Baseten Model APIs

LLM 6.7/10

Open models (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen) billed per million tokens with cached-input discounts; deploy behind dedicated endpoints in seconds

Baseten Model APIs scores 6.7/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Paid — Pay-per-million-tokens. Open models (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen) billed per million tokens with cached-input discounts; deploy behind dedicated endpoints in seconds.

Category LLM Kind Paid plan

Free value score

6.7 / 10

Show the math

Model Quality 8/10

value = 44 artificial_analysis_score

weighted score = 0.2 * 8/10

Access 10/10

value = 10/10

weighted score = 0.1 * 10/10

Price Efficiency 5.8/10

value = 2380952 tok/$

weighted score = 0.7 * 5.8/10

Key metrics

DeepSeek 44 Best model

$0.42/M Price

What you get

Paid — Pay-per-million-tokens. Open models (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen) billed per million tokens with cached-input discounts; deploy behind dedicated endpoints in seconds

Per-token open-model rates competitive with DeepInfra/Together; cached input cheaper

Sources

"Model APIs bill per million tokens. For current per-model rates, see the Model APIs pricing page. Cached input tokens are prompt tokens served from the KV cache"
https://docs.baseten.co/inference/model-apis/overview
"Baseten (FP8) is listed at $0.42 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek V3.1 (blended price)."
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3-1/providers
"In reasoning mode, DeepSeek V3.2 scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepseek-v32-2-most-intelligent-open-weights-model-qnwoc

paid value llm-providers

Open service ← All LLM