Baseten has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out. ML model deployment platform… Not verified — our read of 2026-09-10 found a change we could not reconcile, and our read of 2026-10-04 did not confirm the terms. Compare with 29 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 has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out: ML model deployment platform… We are not rating this offer today; this page's Last read note says why.
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. We publish no change we refused to record, so treat the empty history as a statement about our records, not about this vendor's pricing.
How Baseten compares against every one of the 29 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 |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| paperspace | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | caution |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| Roboflow | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Replicate | Trial | stable |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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Look up Baseten programmatically with the AgentDeals MCP server:
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"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Baseten",
"limit": 5
}
}