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Baseten

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Score: 50% (3/6) Startup
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Product category Implied
The page never uses a category label like "cloud platform" or "MLOps platform." It repeatedly uses phrases like "The platform for high-performance inference," "Baseten Inference Stack," and "Dedicated inference for high-scale workloads." A reader must infer this is an AI model inference/hosting cloud infrastructure platform from repeated references to "inference," "GPUs," "deploy models," "infra," etc.
Target customer Implied
No explicit statement like "for developers" or "for enterprises" as a defined audience sentence. It can be inferred from context: "Deploy, optimize, and manage your models," customer logos (Cursor, Notion, HubSpot, Harvey, etc.), and mentions of "Enterprise" and "Healthcare" under Industries, and quotes from CTOs/engineers, suggesting the customer is companies/engineering teams building AI products who need model inference infrastructure.
Primary problem Implied
No sentence directly states "the problem is X." It's implied through statements like "The fastest inference takes more than GPUs" and "it's difficult to get reliable, performant, and scalable inference" (from a customer quote), suggesting the problem is that running fast, reliable, scalable AI model inference is hard.
Core product Explicit
"Serve open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models on infra purpose-built for high-performance inference at massive scale." and "Deploy an inference API powered by Baseten to monetize your model faster." These describe concretely that the product lets users deploy/serve AI models via inference infrastructure.
Differentiation Explicit
"Baseten Embeddings Inference (BEI) has over 2x higher throughput and 10% lower latency than any other solution on the market." and "Baseten Chains enables granular hardware and autoscaling for compound AI, powering 6x better GPU usage and cutting latency in half." These are concrete, specific performance claims distinguishing the product.
Evidence (social proof) Explicit
"With Baseten Embeddings Inference, we immediately saw 3x speed improvements... 160 millisecond latency is crazy." — Jagath Jai Kumar, Full Stack Engineer, OpenEvidence; also "99.99% uptime out of the box."

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Announcing our Series F. Learn more * Products * Solutions * Resources * Research * Customers * Pricing * Models * Docs Log inGet started # Inference is everything The fastest model runtimes, cross-cloud high availability, and seamless developer workflows. Powered by the Baseten Inference Stack. Get startedTalk to an engineer Abridge website Clay website Cursor website Decagon website descript website EliseAI case study Gamma case study Harvey website Hubspot website Lovable website Notion website OpenEvidence case study Parallel case study Poolside case study World Labs case study Products ## The platform for high-performance inference ## Dedicated inference for high-scale workloads Serve open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models on infra purpose-built for high-performance inference at massive scale. Start deployingLearn more Pre-optimized Model APIs Test new workloads, prototype products, or evaluate the latest AI models optimized to be the fastest in production — instantly. Learn more * Kimi K2.6 Try It * DeepSeek V4 Try It * GLM 5.1 Try It * Explore the model Library Explore Run Training on Baseten Train your models and easily deploy them in one click on inference-optimized infrastructure for the best possible performance. Learn more Frontier Gateway Deploy an inference API powered by Baseten to monetize your model faster. Learn more # The fastest inference takes more than GPUs. Baseten delivers the infrastructure, tooling, and expertise needed to bring the most performant AI products to market—fast. Bleeding-edge performance research Run cutting-edge performance research with custom kernels, the latest decoding techniques, and advanced caching baked into the Baseten Inference Stack. Learn More Inference-optimized infrastructure Scale workloads across any region and any cloud (in our cloud or yours), with blazing-fast cold starts and 99.99% uptime out of the box. Learn More DevEx built for rapid iteration Deploy, optimize, and manage your models and compound AI with a delightful developer experience built into Baseten's inference platform. Learn More Forward Deployed Engineers Partner with our forward deployed engineers to build, optimize, and scale your models with hands-on support from prototype to production. Learn More ## Scale fast — in our cloud or yours. Learn more Rapidly scale workloads across any cloud provider with global capacity. We offer single-tenant and self-hosted deployments for extra security. Baseten Cloud Get the fastest time to market with fully-managed, global deployment options and massive horizontal scale. Use single-tenant clusters for additional workload isolation. Learn more Self-hosted Get the low latency, high throughput, and dev experience you expect from a managed service, right in your own VPCs. Optionally, go hybrid with on-demand flex capacity on Baseten Cloud. Learn more ## Engineered for the most demanding Gen AI apps Custom performance optimizations tailored for Gen AI applications are baked into the Baseten Inference Stack. ### Rapid image generation Serve custom models or ComfyUI workflows, fine-tune for your use case, and quickly generate high-quality images on our inference platform. ### Optimized transcription We power the fastest, most accurate, and most cost-efficient transcription and speaker diarization on the market. ### SOTA text-to-speech We built real-time audio streaming to power AI phone calls, voice agents, translation, and more with the lowest time to first byte (TTFB). ### Performant LLM runtimes Get the highest throughput and lowest latency in production with models like Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, and gpt-oss. ### The fastest embeddings Baseten Embeddings Inference (BEI) has over 2x higher throughput and 10% lower latency than any other solution on the market. ### Ultra-low-latency compound AI Baseten Chains enables granular hardware and autoscaling for compound AI, powering 6x better GPU usage and cutting latency in half. Dedicated inference for custom models Deploy any custom or proprietary model and get out-of-the-box model performance optimizations and massive horizontal scale with the Baseten Inference Stack. docs ## What our customers are saying See all > I want the best possible experience for our users, but also for our company. Baseten has hands down provided both. We really appreciate the level of commitment and support from your entire team. > > Nathan Sobo > Co-Founder, Zed Industries > With Baseten, we gained a lot of control over our entire inference pipeline and worked with Baseten's team to optimize each step. > > Sahaj Garg > Co-Founder and CTO, Wispr > With Baseten Embeddings Inference, we immediately saw 3x speed improvements. Doctors rely on speed when treating patients, and that improvement has been critical to our product experience. 160 millisecond latency is crazy. > > Jagath Jai Kumar > Full Stack Engineer, OpenEvidence > With the launch of Brain MAX we've discovered how addictive speech-to-text is - we use it every day and want it everywhere. But it's difficult to get reliable, performant, and scalable inference. Baseten helped us unlock sub-300ms transcription with no unpredictable latency spikes. It's been a game-changer for us and our users. > > Mahendan Karunakaran > Head of Mobile Engineering, Clickup > Inference for custom-built LLMs could be a major headache. Thanks to Baseten, we're getting cost-effective high-performance model serving without any extra burden on our internal engineering teams. Instead, we get to focus our expertise on creating the best possible domain-specific LLMs for our customers. > > Waseem Alshikh > CTO and Co-Founder, Writer ## Explore Baseten today Start deployingTalk to an engineer Product * Dedicated Inference * Model APIs * Training * Frontier Gateway Baseten Inference Platform * Model Runtimes * Infrastructure * Multi-cloud Deployment options * Cloud * Self-hosted * Hybrid Embedded engineering * Forward deployed engineers Modalities * Transcription * Image Generation * Text-to-speech * Large language models * Compound AI * Embeddings Industries * Enterprise * Healthcare Developer * Model library * Documentation * Changelog Resources * Research * Customers * Blog * Guides * Events * Partners * Savings calculator * Trust Center * About us * Startups * Careers * Contact us Popular models * GLM 5.2 * Kimi K2.7 Code * DeepSeek V4 * Whisper Large V3 * NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra * Inkling * Explore all Legal * Terms and Conditions * Privacy Policy * Service Level Agreement all systems normal © 2026 Baseten

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