Baseten

Baseten is an inference platform designed for serving open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models at scale. It provides the fastest model runtimes, cross-cloud high availability, and seamless developer workflows. The platform includes dedicated deployments for high-scale workloads, pre-optimized model APIs for rapid prototyping, and training capabilities that allow deploying models on inference-optimized infrastructure in one click. Baseten also offers the Frontier Gateway to monetize models via an inference API.

Key Features

• Bleeding-edge performance research: Custom kernels, latest decoding techniques, and advanced caching baked into the Baseten Inference Stack.
• Inference-optimized infrastructure: Scale workloads across any region and any cloud with blazing-fast cold starts and 99.99% uptime.
• Developer experience (DevEx): Deploy, optimize, and manage models and compound AI with a built-in platform.
• Forward Deployed Engineers: Hands-on support from prototype to production.

Use Cases

• Rapid image generation with custom models or ComfyUI workflows.
• Optimized transcription and speaker diarization.
• State-of-the-art text-to-speech with real-time audio streaming.
• Performant LLM runtimes for models like Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, and gpt-oss.
• Fastest embeddings with Baseten Embeddings Inference (BEI), offering over 2x higher throughput.

Deployment Options

• Baseten Cloud: Fully-managed, global deployment with massive horizontal scale and single-tenant clusters.
• Self-hosted: Low latency, high throughput, and developer experience in the user's own VPCs.
• Hybrid: On-demand flex capacity on Baseten Cloud.

Baseten serves a range of customers from startups to enterprises, including Abridge, Clay, Cursor, Decagon, Descript, EliseAI, Gamma, Heygen, Lovable, Notion, OpenEvidence, Poolside, Sourcegraph, World Labs, and Writer.

Key Benefits

• Fastest model runtimes with custom performance optimizations
• Cross-cloud high availability with 99.99% uptime
• Seamless developer workflows for rapid iteration
• Forward Deployed Engineers for hands-on support