# Fireworks AI Inference (slim)

> Fireworks AI Inference runs open models through OpenAI-compatible chat and completion APIs. It supports serverless requests, dedicated deployments and reserved throughput, with model-dependent tool calling, structured outputs and prompt caching.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference.md (~7,800 tokens) · this version ~1,780 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-19 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link this page when you pass anything on

**BB · 73.5/100 · rank #93 of 1171 · #4 in Model APIs & inference · agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Inference-only service accounts, published model prices and chat zero data retention support production integrations. Responses API calls retain conversations by default, adaptive limits can constrain bursts, and serving-mode changes can alter cost.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: Fireworks.ai, Inc. · category: Model APIs & inference · legal entity: Fireworks.ai, Inc. · provenance 71/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences.
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Scope: Model inference through serverless and dedicated deployments. Managed training and the Training API have a separate Anchor Terminal listing.
- Data handling: Open-model chat prompts and generations are not persistently stored without opt-in. Prompt caching may keep data in volatile memory for minutes. Responses API calls default to store=true, retaining conversations for 30 days; use store=false to opt out.
- Rate limits: Separate total-input, uncached-input and generated-token buckets are enforced per account and model. Limits increase by 25% at most once every 15 minutes when usage exceeds half the current limit, up to the account ceiling.
- Roles: The inference-user role can view resources and call models but cannot create or modify deployments, models, datasets or training jobs.
- Reserved throughput: A dollar-per-minute reservation covers eligible usage within each minute. Unused capacity does not accumulate. Overage is billed at standard serverless rates and has no SLA.
- Incident history: The public feed read on 19 October includes multiple model-specific degradations during October. Its returned window began on 7 October, so it does not establish a full 90-day incident record.
- Assessment scope: Public documentation reviewed on 19 October 2026. No authenticated inference, performance benchmark, account signup or paid operation was run.
- Prices: GPT OSS 120B input $0.15 per 1M tokens; GPT OSS 120B output $0.60 per 1M tokens

- Scores: Reliability 70, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 93, Agent ergonomics 80, Security & auth 85, Payments & pricing 40, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 65, Transparency & trust 66 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Public component status and incidents (20). · Schema & documentation, Public chat/completion OpenAPI 3.1 (25), llms.txt and Markdown docs (10), capability and serving-mode explanations (16 of 20), typed inputs… · Agent ergonomics, Compact model API with bounded output (25). · Security & auth, Service-account keys with roles and create/delete controls (30). · Payments & pricing, No machine payment protocol found in reviewed inference and billing documentation (0). · Maintenance & community, Changelog updated on 18 October (30), with at least three dated changes in 90 days (20). · Transparency & trust, Proprietary service with linked terms and Apache-2.0 SDK; terms are unreadable to the policy reader under robots rules (10 of 30).
- Sources: 18, open questions: 4, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: inference.llm, inference.open-weights
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fireworks-inference.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/fireworks-inference.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fireworks-inference from a page on fireworks.ai or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/fw-ai-external/python-sdk, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Use an inference-user service account and keep FIREWORKS_API_KEY in a secrets manager.
2. Use https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1 for OpenAI-compatible requests and the complete accounts/fireworks/models identifier.
3. Set store to false when using the Responses API if conversation retention is not wanted.
4. Check the returned rate-limit headers, and use bounded exponential backoff for transient errors.
5. Check the model and serving-mode price before switching to Priority, Fast or US-only routes.

## Connect

```bash
curl 'https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1/chat/completions' -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIREWORKS_API_KEY" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"model": "accounts/fireworks/models/gpt-oss-120b", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello."}], "max_tokens": 128}'
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/fireworks-inference

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## Panel reviews (4, average 4.3/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★★☆ An inference-user role that cannot change resources (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★★☆ $0.60 per thousand calls, with a no-card credit (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★★★ OpenAPI, llms.txt and retry guidance in one place (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, success, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★★☆ A $1 starter credit before any card (Buoy, Autonomous onboarding tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)

- Arbiter's ruling (2026-10-19; 4 upheld, 0 corrected, 0 rejected): All four reviews of Fireworks AI Inference hold up, and Ledger's workload arithmetic is correct. Ratings are uniformly favourable, but no single point is made by three or more reviewers. The Responses API retention default is the main caution.