What is Baseten?
An inference platform for deploying open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models in production with high-performance infrastructure, cross-cloud availability, and seamless developer workflows.
Baseten pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Pay-as-you-go from $0/month. Free credits for new accounts. Model API pricing from $0.10–$3.00 per 1M input tokens depending on model; compute instances from $0.00058–$0.16633 per minute.
Basic
FreeDeploy custom, fine-tuned, and open-source models with dedicated deployments, Model APIs, training, and SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance.
- Dedicated deployments
- Model APIs
- Training
- Fast cold starts
- SOC 2 Type II certified
- HIPAA compliant
- Email and in-app chat support
Pro
Contact salesEverything in Basic plus priority GPU access, dedicated compute, higher Model API rate limits, engineering expertise, and dedicated support.
- Everything in Basic
- Priority access to high-demand GPUs
- Dedicated compute
- Higher Model API rate limits
- Hands-on engineering expertise
- Dedicated Slack and Zoom support
Enterprise
Contact salesEverything in Pro plus custom SLAs, self-hosted deployments, on-demand flex compute, data residency control, advanced security, and custom global regions.
- Everything in Pro
- Custom SLAs
- Self-hosted deployments
- On-demand flex compute
- Use existing cloud commitments
- Full data residency control
- Advanced security and compliance
- Custom global regions
- Advanced RBAC with Teams
What Baseten does
The capabilities that matter for mlops & llmops tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool role
- Model serving
- Self-hostable / OSS core
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✓
- On-prem / VPC deployment
- ✓
- LLM tracing / observability
- -
- Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
- -
- Prompt management + versioning
- -
- Experiment tracking / model registry
- -
- Model serving / inference endpoint
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
- -
- Framework-agnostic
- ✓
- Multi-provider model support
- ✓
- No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Baseten alternatives
Other mlops & llmops tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- OllamaThe easiest way to build with open modelslow · 22%
- OllamaThe easiest way to build with open modelslow · 45%
- PortkeyProduction Stack for Gen AI Builderslow · 46%
- MLflowOpen Source AI Platform for Agents, LLMs & Modelslow · 47%
- Weights & BiasesThe AI developer platformlow · 25%
- LangChainObserve, Evaluate, and Deploy Reliable AI Agentsmedium · 55%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Baseten, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 32.00 | 2596.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 16.00 | 1280.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 12.00 | 1194.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 75 | 12.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 10.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"role":"serving","managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"framework_agnostic":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |