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Cactus Compute

Infrastructure

On-device inference engine for running models on phones and embedded hardware, free below a funding and revenue threshold.

Total funding—

Valuation—

Employees8

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Cactus Infrastructure service Sold on its own

  Source-available inference engine for running models on phones, wearables, smart-home and robotics hardware, shipping its own quantization, kernels and runtime behind OpenAI-compatible text, speech and vision APIs.

• Cactus Platform Platform

  Hosted fine-tuning and evaluation service for Cactus models, running Cactus datasets, 2-bit quantisation, evaluation tracking and full-depth fine-tunes on Cactus Compute's own training infrastructure.

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BBasetenPrivate · $13BCactus and Baseten Inference Runtime both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHFHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BCactus and Inference Endpoints both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BCactus and Together Batch Inference both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLALiquid AIPrivateCactus Platform and LEAP do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredCactus Platform and W&B Models do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUnslothPrivateCactus Platform and Unsloth do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedCactus and Modal Inference both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BCactus Platform and Fireworks AI do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; ships API service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTolokaPrivateCactus Platform and Toloka Train do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateCactus Platform and Huawei HiLens do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateCactus Platform and Kubeflow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoePrivate · $10BCactus Platform and Serverless Fine-Tuning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BCactus Platform and Managed Service for MLflow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLabelboxPrivate · $189M raisedCactus Platform and Horizon do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunPodPrivateCactus and Runpod Hub both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BCactus Platform and Databricks Model Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAppenPublicCactus Platform and AI Data Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNeo4jPrivate · $2BCactus Platform and Neo4j Graph Data Science do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTuringPrivate · $2.2BCactus Platform and RL environments do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; ships agent platform and data service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCMComet MLPrivate · $70M raisedCactus Platform and Comet Artifacts do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTMThinking Machines LabPrivate · $12BCactus Platform and Tinker do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCSCerebras SystemsPublic · $44.4BCactus Platform and Cerebras Training Cloud do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateCactus Platform and ML expert Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedCactus and Lambda Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoreWeavePublic · $48.5BCactus and CoreWeave AI Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TCactus Platform and NVIDIA AI Enterprise do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BCactus Platform and Tencent Cloud TI Platform do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare44ParadigmPublic · $2BCactus Platform and 4Paradigm Sage AIOS do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIntelPublic · $463.7BCactus and Intel Neural Compressor both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAMDPublic · $785.1BCactus and AMD Ryzen AI Software both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BCactus Platform and ModelScope do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BCactus Platform and Mistral Forge do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEleutherAINonprofitCactus Platform and GPT-NeoX do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; EleutherAI is a nonprofit, with no independent scale; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHuaweiPrivateCactus Platform and MindSpore do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRReplicatePrivateCactus and Replicate both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BCactus Platform and PaddlePaddle do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASnorkel AIPrivate · $1.3BCactus Platform and Snorkel Flow do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVMwareAcquiredCactus and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TCactus Platform and Azure Machine Learning do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BCactus Platform and Vanchin do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSplunkAcquiredCactus Platform and Splunk AI Toolkit do comparable work on model training; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOraclePublic · $454.4BCactus Platform and OCI Data Science do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDataikuPrivate · $3.7BCactus Platform and Dataiku do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BCactus Platform and AI21 Post-Training do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; ships API service, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TCactus Platform and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedCactus and Ollama both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIMInsilico MedicinePublic · $4.3BCactus Platform and MMAI Gym do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSiemensPublic · $244.7BCactus Platform and Rapidminer AI Studio do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUniphorePrivate · $2.5BCactus and Uniphore Model Layer both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicCactus Platform and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHumainPrivateCactus and HUMAIN COMPUTE both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BCactus Platform and IBM watsonx.ai do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)Cactus and Modular Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAMApplied MaterialsPublic · $380.7BCactus Platform and SmartFactory AI IQworks do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TCactus Platform and Amazon SageMaker AI do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAdobePublic · $115.9BCactus Platform and Adobe Firefly Custom Models do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDTDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BCactus and Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BCactus and Decart Optimization Stack both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedCactus and Civitai both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEEncordPrivateCactus Platform and Encord both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BCactus Platform and Open Weights Licensing do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BCactus and SenseCore both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSpace42Public · $2.6BCactus Platform and GIQ do comparable work on model training; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFalPrivateCactus and fal Serverless both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUiPathPublic · $7.2BCactus Platform and UiPath AI Center do comparable work on model training; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepchecksAbsorbedCactus Platform and Deepchecks ML Testing both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; Deepchecks is absorbed, with no independent scale.Shared product typeCompareSAScale AIPrivate · $29BCactus Platform and Scale Data Engine both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BCactus and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Cactus Compute's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and model API rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHAHume AIPrivateCactus Platform and Data Solutions both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompare

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Employees

Company disclosure · 17 Sep 2026

Y Combinator company page: team size 8, Summer 2025 batch, San Francisco. Company-authored, so company-disclosure.

Description

Company disclosure · 17 Sep 2026

Delivery test (§1.1): the engine is what makes a model run on a customer’s phone or embedded device — infrastructure the end product depends on.

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