Adaptive Engine

Reinforcement fine-tuning, evaluation and inference for enterprise LLMs

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What is Adaptive Engine?

Adaptive Engine is an enterprise LLM platform that combines reinforcement fine-tuning, custom AI-judge evaluation and fast self-hosted inference, with deployment in your own cloud or on-premise.

Adaptive Engine is an enterprise platform for taking a large language model from a general purpose API call to a tuned, evaluated and self-hosted system that matches a specific business objective. The product is organised around three stages that feed into one another: Adapt, Evaluate and Serve. In the Adapt stage, teams run reinforcement fine-tuning with one-click PPO, GRPO or DPO, choosing between full model tuning and lighter adapter tuning. The pitch is direct: if a business can measure an outcome, the engine can be pointed at it, including metrics that come from production rather than from a static test set. Data does not have to be hand-labelled from scratch. The platform ships pre-built synthetic data recipes that let a team start from written guidelines, then layer in expert feedback and distill the behaviour of a larger model into a smaller one. Reasoning is handled with automated inference-time tuning and test-time search, so a model can be pushed to think longer on hard inputs. A metrics-logging API feeds production signals back into training, which is how the tuning loop keeps pace with changing operations. Teams that want control beyond the presets can write Python recipes and run custom jobs. Evaluation is treated as a first class step rather than an afterthought. Proprietary APIs and open models can be compared in a single view, scored by a customisable AI judge that supports built-in RAG evaluators and custom guidelines, then released through A/B tests against a subset of users. Granular monitoring, model interaction traces and custom dashboards cover the period after launch. On the serving side, a proprietary inference engine (described as up to 30 percent faster than vLLM, with prefix caching and quantization) runs alongside the ability to host hundreds of fine-tuned adapters on a shared model backbone. This is infrastructure for machine learning and platform teams at companies with proprietary data they cannot send to a public API. Deployment is offered on-premise or in a private cloud, with control over model updates. The main trade-off is scope: this is a heavy engineering product, not a prompt playground, and it assumes in-house ML capability and a defined metric to optimise.

How do you use Adaptive Engine?

  1. 1Book a demo and scope the objective
    The public entry point is a demo request. Come with the business metric you want the model to improve and the data sources that already measure it, since tuning is organised around that target.
    Adaptive Engine — Book a demo and scope the objective
  2. 2Choose the adapt stage workflow
    Inside the platform, pick reinforcement fine-tuning and select a method such as PPO, GRPO or DPO, then decide between tuning a full model or a lighter adapter.
  3. 3Seed training data with recipes
    Start from a pre-built synthetic data recipe driven by written guidelines, then augment it with expert feedback or distill behaviour from a larger model into a smaller one.
  4. 4Set up evaluation
    Compare candidate models in the centralised evaluation view, configure a custom AI judge against your own guidelines, and add RAG evaluators where retrieval quality matters.
    Adaptive Engine — Set up evaluation
  5. 5A/B test before full release
    Route a subset of live users to the tuned model and compare it against the incumbent, using online user testing or offline annotator feedback to confirm the gain.
  6. 6Serve and monitor in production
    Deploy through the inference engine in your own cloud or on-premise, log metrics back through the API, and watch traces and dashboards so the model keeps improving.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Reinforcement fine-tuning with PPO, GRPO and DPO is available from a single click, covering full model and adapter tuningAI
  • Synthetic data recipes plus AI and human feedback reduce the labelling burden before training startsAI
  • Evaluation is built in, with a customisable AI judge, RAG evaluators, A/B testing and production monitoringAI
  • Serving supports hundreds of fine-tuned adapters on a shared backbone, which cuts GPU requirements per workflowAI
  • Deployment in a private cloud or on-premise keeps proprietary data away from public model APIsAI

Cons

  • No public pricing, plans or free tier are published, so cost has to be established through a sales conversationAI
  • The product assumes real ML engineering capacity; Python recipes and custom jobs are not aimed at non-technical teamsAI
  • Adoption depends on having a measurable business metric and clean production feedback, which many teams lackAI
  • The site does not list third-party integration details beyond inference providers and NVIDIA NIMsAI
  • Adaptive ML has been acquired by Datadog, so roadmap and product packaging may changeAI

How much does Adaptive Engine cost?

Integrations

External inference providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google can be managed from within Adaptive Engine, and NVIDIA NIMs are supported for inference.

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Features

Three connected stages: Adapt handles reinforcement fine-tuning, synthetic data recipes, reasoning tuning and Python-based custom jobs. Evaluate provides a centralised model comparison view, a customisable AI judge with built-in RAG evaluators, A/B testing and production monitoring. Serve offers a proprietary inference engine, shared-backbone adapter serving and a single pane for external inference providers.

Frequently asked questions about Adaptive Engine

  • Does Adaptive Engine have an API?
    Yes, Adaptive Engine offers an API.
  • How do you use Adaptive Engine?
    The walkthrough on this page covers 6 steps: 1. Book a demo and scope the objective 2. Choose the adapt stage workflow 3. Seed training data with recipes 4. Set up evaluation 5. A/B test before full release 6. Serve and monitor in production.
  • What platforms does Adaptive Engine support?
    Adaptive Engine is available on Web App.
  • What does Adaptive Engine integrate with?
    External inference providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google can be managed from within Adaptive Engine, and NVIDIA NIMs are supported for inference.
  • What are the limitations of Adaptive Engine?
    No public pricing, plans or free tier are published, so cost has to be established through a sales conversation. The product assumes real ML engineering capacity; Python recipes and custom jobs are not aimed at non-technical teams. Adoption depends on having a measurable business metric and clean production feedback, which many teams lack.

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Added10/21/2026

Platforms

Web App

Pricing

Paid