# Novita AI

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Novita AI and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Novita as a cheap, fast, hosted API for open-weight models, with strict data retention and good cache hit rates. Critics say it serves quantized versions and doesn't test its models carefully.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheap compared to other providers (3 comments): "They are incredibly price competitive, have strict data retention policies, and in general are quite fast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338579)) "You can pay the same $10 on Novita or with any other provider." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697804)) "offer the exact same service for significantly less" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50099473))

## What people warn about

- Serves quantized model versions (1 comments): "their main gig is serving quantized versions of the model to offer it for cheaper / at better latency" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684187))
- Models not carefully tested (1 comments): "they clearly don't spend much time on actually testing and configuring all of the models they provide" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694131))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Fireworks AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fireworks.md): 67 recommend
- [Cloudflare Workers AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-workers-ai.md): 7 recommend
- [Chutes AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chutes.md): 6 recommend
- [Telnyx Inference API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/telnyx-inference-api.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://novita.ai/)

## Cite as

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