Baseten vs Novita AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Baseten is cheaper on 2 of 10 shared models (input or output price), Novita AI on 3.
Baseten
Production inference platform with Truss packaging, optimized serving engines and enterprise-grade autoscaling. Strong for teams shipping custom models with SLAs.
- Optimized model serving (TensorRT-LLM)
- Enterprise autoscaling and observability
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-28 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Baseten in/out | Novita AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.100 / $0.500 | $0.050 / $0.250 | Novita AI |
| MiniMax M2.5 | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.500 / $1.50 | $0.270 / $1.00 | Novita AI |
| GLM-4.7 | $0.600 / $2.20 | $0.600 / $2.20 | tie |
| Kimi K2 | $0.600 / $2.50 | $0.600 / $2.50 | tie |
| Kimi K2.5 | $0.600 / $3.00 | $0.600 / $3.00 | tie |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | $0.600 / $2.50 | $0.600 / $2.50 | tie |
| GLM-4.6 | $0.600 / $2.20 | $0.550 / $2.20 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.770 / $0.770 | $0.890 / $0.890 | Baseten |
| GLM-5 | $0.950 / $3.15 | $1.00 / $3.20 | Baseten |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.