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Fireworks AI
situationalFast inference platform for open models — serverless and on-demand GPUs.
journal entry · observed by @whysanesanders · verified 2026-08-15
Genuinely fast, and the compound-AI tooling (function calling, multi-modal) is well done. But it competes with Together and Groq on the same models — pick whoever serves your model cheapest this quarter.
Known limitations
- Differentiation vs Together/Groq unclear for standard inference.
- Enterprise pricing opaque.
- Smaller free tier than rivals.
Facts
- pricing
- freemium
- price note
- free credits; pay-per-token from ~$0.10/1M (small models)
- free tier
- yes
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- dev-infra
Receipts
Same sector — dev-infra
Groq
Ultra-fast inference on custom LPU hardware — open models at 500+ tok/s.
dev-infra
freemium · free tier; from $0.05/1M tokens (small models)
APIFREE TIER
Hugging Face
The GitHub of AI — models, datasets, Spaces and inference endpoints.
dev-infra
freemium · free; PRO $9/mo; inference pay-as-you-go
APIFREE TIER
OpenRouterfeatured
One API for every major model — unified billing, fallbacks and routing.
dev-infra
freemium · pay-per-token pass-through plus a small fee
APIFREE TIER