Baseten vs Novita AI
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Baseten and Novita AI built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
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 Novita AI if…
Breadth — 200+ models under one API with a cache-read rate published next to most of them, and an H100 SXM at $3.39 an hour if the same vendor should run the dedicated side too.
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.
- Novita AI: It is rarely the cheapest for any given model: DeepInfra serves DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at $0.06 against Novita's $0.44, and its H100 is $2.20 against Novita's $3.39 on demand.
20 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Baseten 0
Novita AI 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Baseten | Novita AI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | No — New workspaces get starting credits for testing; usage beyond them is billed per minute. | Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token. |
| Kind of free offer | Free credit | Free tier |
| Entry paid plan | $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. | No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10. |
| 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-token serverless inference with a cache-read rate published beside most models, and GPU instances offered at both on-demand and spot rates — the spot column is roughly half. Two models, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin and Sante, are listed at no charge on both input and output. |
| 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. | GPU cloud page advertises 14 global regions in its feature list and, lower on the same page, 20+ locations across 4+ continents. |
| 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. | $2.00 per million input tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the most expensive model in its catalogue, with cache reads at $0.25 and output at $6.00. |
| Output price, top model | $4.40 per million output tokens for GLM-5.3. | $6.00 per million output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max. |
| 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. | $0.075 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash at short context, rising to $0.15 above the threshold, with cache reads at $0.015 and output at $0.25. Fireworks serves the same model at $0.15. |
| 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 the DeepSeek V4 line and GLM 5.3, published as "1M" rather than an exact figure — so it is recorded at 1,000,000 and may in practice be the 1,048,576 other providers state. Qwen3.8 is listed at 977K. |
| 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 (131,072) maximum output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the highest-priced model in the catalogue, against a 977K context. |
| Prompt caching | Supported | Supported |
| 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-model RPM and TPM ceilings set by account tier T1–T5, where tier follows monthly top-ups: T1 up to $50 a month, T5 at least $10,000 in one of the last three months. |
| GPU | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $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. | $3.39 per GPU-hour for an on-demand H100 SXM 80GB, or $1.70 spot. |
| Largest GPU offered | 180GB per GPU on a B200, at $0.16633 per minute — $9.98 an hour. | 80GB per GPU on an H100 SXM, the largest card it lists; below it are an L40S 48GB, RTX 5090 32GB and RTX 4090 24GB. |
| 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 audit report is available under NDA to enterprise customers on request through the Trust Center. |
| HIPAA | Maintains HIPAA compliance alongside SOC 2 Type II for model inference on the Baseten platform. | Not by default configured to comply with HIPAA, FISMA or GLBA; the Terms of Service direct affected users to contact support for enterprise arrangements. Terms of Use section 1, page updated August 5, 2026. |
| GDPR / data residency | Baseten Cloud supports a GDPR compliance program; residency is set with regional environments or a region on a single deployment. | GDPR compliance claimed; EU/EEA transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (Module 2), UK transfers on the IDTA or UK Addendum. |
| Encryption at rest | Trust Center control: datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest, and transmission over public networks is encrypted. | AES-256 for data at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit between customers, Novita and its service providers. |
| Role-based access control | Role-based access control with three organization roles - Admin, Member and Viewer - in a single-team organization. | Team accounts define five roles — Owner, Admin, Developer, Basic and Billing — each with read/write or view-only rights over all or only self-created resources. |
| Private networking / VPC | Single-tenant Enterprise environments expose endpoints via AWS PrivateLink or Google Cloud Private Service Connect, off the public internet. | Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway, listed as a GPU cloud platform feature. |
| Dedicated infrastructure | Single-tenant runs workloads in an isolated VPC in Baseten Cloud with compute restricted to your organization; Enterprise, custom pricing. | Deployments give a dedicated inference endpoint on exclusive GPUs, unlike serverless endpoints that share compute with other users. |
Where they differ.
Free tier
- Baseten
- No — New workspaces get starting credits for testing; usage beyond them is billed per minute.
