Baseten vs Fireworks AI
Baseten
baseten.co
Fireworks AI
fireworks.aiSide by side
| Figure | Baseten | Fireworks AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Model Hosting | 8.1 (#1) | 7.2 (#10) |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
| Integrations | Baseten’s hosted web search tools launched with Exa, Keenable, Parallel, and You.com. | Enterprise customers can purchase Fireworks through AWS and GCP marketplaces, and its enterprise access supports Google, OIDC, and SAML single sign-on. |
| Product | Baseten provides an inference platform for serving open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models in production. | Fireworks describes its cloud as infrastructure for training and serving open models and specialized models. |
| Support | Support varies by plan and includes email, in-app chat, Slack, Zoom, and dedicated forward-deployed engineering support. | Non-enterprise product support and feedback are directed to the Fireworks Discord and documentation. |
| Training | Baseten offers training infrastructure and says models trained with its Loops SDK can be deployed to production inference on the same stack. | The platform supports supervised fine-tuning, preference fine-tuning, and reinforcement training. |
Plans
Fireworks AI
- Enterprise reserved instancePriced on request
- Managed trainingPrice not published
- On-demand deploymentsPrice not published
- Serverless inference — embeddingsPrice not published
In their own words
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.