FriendliAI vs Baseten vs Modal vs Together AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
FriendliAI
Enterprise LLM inference at up to 90% lower GPU cost — built on the OR...
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Baseten
Production model serving that hit $600M ARR in 2026.
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Modal
Serverless GPU compute for AI workloads
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Together AI
High-performance inference for open-weights LLMs
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid | Paid | Paid |
| 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 | — | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | FriendliAI Corp | — | — | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
Modal is a serverless compute platform built for AI and data workloads: you define functions in Python, decorate them, and Modal handles containerization, scheduling, GPUs, and autoscaling. Its strengths are developer ex... |
Together AI is a developer-focused cloud for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, and many more) with an OpenAI-compatible API, competitive pricing, and strong inference per... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.