- Novita AI
- Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Billing and usage - Baseten ↗
“Baseten doesn’t offer a separate free tier or perpetual free plan. [...] New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment.”
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- Pricing | Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash VL 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free”
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Kind of free offer
- Baseten
- Free credit
- Novita AI
- Free tier
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Billing and usage - Baseten ↗
“Baseten doesn’t offer a separate free tier or perpetual free plan. [...] New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment.”
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- Pricing | Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash VL 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free”
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Entry paid plan
- Baseten
- $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.
- Novita AI
- No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Baseten ↗
“Baseten $0 per month, pay as you go Get started [...] Included in Basic: Dedicated deployments Model APIs Training Fast cold starts SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant”
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- Payment Methods — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“You can manually top up a specified amount of credit, which must be greater than $10.”
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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.
- Novita AI
- Per-token serverless inference with a cache-read rate published beside most models, and GPU instances offered at both on-demand and spot rates — the spot column is roughly half. Two models, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin and Sante, are listed at no charge on both input and output.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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 — Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free [...] On-Demand SPOT”
Read 2026-09-07 · 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.
- Novita AI
- GPU cloud page advertises 14 global regions in its feature list and, lower on the same page, 20+ locations across 4+ continents.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Regional deployments - Baseten ↗
“The following regions are available for regional deployments. [...] us United States eu European Union”
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- GPU Cloud - High-Performance GPUs for AI | Novita AI ↗
“14 global regions Low-latency backbone with private peering. [...] 20+ locations 4+ continents”
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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.
- Novita AI
- $2.00 per million input tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the most expensive model in its catalogue, with cache reads at $0.25 and output at $6.00.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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 — Novita AI ↗
“Qwen3.8 Max 977K $2 /Mt · Cache Read $0.25 /Mt $6 /Mt”
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Output price, top model
- Baseten
- $4.40 per million output tokens for GLM-5.3.
- Novita AI
- $6.00 per million output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Baseten ↗
“GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3 $1.40 $1.40 $0.14 $0.14 $4.40”
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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“Qwen3.8 Max 977K $2 /Mt · Cache Read $0.25 /Mt $6 /Mt”
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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.
- Novita AI
- $0.075 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash at short context, rising to $0.15 above the threshold, with cache reads at $0.015 and output at $0.25. Fireworks serves the same model at $0.15.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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 — Novita AI ↗
“GLM 5.3 Flash 1M $0.075 /Mt · Cache Read $0.015 /Mt $0.15 /Mt · Cache Read $0.03 /Mt $0.25 /Mt $0.5 /Mt”
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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 the DeepSeek V4 line and GLM 5.3, published as "1M" rather than an exact figure — so it is recorded at 1,000,000 and may in practice be the 1,048,576 other providers state. Qwen3.8 is listed at 977K.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 1M [...] GLM 5.3 1M [...] Qwen3.8 Max 977K”
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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.
- Novita AI
- 128K (131,072) maximum output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the highest-priced model in the catalogue, against a 977K context.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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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- Qwen3.8 Max API & Playground | Novita AI ↗
“Context Length 977K Max Output 128K”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · 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.
- Novita AI
- Per-model RPM and TPM ceilings set by account tier T1–T5, where tier follows monthly top-ups: T1 up to $50 a month, T5 at least $10,000 in one of the last three months.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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.”
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- Rate limits — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Each account has a default rate limit for model calls, measured in RPM (requests per model per minute) and TPM (tokens per model per minute). [...] T1 Monthly top-ups did not exceed $50 in any of the last 3 calendar months. [...] T5 Monthly top-ups were at least $10,000 in at least one of the last 3 calendar months.”
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H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Baseten
- $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.
- Novita AI
- $3.39 per GPU-hour for an on-demand H100 SXM 80GB, or $1.70 spot.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Baseten ↗
“Dedicated Deployments Only pay for the compute you use, down to the minute. [...] Price per Minute Hour [...] A100 80 GiB VRAM $0.06667 [...] H100 80 GiB VRAM $0.10833 [...] B200 180 GiB VRAM $0.16633”
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- Novita AI GPU Cloud ↗
“On-Demand SPOT H100 SXM 80GB 80 GB VRAM 3.39/hr/GPU 1.70/hr/GPU RTX 4090 24GB 24 GB VRAM 0.33/hr/GPU 0.17/hr/GPU”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Largest GPU offered
180GB per GPU on a B200, at $0.16633 per minute — $9.98 an hour.
