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Baseten vs Cerebrium

A side-by-side comparison of Baseten and Cerebrium, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Baseten

Inference

Inference cloud for serving any AI model in production.

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Cerebrium

Infra

Serverless GPU infrastructure for real-time AI — voice, video, and LLM workloads.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Baseten and Cerebrium
AttributeBasetenCerebrium
Category (differs)InferenceInfra
Pricing (differs)FREEMIUMPAID
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
DeploymentCloudCloud
Platforms (differs)Web, APIAPI, CLI
Model support (differs)Multi-modelModel-agnostic
Vendor (differs)BasetenCerebrium

The honest brief

Baseten

Pairs prebuilt Model APIs with dedicated Truss deployments and scale-to-zero, so you don't pay for idle GPUs.

  • Prebuilt Model APIs for Llama, DeepSeek
  • Dedicated GPU/CPU deploys for custom models
  • Open-source Truss packaging format
  • Production-grade observability and autoscaling
  • Dedicated GPU rates run pricier than Modal
  • Per-replica cost doubles for redundancy
  • Engineering effort to package custom models

Cerebrium

Tuned for real-time voice and video agents, where its fast cold starts and multi-region failover beat general-purpose GPU clouds.

  • 2–4s cold starts, scale-to-zero
  • 12+ GPU types up to B200
  • Multi-region deploys + failover
  • SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliant
  • $100/mo base on the Standard tier
  • Hobby tier capped at 3 apps, 5 GPUs
  • Younger platform, smaller community
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