What Inference does
Inference.net is inference infrastructure for AI native teams, covering hosting, monitoring, training and evaluation of open source, custom and fine tuned models. It is for teams that want to move from proprietary APIs to open source models. Deploy hosts catalog models such as GLM-5, Kimi K2.5 and GPT-OSS 120B or a team's own model. Observe and Trace capture LLM calls, tool calls and framework steps on any provider. Train turns production traces into fine tuning data, Evaluate benchmarks models against production traffic, and HALO is open source agent optimization. Pricing has a Pay as you go plan at $0 plus usage, Growth at $250 per month, and custom Enterprise terms.
How Inference compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Inference does. Only Comet ML lists a starting price, $19 a month. All 5 offer an API, as Inference does. Inference was founded in 2023; the alternatives were founded between 2012 and 2020, 5 of them earlier. Inference is based in San Francisco, United States; all the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too.