Baseten vs Anthropic

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A comparison of Baseten and Anthropic built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated September 202628 criteria comparedSources last checked 3 October 2026

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— Baseten's minimum_paid_price was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's pricing_model was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's flagship_input_price was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's flagship_output_price was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's budget_input_price was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's prompt_caching was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's gpu_hourly_price was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's max_vram was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's rate_limits was verified 48 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's context_window was verified 47 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's max_output_tokens was verified 47 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's free_tier was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's regions was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's free_offer_type was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's soc2 was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's iso27001 was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's hipaa_eligible was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's gdpr_data_residency was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's pci_dss was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's encryption_at_rest was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's customer_managed_keys was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's rbac was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's private_networking was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's dedicated_infrastructure was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's uptime_sla was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Baseten's support_included was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's pricing_model was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's batch_discount was verified 49 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's startup_credit_program was verified 44 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's free_tier was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's regions was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's rate_limits was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's free_offer_type was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's soc2 was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's iso27001 was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's hipaa_eligible was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's gdpr_data_residency was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's encryption_at_rest was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's customer_managed_keys was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's rbac was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's private_networking was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's dedicated_infrastructure was verified 42 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's flagship_input_price was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's flagship_output_price was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's budget_input_price was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's context_window was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's max_output_tokens was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.
— Anthropic's prompt_caching was verified 41 days ago; the limit for this fact is 30.

The short answer

Choose Baseten if…

Teams that want per-token APIs and dedicated GPUs from one vendor with no plan fee — minute-granularity billing means a model that runs for ten minutes costs ten minutes.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Anthropic if…

Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

Baseten: Its dedicated H100 works out at $6.50 an hour, roughly three times DeepInfra's, so steady GPU workloads pay a premium for the platform around them.
Anthropic: Its cheapest model is $1 per million input tokens, several times what the budget tiers at Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek charge, so high-volume simple work is priced against you.

17 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

Criterion	Baseten	Anthropic
Pricing
Free tier	No — New workspaces get starting credits for testing; usage beyond them is billed per minute.	No
Kind of free offer	Free credit	Free credit
Pricing model	No platform fee: per-token Model APIs for open models, and dedicated deployments billed per minute of compute with volume discounts. The Pro tier buys priority access to high-demand GPUs rather than a lower rate.	Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium.
Infrastructure
Regions	Two Baseten regions selectable for regional deployments: us (United States) and eu (European Union); other regions by request to support. GPU model deployments only; Chains, training jobs and shared CPU types cannot select a region.	Two inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only.
Inference
Input price, top model	$1.40 per million input tokens for GLM-5.3, with cached input at $0.14 and output at $4.40. GLM-5.2 Fast, a speed variant, is $2.10.	$10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model.
Output price, top model	$4.40 per million output tokens for GLM-5.3.	$50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1.
Input price, cheapest model	$0.10 per million input tokens for GPT OSS 120B, with output at $0.50. GLM-5.3-Flash is $0.15 in and $0.50 out.	$1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.
Context window	1,048K tokens on the DeepSeek V4 line and the GLM 5.2/5.3 family, the widest it serves; 262K on the Kimi K2 models, 200K on GLM 4.7 and 128K on GPT OSS 120B. Baseten's table publishes these in thousands, so the magnitude is 1,048,000 rather than the 1,048,576 a power-of-two reading would give — the vendor's own figure, not a conversion of it.	1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
Max output tokens	262K tokens on most models, and it is a separate ceiling from the context window rather than the remainder of it: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 allows 384K output inside a 1,048K window, while GLM 4.7, Nemotron Ultra and GPT OSS 120B cap output at their full context. The Inkling models are the outlier at 32K.	128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
Prompt caching	Supported	Supported — Priced separately: 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes, with cheaper cache hits and refreshes.
Rate limits	Two limits, requests and tokens per minute, set by account status rather than spend: an unverified Basic account gets 15 RPM and 100,000 TPM, a verified Basic or Pro account 120 RPM and 500,000 TPM, Enterprise custom. Cached input counts toward TPM at full weight even though it is billed cheaper.	Per-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap.
Compliance
SOC 2	Maintains SOC 2 Type II certification for the inference platform; policies and certifications are held in the Baseten Trust Center.	SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request.
ISO 27001	ISO 27001:2022 listed as a compliance program; an ISO 27001 certificate for Baseten Labs, Inc. is published in the Trust Center for request. Certificate is request-access in the Trust Center, not a public download.	ISO 27001:2022 certified, with an ISO 27001 Certificate (2025) and an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certificate listed in the Trust Center.
HIPAA	Maintains HIPAA compliance alongside SOC 2 Type II for model inference on the Baseten platform.	HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered.
GDPR / data residency	Baseten Cloud supports a GDPR compliance program; residency is set with regional environments or a region on a single deployment.	Inference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option.
Encryption at rest	Trust Center control: datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest, and transmission over public networks is encrypted.	Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it.
Customer-managed keys	Runtime OIDC BYOK recipes: a model fetches customer-managed keys at runtime to decrypt encrypted weights and to decrypt requests and encrypt responses. Documented under runtime OIDC use cases, implemented in model code via the truss-examples envelope-encryption recipes.	Optional CMEK using a key in your own AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS or Azure Key Vault; US regions only, permanent once enabled, activated by the account team.
Role-based access control	Role-based access control with three organization roles - Admin, Member and Viewer - in a single-team organization.	Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles.
Private networking / VPC	Single-tenant Enterprise environments expose endpoints via AWS PrivateLink or Google Cloud Private Service Connect, off the public internet.	AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint. Claude Platform on AWS; the statement does not extend to the first-party api.anthropic.com endpoint.
Dedicated infrastructure	Single-tenant runs workloads in an isolated VPC in Baseten Cloud with compute restricted to your organization; Enterprise, custom pricing.	Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Pricing model