80GB per GPU on an H100 SXM, the largest card it lists; below it are an L40S 48GB, RTX 5090 32GB and RTX 4090 24GB.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Baseten ↗
“B200 180 GiB VRAM $0.16633 Deploy”
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- GPU Instance — Novita AI ↗
“H100 SXM 80GB 80 GB VRAM 3.39/hr/GPU 1.70/hr/GPU [...] NVIDIA L40S 48GB 48 GB VRAM 0.55/hr/GPU”
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SOC 2
- Baseten
- Maintains SOC 2 Type II certification for the inference platform; policies and certifications are held in the Baseten Trust Center.
- Novita AI
- SOC 2 Type II; the audit report is available under NDA to enterprise customers on request through the Trust Center.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Secure model inference - Baseten ↗
“Baseten maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and HIPAA compliance.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“SOC 2 Type II: Available under NDA for enterprise customers [...] Detailed audit reports are available under NDA to enterprise customers upon request.”
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.
- Novita AI
- Not by default configured to comply with HIPAA, FISMA or GLBA; the Terms of Service direct affected users to contact support for enterprise arrangements. Terms of Use section 1, page updated August 5, 2026.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Secure model inference - Baseten ↗
“Baseten maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and HIPAA compliance.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Novita AI Terms of Service ↗
“The Site is not by default configured to comply with certain industry-specific regulations (including HIPAA, FISMA, and GLBA). If your use of the Site or Marketplace Offerings is subject to such laws, please contact us at support@novita.ai to discuss enterprise compliance arrangements before proceeding.”
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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.
- Novita AI
- GDPR compliance claimed; EU/EEA transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (Module 2), UK transfers on the IDTA or UK Addendum.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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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- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“GDPR Compliance: Aligned with EU requirements [...] Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) — European Commission Decision 2021/914 (Module 2: Controller-to-Processor), as appropriate to your deployment model”
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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.
- Novita AI
- AES-256 for data at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit between customers, Novita and its service providers.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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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- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“Data at rest: AES-256 encryption for stored data [...] Data in transit: TLS 1.2+ encryption between you and our services, and between us and our service providers”
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Role-based access control
- Baseten
- Role-based access control with three organization roles - Admin, Member and Viewer - in a single-team organization.
- Novita AI
- Team accounts define five roles — Owner, Admin, Developer, Basic and Billing — each with read/write or view-only rights over all or only self-created resources.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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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- Team — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Role is a set of permissions that define what actions a member can perform within a team. There are 5 roles in one team: [...] Action : Either Read/Write (create, update, delete, query) or View (query and list only). [...] Owner The highest level of permission. Manages the team, billing, and all resources. Each team has exactly one Owner.”
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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.
- Novita AI
- Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway, listed as a GPU cloud platform feature.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- GPU Cloud - High-Performance GPUs for AI | Novita AI ↗
“Private networking Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway.”
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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.
- Novita AI
- Deployments give a dedicated inference endpoint on exclusive GPUs, unlike serverless endpoints that share compute with other users.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Novita Deployments User Guide — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Unlike Serverless endpoints that share compute resources with other users, each Deployment gives you: [...] All compute resources are yours alone — no noisy neighbors”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
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.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Baseten or Novita AI?
Baseten: $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.
Novita AI: No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10.
Free tier: Baseten or Novita AI?
Baseten: No — New workspaces get starting credits for testing; usage beyond them is billed per minute.
Novita AI: Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token.
Should I choose Baseten or Novita AI?
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 Novita AI if Breadth — 200+ models under one API with a cache-read rate published next to most of them, and an H100 SXM at $3.39 an hour if the same vendor should run the dedicated side too.
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