How much does Baseten cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- New accounts come with free credits; duration not stated
- Usage price
- $1.40/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free trial. New accounts come with free credits; duration not stated
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup "Get started"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Pro and Enterprise are by quote "Get a quote"
- Support
- Email and in-app chat on Basic "Email and in-app chat support"
- Support
- Dedicated Slack and Zoom on Pro "Dedicated support on Slack and Zoom"
What Baseten does
Baseten offers pay-per-token Model APIs for hosted open models and per-minute dedicated GPU and CPU deployments for custom models, plus a training product. It can run in Baseten's cloud, in a customer's VPC (self-hosted) or hybrid.
- Good for
- Teams that need high-performance, production-scale inference for open-source, custom or fine-tuned models, including regulated workloads that need SOC 2 or HIPAA.
- Channels
- Baseten Cloud, Self-hosted (your VPC), Hybrid
- Main product
- Baseten Inference Stack: Model APIs, Dedicated Deployments and Training
- Also includes
- Dedicated deployments, Model APIs, Training, Fast cold starts, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant, Email and in-app chat support
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Pay-per-token pricing
Price per 1M tokens
- Multiple models available
Instant access to pre-optimized models running on the Baseten Inference Stack.
- Fine-tuning support
Serve open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models on infra purpose-built for high-performance inference at m
- Streaming responses
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- Tool and function callingNot stated
- SOC 2 compliance
We are SOC-2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant across all hosting options
- No training on your dataNot stated
- Discounted batch processingNot stated
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available | "Baseten's standard BAA is available at <https://www.baseten.co/baa>"terms |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "Yes, Baseten is SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant."pricing |
| GDPR | listed | "GDPR"security |
| CCPA | compliant | "CCPA"security |
| PCI | PCI DSS SAQ D | "PCI DSS - SAQ D"security |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001:2022 | "ISO 27001:2022"security |
| Single sign-on | supported | "With RBAC and fine-grained team-level access controls, SSO, integration support across detailed logging, custom metrics, and tracing"enterprise |
| Trust center | https://trust.baseten.co | "Baseten's Trust Center"security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basicper month, pay as you go | $0 | – | – | – | "$0 per month, pay as you go" |
| Model APIs: GLM-5.3 (input)per 1M input tokens | $1.40per minute | – | – | – | "$1.40" |
| Dedicated Deployments: H100 (80 GiB VRAM)per minute | $0.11per minute | – | – | – | "$0.10833" |
| Dedicated Deployments: A100 (80 GiB VRAM)per minute | $0.07per minute | – | – | – | "$0.06667" |
| Dedicated Deployments: T4 (16 GiB VM)per minute | $0.01per minute | – | – | – | "$0.01052" |
| Pro | Quote | – | – | – | "Volume discounts available" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Contact our sales team to discuss pricing based on your specific needs" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- per minute "Only pay for the compute you use, down to the minute."
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Baseten Labs, Inc.
- Address
- 560 Davis St., Suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Ships updates
- 3 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 28, 2026, from their changelog
- Founder
- Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and Co-Founder
- Founder
- Amir Haghighat, CTO and Co-Founder
- Founder
- Phil Howes, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
- Founder
- Pankaj Gupta, Co-Founder
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Questions
Is Baseten free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: New accounts come with free credits; duration not stated.
Is Baseten HIPAA compliant?
Baseten says a HIPAA BAA is available.