Baseten: No platform fee: per-token Model APIs for open models, and dedicated deployments billed per minute of compute with volume discounts. The Pro tier buys priority access to high-demand GPUs rather than a lower rate.
Anthropic: Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium.

Sources (2) →

Pricing — Baseten ↗
“$0 per month, pay as you go [...] Only pay for the compute you use, down to the minute. Volume discounts available [...] Pro Unlimited autoscaling and priority compute access [...] Priority access to high-demand GPUs”
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Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“This page provides detailed pricing information for Anthropic's models and features. All prices are in USD. [...] These multipliers stack with other pricing modifiers, including the Batch API discount and data residency. [...] specifying US-only inference through the inference_geo parameter incurs a 1.1x multiplier on all token pricing categories”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Baseten

Two Baseten regions selectable for regional deployments: us (United States) and eu (European Union); other regions by request to support. GPU model deployments only; Chains, training jobs and shared CPU types cannot select a region.

Anthropic

Two inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only.

Sources (2) →

Regional deployments - Baseten ↗
“The following regions are available for regional deployments. [...] us United States eu European Union”
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Data residency - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Default. Inference may run in any available geography for optimal performance and availability. [...] Inference runs only in US-based infrastructure. [...] is the only available workspace geo.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Input price, top model

Baseten: $1.40 per million input tokens for GLM-5.3, with cached input at $0.14 and output at $4.40. GLM-5.2 Fast, a speed variant, is $2.10.
Anthropic: $10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model.

Sources (2) →

Pricing — Baseten ↗
“GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3 $1.40 $1.40 $0.14 $0.14 $4.40 [...] GLM-5.2 Fast GLM-5.2 Fast $2.10 $2.10 $0.21”
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Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Model Base input tokens 5m cache writes 1h cache writes Cache hits and refreshes Output tokens Claude Fable 5.1 $10 / MTok $12.50 / MTok $20 / MTok $0.25 / MTok 1 $50 / MTok”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Output price, top model

Baseten: $4.40 per million output tokens for GLM-5.3.
Anthropic: $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1.

