute_model":"dedicated_gpu_instance","managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"per_million_tokens","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":false,"llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":false,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"openai_compatible_rest_api_schema":true,"bring_your_own_weights_byow_hosting":true,"dynamic_batching_and_kv_cache_management":true,"massive_context_window_support_100k_plus":true,"hipaa_baa_compliance_for_medical_inference":true,"multimodal_vision_and_audio_in_out_support":true,"native_function_calling_and_strict_json_mode":true}` | `{"role":"observability","evaluation":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":false,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_saas","framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"production_ab_testing_of_system_prompts":true,"token_cost_and_latency_waterfall_charts":true,"prompt_playground_and_in_dashboard_replay":true,"multi_step_agentic_workflow_distributed_tracing":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Plotly"},{"name":"OpenAI-compatible endpoint"},{"name":"Truss"},{"name":"SageMaker","native":true,"category":"model_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"ComfyUI","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Exa","native":true,"category":"search","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Keenable","native":true,"category":"search","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Parallel","native":true,"category":"search","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"You.com","native":true,"category":"search","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free tier, pay as you go","features":["Dedicated deployments","Model APIs","Training","Fast cold starts","SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant","Email and in-app chat support"],"description":"Pay-as-you-go model deployment and inference","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","features":["Priority access to high-demand GPUs","Dedicated compute","Higher Model API rate limits","Hands-on engineering expertise","Dedicated support on Slack and Zoom","Volume discounts available"],"description":"Priority compute access with dedicated support","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Custom SLAs","Self-host deployments","On-demand flex compute","Use existing cloud commitments","Full control over data residency","Advanced security and compliance","Custom global regions","Advanced RBAC with Teams","Your VPC"],"description":"Full control with self-hosted and custom SLA options","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Pay-as-you-go model inference starting free. Model API pricing from $0.10–$4.40 per 1M tokens. GPU instances from $0.00058–$0.16633 per hour.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.baseten.co/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-06T16:25:08.127Z"}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | - |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.baseten.co/resources/changelog/compliance-policy-visibility/ | - |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | Baseten | Braintrust |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | Model serving | LLM observability / eval |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hostable / OSS core | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed cloud available | ✓ | ✓ |
| On-prem / VPC deployment | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Observability** |  |  |
| LLM tracing / observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human) | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Dev** |  |  |
| Prompt management + versioning | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Tracking** |  |  |
| Experiment tracking / model registry | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Serving** |  |  |
| Model serving / inference endpoint | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible | ✗ | - |
| Framework-agnostic | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Gateway** |  |  |
| Multi-provider model support | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data** |  |  |
| No-train-on-customer-data guarantee | - | Unknown |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:51:32.979Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*