Baseten

Baseten is an inference platform for running open image generation models such as Flux Schnell, Flux Dev and SDXL Lightning in production, with real time serving, an API first workflow and infrastructure that scales with traffic.

Baseten is an inference platform aimed at teams that want to run open image generation models in production rather than through a hosted consumer app. The image generation solution page positions the product around speed and cost efficiency, with hosting tuned for real time workloads and capacity that scales with demand. The offering is squarely infrastructure: a company brings its own prompts and application, and Baseten handles serving the models underneath. The platform ships a library of ready to deploy open models, including Flux Schnell, Flux Dev and SDXL Lightning, alongside a text to image collection. That matters because model choice drives both output quality and per image cost, and teams can benchmark candidates before committing. Chaining workflows are covered in the documentation, so a text to image call can sit inside a larger pipeline instead of being a standalone endpoint. Inference runs on NVIDIA hardware with a serverless style deployment flow: sign up, deploy, and call the model through an API. The audience is product and engineering teams building image features into their own software: a design tool that needs on demand visuals, a marketing platform generating variants at volume, or an app that renders images while a user waits. The customer roster spans large consumer and enterprise names across design, productivity and search, which signals the platform is built for traffic rather than experimentation. A custom model route exists for teams with their own weights. Against fully managed image APIs, Baseten trades some convenience for control over model selection, hardware and cost curve, and it does not replace a creative interface for people who simply want to type a prompt and download a picture. The site also advertises arrangements for teams with existing OpenAI commitments who want to run open models. Pricing figures are not published on this page, so costs have to be scoped through a conversation with the sales team.