Sources (2) →

Pricing — Baseten ↗
“GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3 $1.40 $1.40 $0.14 $0.14 $4.40”
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Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Model Base input tokens 5m cache writes 1h cache writes Cache hits and refreshes Output tokens Claude Fable 5.1 $10 / MTok $12.50 / MTok $20 / MTok $0.25 / MTok 1 $50 / MTok”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Input price, cheapest model

Baseten: $0.10 per million input tokens for GPT OSS 120B, with output at $0.50. GLM-5.3-Flash is $0.15 in and $0.50 out.
Anthropic: $1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.

Sources (2) →

Pricing — Baseten ↗
“GPT OSS 120B GPT OSS 120B $0.10 $0.10 - - $0.50 [...] GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5.3-Flash $0.15 $0.15 $0.03 $0.03 $0.50”
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Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Claude Haiku 4.5 $1 / MTok $1.25 / MTok $2 / MTok $0.10 / MTok $5 / MTok”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

Context window

Baseten

1,048K tokens on the DeepSeek V4 line and the GLM 5.2/5.3 family, the widest it serves; 262K on the Kimi K2 models, 200K on GLM 4.7 and 128K on GPT OSS 120B. Baseten's table publishes these in thousands, so the magnitude is 1,048,000 rather than the 1,048,576 a power-of-two reading would give — the vendor's own figure, not a conversion of it.

Anthropic

1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5.

Sources (2) →

Model APIs overview — Baseten Docs ↗
“SupportedModelsTable [...] model: "DeepSeek V4 Pro", context: 1048, maxOutput: 262 [...] model: "GLM 5.3", context: 1048, maxOutput: 262 [...] model: "GLM 4.7", context: 200, maxOutput: 200 [...] model: "OpenAI GPT 120B", context: 128, maxOutput: 128”
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Models overview — Claude Docs ↗
“Context window 1M tokens 1M tokens 1M tokens 200K tokens Max output 128K tokens 128K tokens 128K tokens 64K tokens”
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Max output tokens

Baseten

262K tokens on most models, and it is a separate ceiling from the context window rather than the remainder of it: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 allows 384K output inside a 1,048K window, while GLM 4.7, Nemotron Ultra and GPT OSS 120B cap output at their full context. The Inkling models are the outlier at 32K.

Anthropic

128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5.

Sources (2) →

Model APIs overview — Baseten Docs ↗
“SupportedModelsTable [...] model: "DeepSeek V4 Pro", context: 1048, maxOutput: 262 [...] model: "GLM 5.3", context: 1048, maxOutput: 262 [...] model: "GLM 4.7", context: 200, maxOutput: 200 [...] model: "OpenAI GPT 120B", context: 128, maxOutput: 128”
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Models overview — Claude Docs ↗
“Context window 1M tokens 1M tokens 1M tokens 200K tokens Max output 128K tokens 128K tokens 128K tokens 64K tokens”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction

Rate limits

Baseten: Two limits, requests and tokens per minute, set by account status rather than spend: an unverified Basic account gets 15 RPM and 100,000 TPM, a verified Basic or Pro account 120 RPM and 500,000 TPM, Enterprise custom. Cached input counts toward TPM at full weight even though it is billed cheaper.
Anthropic: Per-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap.

Sources (2) →

Pricing and limits — Baseten Docs ↗
“Basic (unverified) | 15 | 100,000 | Basic (verified) | 120 | 500,000 | Pro | 120 | 500,000 [...] Cached and uncached input tokens count equally toward this limit, even though cached tokens cost less.”
Read 2026-09-07 · official docs · Report a correction
Rate limits - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“The rate limits for the Messages API are measured in requests per minute (RPM), input tokens per minute (ITPM), and output tokens per minute (OTPM) for each model class. [...] Claude Opus 5 1,000 2,000,000 400,000 [...] Usage tier Monthly spend cap Start $500 USD Build $1,000 USD Scale $200,000 USD”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

SOC 2

Baseten: Maintains SOC 2 Type II certification for the inference platform; policies and certifications are held in the Baseten Trust Center.
Anthropic: SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request.

