Baseten vs FriendliAI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Baseten
Production model serving that hit $600M ARR in 2026.
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FriendliAI
Enterprise LLM inference at up to 90% lower GPU cost — built on the OR...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Up to $10K inference credits via application (10-day review, production-intent teams only) |
| Paid from | — | Serverless from $0.10/1M input tokens; Dedicated from $2.90/hr (A100 80GB) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 25-30 large enterprise clients (mid-2025); small team |
| Founded | — | 2021 |
| Maker | — | FriendliAI Corp |
| Verdict | This is infrastructure for teams that have models and engineers to run them, not a point-and-click app. Truss, Baseten's open-source framework, turns a Hugging Face or custom model into an autoscaling HTTPS endpoint and... |
FriendliAI's edge is real research pedigree — its founders wrote the ORCA paper that gave the industry continuous batching, and the custom-built inference engine that grew out of it delivers cost and throughput numbers t... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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