What's free
New accounts receive free credits; Baseten's current pricing page does not state the amount
- Credit card
- not confirmed
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
Model APIs default (models with combined token limits): Basic (unverified) 15 RPM / 100,000 TPM; Basic (verified) 120 RPM / 500,000 TPM; HTTP 429 when exceeded
The catch
Basic is $0/month, pay as you go. Current pricing confirms new-account credits but does not publish an amount or expiration date. Model APIs are priced per token; dedicated deployments are priced by compute time.
Free models: not listed yet.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://inference.baseten.co/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="<a-free-model>",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://inference.baseten.co/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"<a-free-model>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits, the catch
- 2026-08-05 Updated free tier, rate limits, the catch
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub