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Cerebras Inference pricing

Cerebras sells fast AI inference on its own wafer-scale chips, through a cloud API and on-premise systems.

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Visit Cerebras InferencePrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Cerebras Inference cost?

PriceNot publishedCerebras Inference asks you to contact sales.
Free plan
Not stated
Free trial
Free trial on the Cerebras Inference Cloud; pricing page mentions a one-time $5…
Enterprise
Contact sales
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In your favor

  • Free trial. Free trial on the Cerebras Inference Cloud; pricing page mentions a one-time $5 promotional credit expiring 30 days after activation

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get Started, Get started, Contact us, Buy with AWS
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Sign up at cloud.cerebras.ai
"Get started"
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
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What Cerebras Inference does

Cerebras offers a pay-as-you-go inference cloud with an OpenAI-compatible API serving open and partner models, plus dedicated and on-premise deployments. It also offers fine-tuning and pre-training on the same platform.

Good for
Developers and enterprises building latency-sensitive AI apps such as coding assistants, agents, voice and search, who want fast inference on open models.
Channels
Cerebras Cloud, AWS Marketplace, OpenRouter, HuggingFace, Vercel
Main product
Cerebras Inference Cloud
Also includes
Public inference endpoint with API key, Drop-in OpenAI API compatibility, Dedicated and on-premise deployment options, Fine-tuning and pre-training on own data, Models including Qwen, GPT 5.6 Sol Ultrafast, Kimi K2.6, Codex-Spark
Connects to
OpenAI API, AWS Marketplace, OpenRouter, HuggingFace, Vercel AI Gateway, LiveKit
Public API
Yes
MCP server
Not stated
  • Pay-per-token pricingdevelopers and enterprises everywhere can access the power of Cerebras through our pay-as-you-go cloud offerin
  • Multiple models availableChoose from a regularly updated lineup of models on our public endpoint with your API key.
  • Fine-tuning supportStart with lightning-fast inference, then fine-tune or even pre-train models with your own data to optimize mo
  • Streaming responsesNot stated
  • Tool and function callingNot stated
  • SOC 2 complianceCompliance SOC 2
  • No training on your datathe foregoing does not grant Cerebras the right to use Service Content for the purpose of training or fine-tun
  • Discounted batch processingNot stated

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Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?no"the foregoing does not grant Cerebras the right to use Service Content for the purpose of training or fine-tuning models."terms
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2SOC 2 listed under compliance"Compliance SOC 2"security
GDPRGDPR listed under compliance"GDPR"security
CCPACCPA listed under compliance"CCPA"security
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centerhttps://trust.cerebras.ai/"Welcome to Cerebras Systems' Trust Center"security

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

No prices are published on Cerebras Inference's pricing page.

Fine print

Billing increment
Not stated
Billed beyond usage
Not stated
Contract
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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
Cerebras Systems Inc.
Address
1237 E. Arques Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Online since
Dec 15, 2017
Domain registration date
Founder
Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker
Funding
Began trading on Nasdaq under ticker CBRS in May 2026
"In May, Cerebras begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS."
Customers
"Used by organizations across medical research, cryptography, energy and agentic AI; powers Meta's Llama API, Perplexity, Mistral"
their claim
Backing
"Investors include Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever"
their words

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Questions

Is Cerebras Inference free?

There's no free plan. Free trial: Free trial on the Cerebras Inference Cloud; pricing page mentions a one-time $5 promotional credit expiring 30 days after activation.

Does Cerebras Inference train AI on your data?

No, according to Cerebras Inference: "the foregoing does not grant Cerebras the right to use Service Content for the purpose of training or fine-tuning models."