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Baseten

Inference infrastructure for running machine-learning models in production, with managed runtimes and cross-cloud deployment, hosted open-model APIs and managed training.

Supplied by: NVIDIA

Partner of Alphabet (Google)

StageLate-stage

Founded2019

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

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

• Baseten Platform Sold on its own

  Deploys and serves machine-learning models as production endpoints on managed GPU infrastructure.

• Baseten Model APIs Model API Sold on its own

  Pre-optimised hosted endpoints for open-source frontier models, called without deploying or managing a deployment first.

• Baseten Frontier Gateway API service

  Production-grade API launch platform for model labs: takes a lab's model from research to a reliable, scalable, white-labelled API in days, distinct from Baseten's Distribution Platform (model marketplace listing).

Inside Baseten

• Baseten Training Platform Included with the parent

  Trains and fine-tunes models on managed GPUs: Training Jobs (generally available, existing scripts) and Loops (early access, reinforcement learning through the Loops SDK), deploying the result onto Baseten's inference stack.

• Baseten Inference Runtime Infrastructure service Included with the parent

  Named inference runtime (automatic TensorRT/SGLang/vLLM builds, speculative decoding, custom kernel fusion, KV-cache optimisation) that underlies Baseten's Dedicated Inference, Model APIs and Training products.

• Baseten Dedicated Inference Infrastructure service Included with the parent

  Dedicated model deployments on the Baseten Inference Stack: autoscale across clouds, run in Baseten's cloud or the customer's, and pay for GPU or CPU compute by the minute.

• Baseten Multi-cloud Capacity Management Infrastructure service AI feature

  Pools GPU capacity from 20+ clouds and regions as one resource for a customer's model replicas, with SLA-aware autoscaling, intelligent request routing and active-active failover.

Closest alternatives 3

FAFireworks AILate-stageContrary Research names Baseten among Fireworks AI's closest competitors, the managed inference companies.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandSourced competitorServe a model in productionCompareRRunPodLate-stageRunpod's own alternatives page positions Runpod Serverless against Baseten for serving models in production.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleSourced competitorServe a model in productionCompareMModalLate-stageSacra, on Baseten's own page: 'Modal Labs is Baseten's closest competitor' -- both are model-serving/inference-hosting platforms.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleSourced competitorServe a model in productionCompare

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similar scale (public).2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublicBaseten's model APIs and NVIDIA NIM both serve hosted models, but Baseten runs its inference on the NVIDIA Blackwell platform it buys through Google Cloud — a customer, not a chip rival.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSupplierCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Press release · 22 Jun 2026 at least

Baseten's own Series F release: "Baseten has raised over $2 billion to date". A floor, not an exact total.

Stage, from valuation

Press release · 22 Jun 2026

Announcing our Series F, Baseten, 2026-06-22. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-06-22. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Company disclosure · 11 Sep 2026

Baseten's own blog: "In 2019, we founded Baseten to tackle challenges we faced in building ML models..."

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

Hero reads "Inference is everything" over "The fastest model runtimes, cross-cloud high availability... Powered by the Baseten Inference Stack." Nothing on the page is about deploying apps.

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