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Fireworks AI

Infrastructure

Inference and fine-tuning infrastructure for developers, serving open and closed models behind one API.

Supplied by: NVIDIA

Total funding$1.8B

Valuation$17.5B

Employees115

Founded2022

HeadquartersSan Mateo, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

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

• Fireworks AI Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted API for serving and fine-tuning open-weight models, billed per token.

• Fireworks Nexus Model API Sold on its own

  Drop-in API endpoint that routes each request across models to trade cost against quality.

• Fireworks Inference API service Sold on its own

  Serving for frontier open models and for a customer's own post-trained versions of them, on an inference engine tuned at each layer.

• Fireworks Training API service Sold on its own

  Training and retraining of custom models on Fireworks, offered across several training surfaces and served on the same platform.

• Fireworks Speech Recognition API service Sold on its own

  Real-time and batch speech-to-text on Fireworks, aimed at voice workflows that need low-latency transcription at scale.

Closest alternatives 3

BBasetenPrivate · $13BContrary Research profile.3 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandSourced competitorServe a model in productionCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedNamed as a secondary competitor for fast inference of open-weight models, the same job Modal's platform performs.3 of 5 capabilitiesDifferent layerSourced competitorServe a model in productionCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BFireworks' own blog positions itself as the platform teams migrate to after validating on OpenAI's API and needing production-grade open-source inference.2 of 5 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorBuild on a hosted model APICompare

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Total funding

Third-party database · 27 Aug 2026

stockanalysis.com's own cumulative tally across its recorded funding rounds for this company, read 2026-08-27. The individual citation attached to this figure on the page is for the LATEST round only (Announcing our Series D and $1B ARR) and does not itself state the cumulative total — flagged and excluded rather than treated as verifying the sum.

Valuation

Press release · 15 Jul 2026

Announcing our Series D and $1B ARR, Fireworks AI, 2026-07-15. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-07-15. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · 28 Oct 2025

AI Inference Startup Fireworks AI Is Valued at $4 Billion in Funding Round, The Wall Street Journal, 2025-10-28. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

The site's own framing is "Foundational Infrastructure for Specialized Intelligence" and "A drop-in replacement for closed-model APIs" — training, tuning and inference, not app development.

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