{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "baseten", "name": "Baseten", "vendor": "Baseten", "vendorUrl": "https://www.baseten.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "gpu-compute", "summary": "Dedicated model deployments packaged with the open-source Truss framework and served behind a per-model HTTPS endpoint, with autoscaling from zero replicas, async inference, a management API and per-minute GPU billing from T4 to B200.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baseten.json", "repo": "https://github.com/basetenlabs/truss", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.baseten.co", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "truss" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key from the workspace settings, sent as `Authorization: Bearer $BASETEN_API_KEY` (preferred) or the legacy `Authorization: Api-Key` scheme. Keys created from 1 October 2026 carry a `b10_` prefix. Inference goes to model-\u003cid\u003e.api.baseten.co and management calls to api.baseten.co.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Basic is $0 a month, pay as you go; Pro and Enterprise add volume discounts. Dedicated deployments bill per minute of replica time, including start-up and idle, and nothing at zero replicas. T4 16 GiB $0.01052 a minute (about $0.63 an hour), L4 24 GiB $0.01414 ($0.85), A10G 24 GiB $0.02012 ($1.21), H100 MIG 40 GiB $0.0625 ($3.75), A100 80 GiB $0.06667 ($4.00), H100 80 GiB $0.10833 ($6.50), B200 180 GiB $0.16633 ($9.98). New accounts get a small credit to try the UI. Model APIs bill per token instead (https://www.baseten.co/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 74496, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.baseten.co", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.baseten.co/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.baseten.co/v1/spec", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.endpoints", "compute.serverless", "compute.containers" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "python", "llms-txt", "open-source", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 157, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 84, "security": 82, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "-5: a GitHub personal access token for `basetenbot`, exposed in a public Harbor image since March 2023, gave admin and push access to Baseten's main product repository, the GitOps repository that drives its clusters, its Homebrew tap and per-customer private repositories. Reported on 2026-07-13, revoked on 2026-07-14, no misuse found, published with Baseten's approval in September 2026. Deducted less because the fix was quick and documented (https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover)" ], "verdict": "Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026. H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed.", "strengths": [ "Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026", "Public OpenAPI spec for the management API at api.baseten.co/v1/spec, and llms.txt with Markdown twins", "Rate limits published per endpoint with a `retry_after` field on 429", "Free starting credits with no payment method needed until they run out", "Truss (MIT) keeps the model package portable, with three releases in September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed", "21 status-page incidents between 31 July and 29 September 2026, mostly single-cluster 5xx", "A bot token with admin access to the product and GitOps repositories sat exposed from March 2023 until July 2026", "No pagination on management list endpoints and no idempotency keys", "No SLA below Enterprise, no bug bounty and no security.txt" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a team key with inference-only permission for calling models and keep full-access keys out of the agent", "Sleep for `retry_after` seconds on a 429 from api.baseten.co; the activate and deactivate endpoints allow 20 calls a minute", "Retry 429, 503 and 529 with backoff, but treat 500 as a bug in your model code", "Set `scale_down_delay` below the 900-second default or every burst bills 15 idle minutes", "Send payloads over 256 KiB to `/predict`, not `/async_predict`, unless support has raised the async limit" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 84, "security": 82, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install truss", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://model-$BASETEN_MODEL_ID.api.baseten.co/environments/production/predict\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BASETEN_API_KEY\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"prompt\":\"Hello, world!\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu", "tool": "https://letme.dev/baseten" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "H100 80 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 6.5, "note": "$0.10833 a minute" }, { "item": "B200 180 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 9.98, "note": "$0.16633 a minute" }, { "item": "A100 80 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 4, "note": "$0.06667 a minute" }, { "item": "H100 MIG 40 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3.75, "note": "$0.0625 a minute" }, { "item": "A10G 24 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.21, "note": "$0.02012 a minute" }, { "item": "L4 24 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.85, "note": "$0.01414 a minute" }, { "item": "T4 16 GiB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.63, "note": "$0.01052 a minute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Baseten Labs, Inc.", "domain": "baseten.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.baseten.co/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.baseten.co/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.baseten.co", "changelog": "https://www.baseten.co/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Terms name Baseten Labs, Inc. under California law with venue in San Francisco. The privacy policy gives 560 Davis St., Suite 250, San Francisco.", "Inference runs on model-\u003cid\u003e.api.baseten.co, a subdomain of the vendor domain.", "www.baseten.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The .co registry's RDAP server couldn't be reached, so the registration date is unrecorded." ], "score": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.json", "live": { "slug": "baseten", "probe": { "target": "https://api.baseten.co", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:16.457124545Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 202, "lastMs": 441, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 454, "p95ms24h": 505, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 911, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 11, "ok": 11 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.baseten.