Baseten is a software organization that offers impressive machine learning models and libraries for developers and AI engineers. The company offers libraries in the text generation, text to audio, text to speech, and text to image space. You also have the ability to host your own models and scale them for your projects (think of it as “model” hosting).
Pro’s:
Here’s what we like about Baseten:
- Tons of advanced models: When it comes to a model library—there’s going to be something in here that you can use for your projects.
- Models for multiple AI agents: Whether you’re playing with Mixtral or ChatGPT, you’re going to be able to apply the models to a project that integrates with multiple AI agents and systems.
- Easy to deploy your own models: Model hosting is fairly easy to do.
Con’s:
Here’s what we don’t like about Baseten:
- Pretty specific to model hosting: If you’re just looking for model hosting—this is a great solution for you. But if you wanted something more (like a community of people to work with) this might not be for you.
Pricing:
- Use “$30 worth of credits” on hosting
- After that, you have to contact sales for more
Questions and answers:
Here is a breakdown of common questions about Baseten and answers from our review team.
| Common question | Answer |
| What is “scale to zero?” | This is Batten’s way of thinking about cold starts, infrastructure costs, and more. Think of this as an easy way to test your model before you know it works for your needs. |
