Dedicated Inference
Provider 
Founded 2019
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software, Usage-based
Ownership Equity, Venture Capital

Baseten Dedicated Inference is a high-performance inference platform for deploying, serving, and scaling custom and open-source AI models in production.
Baseten Dedicated Inference runs mission-critical inference at massive scale using the Baseten Inference Stack. It offers dedicated, single-tenant deployments with cross-cloud autoscaling, four-nines uptime, runtime and kernel optimizations, and hands-on engineering support.
Customers can deploy on Baseten Cloud, self-host in their own VPCs, or use a hybrid configuration. The product supports open-source, custom, and fine-tuned models across text generation, image generation, transcription, embeddings, and compound AI systems.
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| Attribute | Dedicated Inference | Inference Neocloud | Modal Cloud | Model Library, Serverless | OpenRouter — Unified LLM API Gateway | Replicate Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | |||||||
| Founded | 2019 | 2025 | 2021 | 2016 | 2023 | 2019 | |
| Sells To | Enterprise | Developer | Enterprise | Developer | Developer | Enterprise, Small Business | |
| Pricing Model | Recurring, Software, Usage-based | Recurring Usage-Based | Recurring, Software | Recurring Usage-Based | Usage-based | Recurring, Software, Usage-based | |
| Ownership | Equity, Venture Capital | — | Venture Capital | Privately Held | Venture-backed private company | Venture Capital |
Provider 
Founded 2019
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software, Usage-based
Ownership Equity, Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2025
Sells To Developer
Pricing Model Recurring Usage-Based
Ownership —
Provider 
Founded 2021
Sells To Enterprise
Pricing Model Recurring, Software
Ownership Venture Capital
Provider 
Founded 2016
Sells To Developer
Pricing Model Recurring Usage-Based
Ownership Privately Held
Provider 
Founded 2023
Sells To Developer
Pricing Model Usage-based
Ownership Venture-backed private company