Fireworks AI
Hosted API for serving and fine-tuning open-weight models, billed per token.
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Per-token rates published alongside a contact-sales tier; no free tier is named.
What it does
- Model inference
- Model training
How it compares
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Sources
- Pricing
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Per-token rates published alongside a contact-sales tier; no free tier is named.
- Sold within
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Fireworks' pricing page says "Start building in seconds, self-serve. Contact us for enterprise deployments with faster speeds, lower costs, and higher rate limits." Serverless inference is "Pay per token, with high rate limits and postpaid billing. Get started with $1 in free credits."
- Deployment
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Inferred 2026-09-08, not read off a page: every already-decided product of type 'model-api' in this catalogue includes "saas" in its deployment list, zero exceptions, per item 198's measured cross-tab. May be incomplete if this product also offers a self-hosted or private-cloud option; not wrong either way.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 29 Sep 2026
Footer navigation names both routes directly: 'CLI' linking to docs.fireworks.ai/tools-sdks/firectl/firectl and 'API' linking to docs.fireworks.ai/api-reference/introduction.
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Fireworks Nexus Model API
Drop-in API endpoint that routes each request across models to trade cost against quality.
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Fireworks Inference API service
Serving for frontier open models and for a customer's own post-trained versions of them, on an inference engine tuned at each layer.
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Fireworks Training API service
Training and retraining of custom models on Fireworks, offered across several training surfaces and served on the same platform.
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Fireworks Speech Recognition API service
Real-time and batch speech-to-text on Fireworks, aimed at voice workflows that need low-latency transcription at scale.
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