Baseten is listed under Model Hosting & Inference APIs, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Basic plan is pay-as-you-go with free starter credits for new accounts. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at baseten.co.
Baseten is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Baseten does 3 things the catalog singles out: Basic plan is pay-as-you-go with free starter credits for new accounts; deploys custom/fine-tuned models, not just a fixed model catalog, with per-second gpu billing; hosts current open models (deepseek, gpt-oss, kimi k3) as ready-to-call apis alongside custom deployment.
Cerebras Inference is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Model Hosting & Inference APIs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Cloudflare Workers AI, Fireworks AI and Google AI Studio also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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