Sources (2) →

Secure model inference - Baseten ↗
“Baseten maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and HIPAA compliance.”
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Anthropic Trust Center ↗
“Compliance HIPAA SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001:2022 ISO/IEC 42001:2023 FedRAMP High UK Cyber Essentials [...] [Anthropic] 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 Report.pdf”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

ISO 27001

Baseten: ISO 27001:2022 listed as a compliance program; an ISO 27001 certificate for Baseten Labs, Inc. is published in the Trust Center for request. Certificate is request-access in the Trust Center, not a public download.
Anthropic: ISO 27001:2022 certified, with an ISO 27001 Certificate (2025) and an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certificate listed in the Trust Center.

Sources (2) →

Baseten Trust Center ↗
“Compliance SOC 2 ISO 27001:2022 HIPAA [...] Baseten Labs, Inc. ISO 27001 Certificate.pdf”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Anthropic Trust Center ↗
“Compliance HIPAA SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001:2022 ISO/IEC 42001:2023 [...] [Anthropic] ISO 27001 Certificate (2025).pdf”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

HIPAA

Baseten: Maintains HIPAA compliance alongside SOC 2 Type II for model inference on the Baseten platform.
Anthropic: HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered.

Sources (2) →

Secure model inference - Baseten ↗
“Baseten maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and HIPAA compliance.”
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API and data retention - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“The Claude API supports HIPAA-ready integrations for organizations that handle protected health information (PHI). With a signed BAA and a HIPAA-enabled organization, you can use supported API features to process PHI [...] Claude Code: Claude Code is not covered under HIPAA readiness. [...] Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry: HIPAA readiness is not available on these platforms.”
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GDPR / data residency

Baseten: Baseten Cloud supports a GDPR compliance program; residency is set with regional environments or a region on a single deployment.
Anthropic: Inference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option.

Sources (2) →

Baseten Cloud - Baseten ↗
“Baseten Cloud supports SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance programs. [...] to constrain workloads and inference traffic to specific regions”
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Data residency - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“inference geo: controls where model inference runs, on a per-request basis [...] Workspace geo is set when you create a workspace and can [...] is the only available workspace geo.”
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Encryption at rest

Baseten: Trust Center control: datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest, and transmission over public networks is encrypted.
Anthropic: Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it.

Sources (2) →

Baseten Trust Center - Controls ↗
“The company's datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest. [...] The company uses secure data transmission protocols to encrypt confidential and sensitive data when transmitted over public networks.”
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Customer-managed encryption keys - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“have Anthropic use it to encrypt certain workspace data at rest [...] Eligible organizations can opt in to use customer-managed encryption keys instead of the default encryption that Anthropic provides.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Customer-managed keys

Baseten: Runtime OIDC BYOK recipes: a model fetches customer-managed keys at runtime to decrypt encrypted weights and to decrypt requests and encrypt responses. Documented under runtime OIDC use cases, implemented in model code via the truss-examples envelope-encryption recipes.
Anthropic: Optional CMEK using a key in your own AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS or Azure Key Vault; US regions only, permanent once enabled, activated by the account team.

Sources (2) →

OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication - Baseten ↗
“Keep model weights encrypted in object storage and use runtime OIDC to retrieve the key material needed to decrypt them when the model starts. [...] Use runtime OIDC to retrieve customer-managed keys, then decrypt requests and encrypt responses during inference.”
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Customer-managed encryption keys - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“A customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) lets you provision an encryption key in your own AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS, or Azure Key Vault [...] CMEK is currently available in US regions only, and all encryption operations are processed in US regions. [...] To activate CMEK, contact your Anthropic account team.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Role-based access control

Baseten: Role-based access control with three organization roles - Admin, Member and Viewer - in a single-team organization.
Anthropic: Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles.

Sources (2) →

Access control - Baseten ↗
“Baseten uses role-based access control (RBAC) to manage organization access. [...] In organizations that use a single team, every organization member has one of three roles.”
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User management - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Groups connect members to custom roles (role-based access control, the RBAC in the endpoint paths and scope names) [...] Every member has exactly one organization role. Reads return the member”
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Private networking / VPC

Baseten: Single-tenant Enterprise environments expose endpoints via AWS PrivateLink or Google Cloud Private Service Connect, off the public internet.
Anthropic: AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint. Claude Platform on AWS; the statement does not extend to the first-party api.anthropic.com endpoint.

Sources (2) →

Single-tenant - Baseten ↗
“Inference requests route directly from your application to your dedicated environment and can remain off the public internet. [...] such as AWS PrivateLink or Google Cloud Private Service Connect”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Claude Platform on AWS - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint.”
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Dedicated infrastructure

Baseten: Single-tenant runs workloads in an isolated VPC in Baseten Cloud with compute restricted to your organization; Enterprise, custom pricing.
Anthropic: Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales.

Sources (2) →

Single-tenant - Baseten ↗
“Single-tenant runs your inference workloads in an isolated VPC in Baseten Cloud. [...] Compute and scheduling are restricted to your organization. [...] Single-tenant is available with custom pricing on the Enterprise plan.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Service tiers - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer available for purchase. Organizations with an existing commitment can continue to use Priority Tier through their contract end date”
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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Entry paid planBaseten: $0 per month on the Basic plan — pay as you go, with dedicated deployments, model APIs and training included rather than gated behind a fee.

Startup credit programAnthropic: Claude for Startups: free credits and priority rate limits, amount undisclosed until application. Open to any early-stage founder with or without VC backing per the FAQ, though the main eligibility list also requires equity funding, founding within the last 4 years, and no prior Anthropic startup credits.

Uptime SLABaseten: Custom SLAs on Enterprise. No percentage is published on the pricing page.

Batch discountAnthropic: 50% off both input and output tokens through the Batch API, for asynchronous processing.

H100 SXM, per GPU-hourBaseten: $6.50 per hour for a dedicated H100 80GB. Baseten publishes $0.10833 per MINUTE — the hourly figure is that times 60, ours rather than Baseten's, and the page offers an hourly toggle. A100 80GB is $0.06667 a minute and B200 $0.16633.

Largest GPU offeredBaseten: 180GB per GPU on a B200, at $0.16633 per minute — $9.98 an hour.

Support on entry paid planBaseten: Email and in-app chat support on Basic, which is pay-as-you-go from $0. Pro adds dedicated support on Slack and Zoom.

PCI DSSBaseten: PCI DSS - SAQ D listed as a compliance program; a PCI-DSS v4.0.1 AOC for SAQ D Service Provider is published in the Trust Center for request. SAQ D self-assessment AOC, not a QSA Report on Compliance.

04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Should I choose Baseten or Anthropic?

Pick Baseten if Teams that want per-token APIs and dedicated GPUs from one vendor with no plan fee — minute-granularity billing means a model that runs for ten minutes costs ten minutes.

Pick Anthropic if Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.

Provider pages

BasetenModel inference platform with per-token APIs for open models and dedicated deployments billed by the minute.AnthropicHosted inference for the Claude model family, sold per million tokens with prompt caching and a batch tier.

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Baseten vs Anthropic

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Where they differ.

Pricing model

Regions

Input price, top model

Output price, top model

Input price, cheapest model

Context window

Max output tokens

Rate limits

SOC 2

ISO 27001

HIPAA

GDPR / data residency

Encryption at rest

Customer-managed keys

Role-based access control

Private networking / VPC

Dedicated infrastructure

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