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Databricks Model Serving

Model API

by Databricks

A managed endpoint service for deploying and governing classical ML models, generative models and agents from one interface.

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Published per-GPU-type DBU/hour rate card (T4 ~10.48 DBU/hr, A10G 1xGPU 20.00, A10G 8xGPU 290.80, H100 1xGPU 100.00, H100 8xGPU 800.00, US East reference); also offered pay-per-token for foundation models or as provisioned throughput.

What it does

• Model inference
• Model hosting

How it compares

• Hugging Face Hub

  Databricks overlaps with Hugging Face, where enterprises want integrated data-to-model pipelines

  Research report · 19 Sep 2026

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 2 Sep 2026

Description

Official documentation · 2 Sep 2026

Sold within

Pricing page · 29 Sep 2026

Its own per-plan rate card (CPU and GPU Serving $0.070 / DBU, GPU DBU/hour table) billed on a platform SKU: "Usage of these services will be appear on your bill under the Serverless Real-time Inference SKU (or under the Model Serving SKU on SAP Databricks)." [sic] The page also says "Pay as you go with a 14-day free trial or contact us for committed-use discounts or custom requirements."

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