# Baseten vs Cerebrium (slim)

> Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do compute gpu.

- Baseten: B 66.5, rank #233 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md
- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #512 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Baseten, good for Teams that want one model behind a production endpoint with real autoscaling knobs, environments and scoped keys. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 48; Schema & documentation, 84 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 55 against 49; Security & auth, 82 against 60; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 90 against 75. Also Open source.
- Cerebrium, good for Teams serving their own models as real-time endpoints (voice, LLM, image) who want per-second billing, multi-region placement and a scriptable management API. Also No incidents deducted, where Baseten loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Baseten | Cerebrium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baseten | Cerebrium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Baseten | Cerebrium Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | 920 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |