Baseten
Strong custom-model serving alternative to Replicate/Modal when you bring your own model.
Strong custom-model serving alternative to Replicate/Modal when you bring your own model. Strengths: Production model serving focus; Good DX for custom models; Autoscaling inference.
Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.
Strong custom-model serving alternative to Replicate/Modal when you bring your own model.
Strengths
- · Production model serving focus
- · Good DX for custom models
- · Autoscaling inference
Weaknesses
- · Less model zoo than Replicate
- · Pricing vs Fireworks tradeoffs
- · Smaller community
Pricing notes
As of 2026-09-14 (baseten.co/pricing live): Model APIs + dedicated Truss deploys. Token examples: GLM-5.3-Flash $0.15/$0.50 per 1M (stored row). Per baseten.co/pricing as of 2026-10-21 (not stored as rows): GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.2 each input $1.40, cache input $0.14, output $4.40 per 1M; GLM-5.3 Fast and GLM-5.2 Fast each input $2.10, cache input $0.21, output $6.60 per 1M. GLM 4.7 is no longer listed on that page as of 2026-10-21, so its figure was removed. Dedicated GPU/VM rates published on page (e.g. 16 GiB VM ~$0.01052, L4 ~$0.01414, A10G ~$0.02012, A100/B200 class higher). Basic self-serve; Pro priority GPUs; Enterprise BYOC/self-host. SOC2 Type II + HIPAA. No idle charge when scaled to zero.
Sourced pricing
Contract status ambiguous · input_output_split_not_a_single_rate. Single normalized $/1M: null. Machine list: /api/pricing?provider=baseten
- GPT OSS 120B · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.1 · sourced_token_price
- GPT OSS 120B · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.5 · sourced_token_price
- GLM-5.3-Flash · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.15 · sourced_token_price
- GLM-5.3-Flash · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $0.5 · sourced_token_price
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $0.3 · sourced_token_price
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $1.2 · sourced_token_price
- Kimi K3 · usd_per_million_input_tokens · $3 · sourced_token_price
- Kimi K3 · usd_per_million_output_tokens · $15 · sourced_token_price
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