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T00:53:43.215147369Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "basetenlabs/truss", "version": "v0.18.32", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:03.609365578Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "truss", "version": "0.18.32", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:01.591112358Z" } ], "githubStars": 1207, "pypiWeekly": 67780, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://baseten.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:51.119519284Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.baseten.co/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:19.413388797Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "baseten.co", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:05.701625104Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:24.926514442Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:37:20.756910326Z", "fingerprint": "6cee5804197b" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:27.25006425Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "990de850b24f" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:29.099232624Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "66effb5a49f2" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:31.355740184Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "38417e30dfca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:16.457124545Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "beam", "name": "Beam", "vendor": "Beam", "vendorUrl": "https://www.beam.cloud", "kind": "platform", "category": "gpu-compute", "summary": "Serverless GPU endpoints, task queues, functions, pods and sandboxes from Python decorators, on the open-source beta9 runtime.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json", "repo": "https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9", "license": "AGPL-3.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "beam-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API token from platform.beam.cloud, read from `BEAM_TOKEN` by the SDK and CLI or stored by `beam login` in `~/.beam/config.ini`, with named contexts for several workspaces. Deployed endpoints take the same token as `Authorization: Bearer`. The TypeScript SDK sets `beamOpts.token` server-side.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Developer plan is free plus usage, Team $89 a month plus usage, Growth on request. Billed by the millisecond only while a container runs, which includes `on_start` and `keep_warm_seconds`; cold starts and image pulls aren't billed. Serverless GPUs are RTX 4090 24 GB $0.000192 a second ($0.69 an hour), RTX 5090 32 GB $0.000303 ($1.09), H100 PCIe 80 GB $0.000972 ($3.50). Reserved on-demand machines from $0.44 an hour (RTX 4090), $1.36 (A100 80 GB), $1.83 (H100 PCIe), $2.09 (H200), $4.11 (B200), billed until released even when idle. CPU $0.0000125 a core-second and RAM $0.0000021 a GiB-second on CPU-only work, $0.000105 and $0.0000055 when attached to a GPU, $0.0000375 and $0.0000064 in sandboxes. Storage 1 TB included, then $0.021 a GB-month (https://www.beam.cloud/pricing, https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/resources/pricing-and-billing).", "priceSummary": "$0.045 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1800, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 8481, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.beam.cloud", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.beam.cloud/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.serverless", "compute.endpoints", "compute.batch", "compute.containers" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "open-source", "self-hosted", "python", "typescript", "llms-txt", "async-jobs" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 313, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 58, "security": 50, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "-2: `beam deploy --format json` writes the full workspace bearer token into the JSON logs array that CI systems keep. Filed by a Beam engineer on 2026-08-04 and still open on 2026-10-01 (https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9/issues/1828)" ], "verdict": "Per-millisecond billing with cold starts and image pulls free, H100 PCIe at $3.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.69 an hour. No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA.", "strengths": [ "Per-millisecond billing with cold starts and image pulls free, H100 PCIe at $3.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.69 an hour", "Free Developer plan with no card required", "beta9, the engine the hosted cloud runs on, is AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable", "Workspace REST API and an official MCP server, local or remote, on the same token", "Privacy policy with retention periods per category and a published subprocessor list" ], "weaknesses": [ "No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA", "No public changelog or deprecation notices; releases show up only on PyPI and GitHub", "Tokens have no documented scopes or read-only mode", "`beam deploy --format json` leaks the workspace token into its logs, open since 4 August 2026", "Status page silent since June 2025 despite sign-up failures reported on GitHub in August 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the response body for `ok: false` on gateway calls; a failure can arrive as HTTP 200", "Don't pipe `beam deploy --format json` output into CI logs, since it contains the workspace token", "Route anything over 180 seconds to a task queue and poll the task instead of holding the endpoint request", "Set `keep_warm_seconds` deliberately; the 180-second endpoint default bills three minutes of GPU after every call", "Pass `gpu=[\"RTX4090\", \"A10G\"]` so a job still schedules when one type is out" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 58, "security": 50, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install beam-client \u0026\u0026 beam login", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://my-function-$BEAM_DEPLOYMENT_ID-v1.app.beam.cloud\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BEAM_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"x\":10}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu", "tool": "https://letme.dev/beam" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "H100 PCIe 80 GB serverless", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3.5, "note": "$0.000972 a second" }, { "item": "RTX 5090 32 GB serverless", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.09, "note": "$0.000303 a second" }, { "item": "RTX 4090 24 GB serverless", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.69, "note": "$0.000192 a second" }, { "item": "B200 180 GB reserved machine", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 4.11, "note": "From price, billed while reserved" }, { "item": "H200 141 GB reserved machine", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 2.09, "note": "From price, billed while reserved" }, { "item": "A100 80 GB reserved machine", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.36, "note": "From price, billed while reserved" }, { "item": "CPU-only compute", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.045, "note": "$0.0000125 a core-second, RAM extra at $0.0000021 a GiB-second" }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 89, "note": "Plus usage" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Smartshare, Inc.", "domain": "beam.cloud", "domainRegistered": "2019-07-31", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/terms-and-conditions", "privacy": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.beam.cloud", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "Terms dated 14 September 2026 name Smartshare, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Beam. The site footer reads © 2026 Smartshare, Inc.", "Deployed endpoints run on app.beam.cloud, a subdomain of the vendor domain. There's no public REST base URL for deploying.", "www.beam.cloud/.well-known/security.txt and www.beam.cloud/terms return 404; the legal pages live under docs.beam.cloud.", "No public changelog found; releases show up as commits in the beam-client and beta9 repositories." