Baseten
Cloud platform for deploying, managing, and scaling AI applications and ML models.
Our take: Baseten handles the serving side of machine learning: packaging (with its open-source Truss standard), GPU deployments, autoscaling and Model APIs for popular open models.
Baseten is a cloud inference platform for developers and ML teams: you deploy custom, fine-tuned or open-source models on dedicated GPUs, or call its ready-made Model APIs. The Basic plan is $0 a month and pay as you go, with compute billed by the minute (for example $0.10833 a minute for an H100) and Model APIs billed per million tokens. New accounts get free credits.
A solid production inference platform for serving ML models; pay-as-you-go with no platform fee, with cost driven by GPU compute.
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Our takeBaseten handles the serving side of machine learning: packaging (with its open-source Truss standard), GPU deployments, autoscaling and Model APIs for popular open models.
Best / not good for
- ML teams deploying custom or open-source models to production
- Apps needing autoscaling GPU inference without managing infra
- Teams wanting drop-in open-model APIs as cheaper closed-model replacements
- Hobbyists wanting a permanently free tier (it is pay-per-use)
- Budgets sensitive to GPU and cold-start minutes adding up
- Non-developers - it is ML infrastructure
Friction report
Trade-offs to know before signing up.
- Time to valueFast for ML developers: push a model with Truss or call a prebuilt Model API; autoscaling is handled for you.
- Scale breakpointPer-minute GPU billing covers deploying and scaling time as well as predictions, so large models and spiky traffic raise costs; scaling settings matter.
- Walled gardenModerate: it is a managed platform, but Truss is open source and Enterprise can run deployments in your own VPC or as a hybrid.
Baseten plans
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0/month, pay as you go | Dedicated deployments, Model APIs, training, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance, email and in-app chat support |
| Pro | Quote (volume discounts) | Priority access to high-demand GPUs, dedicated compute, higher Model API rate limits, Slack and Zoom support |
| Enterprise | Quote (volume discounts) | Custom SLAs, self-hosted deployments in your VPC or hybrid, data residency control, RBAC with Teams |
From Baseten's pricing page, checked 3 October 2026.
Baseten GPU and CPU prices (per minute)
| Instance | Memory | Price per minute |
|---|---|---|
| T4 | 16 GiB | $0.01052 |
| L4 | 24 GiB | $0.01414 |
| A10G | 24 GiB | $0.02012 |
| A100 | 80 GiB | $0.06667 |
| H100 MIG | 40 GiB | $0.0625 |
| H100 | 80 GiB | $0.10833 |
| B200 | 180 GiB | $0.16633 |
| CPU 1 vCPU | 2 GiB RAM | $0.00058 |
Dedicated deployment and training rates from Baseten's pricing page, checked 3 October 2026. Model API prices vary by model and are listed per million tokens.
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