BASETEN ALTERNATIVE
Like Baseten, with models built in.
Call models that are already deployed through an OpenAI-compatible API, or start a GPU instance and serve your own. No deployment framework to learn.
Hand this to your agent
Add a Runcrate model to this project: run curl -fsSL"https://runcrate.ai/agents.md?intent=build"and follow it.
Your agent asks for an API key. Create a key
Comparison
Runcrate and Baseten, side by side.
| Feature | Runcrate | Baseten |
|---|---|---|
| Deployed model catalog | Open models | Model APIs plus bring-your-own |
| Custom model deployment | Your own GPU instance (Inference crate) | Truss framework |
| OpenAI-compatible API | Yes | Custom Baseten endpoints |
| Inference billing | Per token, image or second | Listed on their pricing page |
Prices
What it costs on Runcrate. Billed prices, as charged.
| Name | Maker | Price | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.273 in, $0.399 out per 1M tokens | Reasoning, code, 128K ctx |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro | DeepSeek | $1.37 in, $2.73 out per 1M tokens | Reasoning and code, 1M ctx |
| meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct | Meta | $0.105 in, $0.315 out per 1M tokens | Open weights, multilingual |
| Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 | Alibaba | $0.0945 in, $0.578 out per 1M tokens | Multilingual, 256K ctx |
| openai/whisper-large-v3 | OpenAI | $0.000473 per minute | Speech to text, 99 languages |
Why switch
Why teams move to Runcrate. One account for models and GPUs.
Open models, one API key
Chat, code, image, video, audio and vision models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed per token, per image or per second of output.
OpenAI-compatible
Point the OpenAI SDK at api.runcrate.ai/v1 and the requests your agent already makes keep working. No custom client library.
GPUs on the same account
When an API call is not enough, start an H100 or H200 instance from the same balance and dashboard. Launch 8 or more GPUs yourself, or ask us for a custom quote.
One balance, billed as used
Inference bills each request at its listed price. Instances bill by the second on most GPUs and by the minute on a few. No minimums, no contract.
Get started
Try it in one request.
Your agent writes and runs it. The same key works for every model and every GPU.
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