vioscaleAI
Comparison

Baseten vs LangChain

No clear leader: LangChain (79.0) and Baseten (77.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Baseten77
LangChain79
Score
vioscaleAI score
Baseten77 / 100medium · 72%
LangChain79 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Model
Basetenfreemium
LangChainfreemium
Price level
Basetenlow
LangChainmid
Starting price
Baseten–
LangChain$39
Transparent
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Integrations
Count
Baseten6
LangChain1,000
Security
Certifications
BasetenSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
LangChain–
Disclosure policy
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Gdpr
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Hipaa
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Iso27001
Baseten–
LangChain✓
Pci
Baseten✓
LangChain–
Scorecard
Baseten–
LangChain5.8
Soc2
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Baseten99.99
LangChain99.5
Status page
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Baseten–
LangChain18,663
Github stars
Baseten–
LangChain147,461
Package downloads weekly
Baseten–
LangChain3,725,877
Activity
Commits last 30d
Baseten–
LangChain100
Release
History
Baseten–
LangChain20 items
License
Spdx
Baseten–
LangChainMIT
Language
Primary
Baseten–
LangChainPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Baseten7 items
LangChain8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

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

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Baseten

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.

Independently observed

LangChain

A unified developer platform consisting of open-source frameworks and commercial tools for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying AI agents and LLM-powered applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Baseten

Usage-basedFree tier

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.

  • BasicFree
    • Dedicated deployments
    • Model APIs
    • Training
    • Fast cold starts
    • SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
    • +1 more
  • ProContact sales
    • Priority access to high-demand GPUs
    • Dedicated compute
    • Higher Model API rate limits
    • Hands-on engineering expertise
    • Dedicated support on Slack and Zoom
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom SLAs
    • Self-host deployments
    • On-demand flex compute
    • Use existing cloud commitments
    • Full control over data residency
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

LangChain

from $39/seat/moHybridFree tier

Free Developer plan. Plus plan from $39/user/mo with unlimited seats. Enterprise custom pricing billed annually.

  • DeveloperFree
    • 1 free seat
    • 5000 base traces per month
    • Full LangSmith access
  • Plus$39/seat/month, unlimited seats, 10k traces/month included
    • Unlimited seats
    • 10000 base traces per month
    • 1 free small serverless deployment
    • Team collaboration
    • LangSmith Deployment service access
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Advanced administration options
    • Enhanced security controls
    • Priority support
    • Custom deployment options
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
CLI
Baseten✓
LangChain✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
Self-hosted
Baseten✓
LangChain✓
On-premise
Baseten✓
LangChain✗
Hybrid
Baseten✓
LangChain✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Baseten

9 total
  • Plotly
  • OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  • Truss
  • SageMaker
  • ComfyUI
  • Exa
  • Keenable
  • Parallel
  • You.com
Independently observed

LangChain

11 total
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Cohere
  • Google
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure AI Search
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • OpaquePrompts
  • AWS
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Baseten or LangChain: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.