Cerebras
by Cerebras Systems
At a glance
AI compute company whose inference cloud serves open language models on wafer-scale hardware.
inference hardware infrastructure
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024-08
Overview
Cerebras is an AI compute company whose inference cloud serves open language models on its wafer-scale hardware, delivering very high token throughput. It offers an API for fast inference of models like Llama alongside its systems for training. Inference is usage-priced, with free access tiers.
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Key features
- Wafer-scale hardware for high-throughput inference
- Very fast token generation for open models
- OpenAI-compatible inference API
- Systems and cloud for large-scale training
Use cases
- Latency-sensitive applications needing fast tokens
- Serving open models at high speed
- Large-model training on specialized hardware
Pricing
Inference is usage-priced per token and starts with a free trial; training systems and on-premises deployments are sold separately.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-09
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- US
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/cerebras/
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
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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: “a regularly updated lineup of models on our public endpoint with your API key. Dedicated On-Prem What customers are saying Lovable was built on the idea that the person c”
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
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Suggest a correction - Billing
- Subscription Free allowance: Limited Subscription required: No
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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 www.cerebras.ai ↗
- 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 www.cerebras.ai ↗
Applies to: As stated on cerebras.ai on 2026-10-09
Matched on the vendor page: “a regularly updated lineup of models on our public endpoint with your API key. Dedicated On-Prem What customers are saying Lovable was built on the idea that the person c”
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Frequently asked questions
What is Cerebras known for?
Cerebras is known for wafer-scale AI hardware and very high-speed inference of open language models.
Does Cerebras offer an API?
Yes. Cerebras offers an inference cloud with an OpenAI-compatible API for open models.
Who develops Cerebras?
Cerebras Systems is a US-based AI compute company.
What does Cerebras not record?
Although the homepage was fetched, no page could be confirmed as its documentation or pricing page, so its licence terms, service regions and supported languages stay unconfirmed.
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