# Baseten

15 Hacker News commenters recommended Baseten and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Hosted inference service for open-weight models, praised for fast throughput, low prices and responsive support. Critics point to weak security practices and poor handling of a security incident report.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast inference throughput and latency (3 comments): "Together.ai, Baseten, and others have already achieved higher throughput, lower latency, and lower E2E latency" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165101)) "There are other providers with much faster inference, like BaseTen at >100t/s" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480373)) "Currently Baseten has ~610ms TTFT and ~82 tk/s for Kimi K2.6" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871618))
- Responsive team and quick fixes (4 comments): "Good in terms of prompt communication and fix. Absurdly bad in terms of reward." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717156)) "kudos to the Baseten team for their super professional response" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721921)) "kudos to their team for the fast patch" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716477))
- Low price and transparent costs (2 comments): "You can use "API-style" pricing on these providers which is more transparent to costs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897507)) "open weight on a provider like BaseTen (solid performance, low price point)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682141))
- Reputable, provides real value (2 comments): "Reputable hosting providers, e.g. Fireworks, Cloudflare, Baseten, whatever absolutely _do_ have a reputation to lose." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274088)) "They've grown revenues at a solid clip, provide real value" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021421))

## What people warn about

- Weak security practices (2 comments): "An easily preventable issue with proper engineering culture around defense in depth and principle of least privilege" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717331)) "points to certain experience and expertise level for security practices" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716722))
- Poor handling of security report (2 comments): "I expect at least a preview of the report rather than being dumped on the signup page." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717283)) "they don't care about bug reports." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718375))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DeepInfra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepinfra.md): 36 recommend
- [Together AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/together-ai.md): 20 recommend
- [fal.ai](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fal-ai.md): 19 recommend
- [Neuralwatt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neuralwatt.md): 18 recommend
- [Replicate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/replicate.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.baseten.co/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Baseten", https://hackerapproved.com/p/baseten/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).