Inference.net
eDR96Effective DR: 96/100. Top 25%. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 68.Agent68Agent Readiness: 68/100. Top 25%. Measured by StartupHub.ai. Median 41.AI platform for building and deploying custom AI models with ease, offering full-stack LLM lifecycle management and optimized inference infrastructure.
About
Inference.net provides a full-stack LLM lifecycle platform that enables companies to deploy, observe, evaluate, and train AI models. Their turn-key infrastructure and SDK allow businesses to launch AI fast, monitor production models with continuous benchmarking, trace agent actions, and custom train models. The platform aims to make deploying large language models fast, affordable, and developer-friendly by aggregating underutilized compute capacity across data centers.
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Inference.net competes with Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning by offering a platform for deploying, observing, evaluating, and training AI models.
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Inference.net competes with Google Cloud AI Platform by providing infrastructure for running and optimizing production AI workloads.
Competing product: Google Cloud AI Platform
Inference.net competes with Amazon SageMaker by offering a full-stack LLM lifecycle platform for deploying and managing AI models.
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Key facts
- Website
- inference.net
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2023
- Total funding
- $14M (Seed)
- Business model
- B2B
Inference.net pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Pay as you go1M Gateway requests per month, 1M Tracing spans per month, 14-day data retention | $0 / month |
| Growth$50 one-time opening credit, 50M Gateway requests per month, 50M Tracing spans per month | $250 / month |
| EnterpriseCustom contracts and committed-use pricing, Dedicated infrastructure and deployment limits, Direct support channel | Contact sales |
Every plan includes monthly credits for fine-tuning, evals, gateway routing and observability. Pay as you go is $0 plus usage. Dedicated model instances available at $9.98 per hour for B200 180 GiB VRAM.
Plans as published by Inference.net, checked September 2026. Current prices on inference.net
Funding rounds
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2024 | Seed | $12M | Gradient Ventures |
| 11 Mar 2024 | Undisclosed round | $2M | Coatue |
Tech stack
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- Compliance
- SOC 2
- Frontend
- Tailwind CSS, Next.js, React, TypeScript
- Backend
- Python
- CDN
- Cloudflare
- Email provider
- Google Workspace
- Hiring platform
- Ashby
- DevOps
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
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Is Inference.net trustworthy and reputable?
StartupHub's Data Trust & Reputation score for Inference.net is 88 out of 100, a trusted rating, based on site security posture, privacy practices, malware and phishing checks, and public reputation signals.
How much funding has Inference.net raised?
Inference.net has raised a total of $14M in funding. The most recent round on record is Seed.
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