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Isoquant

Inference cloud for open models: an OpenAI-style API serves open models such as GLM-5.3-Flash at published per-token prices with automatic prompt caching and published latency and throughput, and for companies it continuously trains, tunes and optimizes models around a customer's own workload for higher quality, lower cost and faster responses.

StageUndisclosed

Founded2026

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

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• Isoquant Model API Sold on its own

  Inference API for open models with a chat-completions interface: GLM-5.3-Flash at $0.09 per million input tokens, $0.030 cached input and $0.35 output, automatic prompt caching, no top-up fees, and published time to first token and throughput; for companies, self-optimizing inference that trains, tunes and optimizes models around a customer's workload, sold by contact.

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OOllamaEarly-stageIsoquant and Ollama Cloud both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFAFireworks AILate-stageIsoquant and Fireworks AI both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBasetenLate-stageIsoquant and Baseten Model APIs both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNGNebius GroupPublicIsoquant and Nebius Token Factory both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKEKakao EnterpriseUndisclosedIsoquant and Kubeflow do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLambdaLate-stageIsoquant and Lambda Inference both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRunPodLate-stageIsoquant and Public Endpoints both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHCHuawei CloudUndisclosedIsoquant and MaaS both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReplicateUndisclosedIsoquant and Replicate both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTATogether AILate-stageIsoquant and Together Inference both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModularAcquiredIsoquant and Modular Cloud both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDatabricksLate-stageIsoquant and Databricks Model Serving both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElasticPublicIsoquant and Elastic Inference Service both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareVVMwareAcquiredIsoquant and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFFalUndisclosedIsoquant and fal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModalLate-stageIsoquant and Modal Inference both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCrusoeLate-stageIsoquant and Crusoe Managed Inference both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDecartLate-stageIsoquant and Cogito both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeliconeAcquiredIsoquant and Helicone AI Gateway both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVEVolcano EngineUndisclosedIsoquant and BytePlus ModelArk both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHFHugging FaceLate-stageIsoquant and Spaces both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 3 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCivitaiEarly-stageIsoquant and Civitai API both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNCNAVER CloudUndisclosedIsoquant and ML expert Platform do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTThe Token CompanyUndisclosedIsoquant and The Token Company LLM input compression both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHopperUndisclosedIsoquant and Hopper both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublicIsoquant and Meta Model API both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTrimioUndisclosedIsoquant and Trimio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredIsoquant and Serverless Inference both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNDNot DiamondUndisclosedIsoquant and Not Diamond both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNNVIDIAPublicIsoquant and NVIDIA NIM both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublicIsoquant and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRespanEarly-stageIsoquant and Respan AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKuaishouPublicIsoquant and Vanchin do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterLate-stageIsoquant and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCore42UndisclosedIsoquant and Core42 Compass both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTencentPublicIsoquant and TokenHub both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLSLM StudioUndisclosedIsoquant and LM Studio both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVVercelLate-stageIsoquant and Vercel AI Gateway both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareUUnslothUndisclosedIsoquant and Unsloth both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCohereLate-stageIsoquant and Model Vault both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareASAI SpendOpsUndisclosedIsoquant and AI SpendOps both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareHHuaweiUndisclosedIsoquant and MindIE both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; Huawei's scale not comparable: only a revenue estimate, no market cap or valuation; ships application, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLiteLLMEarly-stageIsoquant and Auto Router both serve buyers who need to track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAmazonPublicIsoquant and Amazon SageMaker AI do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareJJFrogPublicIsoquant and JFrog ML do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAMDPublicIsoquant and AMD Enterprise AI Reference Stack both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships application, hardware and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareYYandexPublicIsoquant and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting and model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDTDell TechnologiesPublicIsoquant and Dell Enterprise Hub both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships application, data service and 3 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareTTrueFoundryEarly-stageIsoquant and TrueFoundry AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVVast.aiUndisclosedIsoquant and Vast.ai GPU Cloud both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareEAEden AIEarly-stageIsoquant and Eden AI both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNCNodus ComputeUndisclosedIsoquant and Nodus both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMAMistral AILate-stageIsoquant and Mistral Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoreWeavePublicIsoquant and CoreWeave Kubernetes Service both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 4 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMicrosoftPublicIsoquant and Foundry Models both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 6 more rather than the same layer.3 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareQQualcommPublicIsoquant and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships application, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCCCactus ComputeUndisclosedIsoquant and Cactus Platform both list model training; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRequestyEarly-stageIsoquant and Requesty AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareCSCerebras SystemsPublicIsoquant and Cerebras Inference both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLangWatchUndisclosedIsoquant and LangWatch AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGroqLate-stageIsoquant and GroqCloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLabelboxLate-stageIsoquant and Recursion Managed Agents both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform, application and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSpendlineUndisclosedIsoquant and Spendline both serve buyers who need to track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareALAI21 LabsLate-stageIsoquant and AI21 Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATypeSafe AIEarly-stageIsoquant and Jev both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHiveLate-stageIsoquant and Hive AutoML both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships API service, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareGGitLabPublicIsoquant and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted both list model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, agent platform and 4 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBaiduPublicIsoquant and Baidu Qianfan both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCMComet MLEarly-stageIsoquant and Cost Intelligence both serve buyers who need to track and cut what we spend on AI models; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOraclePublicIsoquant and Generative AI Capabilities both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSambaNovaLate-stageIsoquant and SambaCloud both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublicIsoquant and SenseNova both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareILInception LabsUndisclosedIsoquant and Mercury both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatadogPublicIsoquant and AI Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API and track and cut what we spend on AI models; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 3 more rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareTMThinking Machines LabLate-stageIsoquant and Tinker both list model training; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships API service rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAssemblyAILate-stageIsoquant and AssemblyAI LLM Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships API service and application rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareBBrowserbaseEarly-stageIsoquant and Browserbase Model Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; Isoquant's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMAMaxim AIUndisclosedIsoquant and Bifrost both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships application, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareMMastraEarly-stageIsoquant and Mastra Gateway both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, API service and 3 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Total funding

Not found · 18 Oct 2026

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Valuation

Not found · 18 Oct 2026

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Founded

Company disclosure · 18 Oct 2026

Own YC profile lists Founded: 2026; isoquant.ai states no founding year.

Public listing

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Description

Official documentation · 18 Oct 2026

Home page: "Inference at the frontier of model performance."; "Run open models at the lowest cost and latency, with APIs that work with your existing stack."

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