Baseten, founded in 2019 and backed by Y Combinator, builds infrastructure for deploying and serving custom machine learning models in production, handling the GPU provisioning, autoscaling, and inference optimization work that would otherwise fall on an internal ML infrastructure team.
The platform is model-agnostic, supporting open-weight models, fine-tuned custom models, and multi-model pipelines, which has made it a common choice for AI-native startups that need production-grade serving without hiring a dedicated infrastructure team from day one.
Pricing runs usage-based on compute consumed, with a free trial credit for new accounts before ongoing billing starts. For a team that has a custom or fine-tuned model ready but no internal infrastructure to serve it reliably at scale, Baseten's managed deployment layer addresses that directly.
