Baseten
by Baseten
At a glance
Platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models as scalable APIs.
model-deployment inference infrastructure
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Paid
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2019
Overview
Baseten is a platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models as scalable APIs, with a focus on production inference. It uses the open-source Truss tool for packaging models and offers autoscaling, monitoring, and dedicated deployments. Pricing is usage-based by compute.
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Key features
- Production model serving with autoscaling and fast cold starts
- Truss open-source model packaging
- Dedicated deployments, model APIs, and training on one platform
- Per-minute GPU billing with no charge for idle time
Use cases
- Serving custom and open models in production
- Low-latency inference APIs
- Scaling ML services reliably
Pricing
Dedicated GPU compute is billed per minute with no charge for idle time, model APIs are billed per million tokens, and new accounts come with credits.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-09
- Documentation
- docs.baseten.co ↗
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/baseten/
Selection profile
Every field says where its value comes from. "Unknown" means we have not confirmed it — it does not mean the product lacks the feature.
Selection profile11 fields3 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
Derived from the record: category "platforms".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Web
Derived from platform words in the record description/features/tags.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
The record contains no offline-operation claim.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
Matched on the vendor page: “r model inference and training. You can call hosted models through an OpenAI-compatible API, deploy your own models on dedicated infrastructure, or train models and serve”
Suggest a correction - Licence
- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
No vendor page read in this pass states the product's own interface languages; the key exists so the field can be answered later rather than left absent.
Suggest a correction - Billing
- Subscription Free allowance: No Subscription required: Yes
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Verified 2026-10-09 docs.baseten.co ↗
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Key facts and their evidence
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API: Public API documented Verified 2026-10-09 docs.baseten.co ↗
Applies to: As stated on docs.baseten.co on 2026-10-09
Matched on the vendor page: “r model inference and training. You can call hosted models through an OpenAI-compatible API, deploy your own models on dedicated infrastructure, or train models and serve”
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Frequently asked questions
What does Baseten do?
Baseten deploys and serves machine-learning models as scalable, production-grade APIs.
What is Truss?
Truss is Baseten's open-source tool for packaging machine-learning models for deployment.
How is Baseten priced?
Baseten is usage-priced by compute time, with free starter credits.
What does Baseten not record?
Baseten was added after its batch's fetch round, so no pricing page was reviewed, and its price figures, licence terms, regional availability and language coverage are not established here.
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