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.json", "live": { "slug": "beam", "probe": { "target": "https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:16.722997642Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 258, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 259, "p95ms24h": 319, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 654, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 100, "ok": 100 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 11, "ok": 11 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.beam.cloud", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T00:53:43.222251946Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "beam-cloud/beta9", "version": "worker-0.1.781", "released": "2026-10-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:06.02863332Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "beam-client", "version": "0.2.217", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:05.839399711Z" } ], "githubStars": 1802, "pypiWeekly": 9877, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://beam.cloud/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:04.647716161Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:19.657901017Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "beam.cloud", "registered": "2019-07-31", "source": "https://rdap.registry.cloud/rdap/domain/beam.cloud", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:15.987834596Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/resources/pricing-and-billing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:14.08690057Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:14.08690057Z", "fingerprint": "9430ae529da0" }, { "url": "https://www.beam.cloud/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:25.671086961Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dedbd2b07b0a" }, { "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:16.313382922Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:16.313382922Z", "fingerprint": "4072b33654b6" }, { "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:18.294864193Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:18.294864193Z", "fingerprint": "988292e328cf" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:57:16.722997642Z" } }, "summary": "Baseten has a score of 66.7 (B) against Beam's 55.5 (C). Both do compute gpu. The largest gap is security \u0026 auth, 32 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.min.md" }, "markdown": "Baseten has a score of 66.7 (B) against Beam's 55.5 (C). Both do compute gpu. The largest gap is security \u0026 auth, 32 points.\n\n- Baseten: grade B, 66.7/100, rank #157 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baseten.json\n- Beam: grade C, 55.5/100, rank #313 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Baseten for reliability (+25), schema \u0026 documentation (+26), security \u0026 auth (+32), maintenance \u0026 community (+5).\n\nPick Beam for transparency \u0026 trust (+7).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baseten | Beam | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 55 | Baseten +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 58 | Baseten +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 58 | Beam +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 82 | 50 | Baseten +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 85 | Baseten +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 74 | Beam +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **55.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baseten | Beam |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Baseten | Beam |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Baseten.** Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026. H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed.\n\n**Beam.** Per-millisecond billing with cold starts and image pulls free, H100 PCIe at $3.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.69 an hour. No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Baseten\n\n1. Create a team key with inference-only permission for calling models and keep full-access keys out of the agent\n2. Sleep for `retry_after` seconds on a 429 from api.baseten.co; the activate and deactivate endpoints allow 20 calls a minute\n3. Retry 429, 503 and 529 with backoff, but treat 500 as a bug in your model code\n4. Set `scale_down_delay` below the 900-second default or every burst bills 15 idle minutes\n5. Send payloads over 256 KiB to `/predict`, not `/async_predict`, unless support has raised the async limit\n\n### Beam\n\n1. Check the response body for `ok: false` on gateway calls; a failure can arrive as HTTP 200\n2. Don't pipe `beam deploy --format json` output into CI logs, since it contains the workspace token\n3. Route anything over 180 seconds to a task queue and poll the task instead of holding the endpoint request\n4. Set `keep_warm_seconds` deliberately; the 180-second endpoint default bills three minutes of GPU after every call\n5. Pass `gpu=[\"RTX4090\", \"A10G\"]` so a job still schedules when one type is out\n\n## Other comparisons with Baseten or Beam\n\n- [Baseten vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Baseten vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Baseten vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-modal.md)\n- [Baseten vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Baseten vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Baseten vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Beam vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Beam vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Beam vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-modal.md)\n- [Beam vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Beam vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Beam vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-runpod.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Baseten vs Beam", "url": "" } ], "description": "Baseten has a score of 66.7 (B) against Beam's 55.5 (C). 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