# Baseten vs ZenML

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Baseten

| Attribute | Baseten | ZenML |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 77.3 (72% (medium)) | 60.8 (52% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 41 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 44 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,615 |
| 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":"An MLOps framework that provides reproducible machine learning pipelines with automatic logging, versioning, and observability. Includes agent runtime capabilities (Kitaru) for building replayable agent workflows, deployable on your existing infrastructure without vendor lock-in. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://www.zenml.io/blog/crewai-pricing","question":"What is ZenML?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"ZenML is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Pro, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.zenml.io/blog/crewai-pricing","question":"Is ZenML free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"ZenML 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.zenml.io/blog/crewai-pricing","question":"What platforms does ZenML support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. ZenML can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.zenml.io/blog/crewai-pricing","question":"Can ZenML be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 4 integrations for ZenML, including Git, Kubernetes, Docker and Poetry. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.zenml.io/blog/crewai-pricing","question":"What does ZenML integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for ZenML. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as ZenML not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.zenml.io","question":"What security certifications does ZenML have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. ZenML is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml","question":"Is ZenML open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":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. | ZenML is a Python-based orchestration framework that manages machine learning pipelines and agents across any infrastructure, from local development to production Kubernetes clusters. It provides centralized artifact management, automated tracking and versioning, and enterprise-grade security compliance for reproducible AI systems. |
| 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":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 60 |
| 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":"Git"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Poetry"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"ClickUp","native":true,"category":"project management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"MLflow","native":true,"category":"experiment tracking","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Databricks","native":true,"category":"data platform","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Trackio","native":true,"category":"experiment tracking","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"LLM provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LangGraph","native":true,"category":"workflow framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"PyTorch","native":true,"category":"ML framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"scikit-learn","native":true,"category":"ML framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Hugging Face","native":true,"category":"model hub","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LlamaIndex","native":true,"category":"RAG framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"PyTorch Lightning","native":true,"category":"ML framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Axolotl","native":true,"category":"ML framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AzureML","native":true,"category":"ML service","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud","native":true,"category":"cloud provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"DigitalOcean","native":true,"category":"cloud provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubeflow","native":true,"category":"ML orchestration","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":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"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Community","summary":"Free, self-hosted","features":["experiment tracking","pipeline orchestration","artifact storage","model versioning"],"description":"Open-source self-hosted version with no license cost","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Managed service pricing not specified","features":["managed control plane","governance","SSO","SLA support","audit trails"],"description":"Managed cloud service with governance and SSO features","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free open-source version; managed Pro service available","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.zenml.io/blog/clearml-pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:07:20.688Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 15 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.97.0","date":"2026-09-23T13:30:23Z","type":"stable","version":"0.97.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.4","date":"2026-09-04T13:32:22Z","type":"stable","version":"0.96.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.3","date":"2026-08-07T13:24:25Z","type":"stable","version":"0.96.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.2","date":"2026-07-17T11:21:15Z","type":"stable","version":"0.96.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.1","date":"2026-07-02T20:38:13Z","type":"stable","version":"0.96.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.96.0","date":"2026-07-02T12:52:05Z","type":"stable","version":"0.96.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.95.1","date":"2026-06-18T12:24:26Z","type":"stable","version":"0.95.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.95.0","date":"2026-06-17T15:08:22Z","type":"stable","version":"0.95.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.6","date":"2026-06-02T10:57:18Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.5","date":"2026-05-29T10:10:53Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.4","date":"2026-05-12T15:13:19Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.3","date":"2026-04-24T13:55:54Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.2","date":"2026-04-08T15:00:24Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.1","date":"2026-03-19T17:11:55Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.94.0","date":"2026-03-04T18:22:00Z","type":"stable","version":"0.94.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.93.3","date":"2026-02-19T09:59:12Z","type":"stable","version":"0.93.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.93.2","date":"2026-01-29T22:30:18Z","type":"stable","version":"0.93.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.93.1","date":"2026-01-14T09:20:00Z","type":"stable","version":"0.93.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.93.0","date":"2025-12-16T09:19:32Z","type":"stable","version":"0.93.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/zenml-io/zenml/releases/tag/0.92.0","date":"2025-12-02T06:42:19Z","type":"stable","version":"0.92.0"}]` |
| 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"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 6.8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.baseten.co/resources/changelog/compliance-policy-visibility/ | https://www.zenml.io/blog/navigating-ofgem-compliance-for-ml-systems-in-energy-a-practical-guide |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":14,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=zenml&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | Baseten | ZenML |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | Model serving | End-to-end ML platform |
| **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 | - | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T06:17:07.499Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*