Baseten free tier includes ML model deployment platform… Not verified — our last read, on 2026-09-10, found a change we could not reconcile. Compare with 28 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: model_hosting — you supply or select a model and the platform serves it behind an endpoint on hardware you choose; llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.baseten.co/pricing/, where it says: “Model APIs Instant access to pre-optimized models” How we use this.
Baseten's free tier offers ML model deployment platform… When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-10, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms and are not rating this offer today.
ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount. Basic plan: $0 per month, pay as you go. Dedicated deployments bill per minute. Model APIs bill per 1M tokens: GLM-5.3 $1.40/$4.40. GLM-5.3-Flash $0.15/$0.50.
No recorded pricing changes for Baseten — but when we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-10, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot tell you that nothing changed. Treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.
How Baseten compares against every one of the 28 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Roboflow | Free | caution |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | unrated |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| paperspace | Free | stable |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| LLM7.io | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | stable |
| Replicate | Trial | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | source unconfirmed |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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