LLM Infrastructure & APIs

LLM API providers, inference hosting platforms, custom silicon accelerators, and enterprise AI gateways — the full stack for running and managing large language models in production.

Quick Comparison

Tool Pricing Open Source Self-Hosted Maturity
Cerebras usage-based No No growing
DeepInfra usage-based No No growing
Fireworks AI usage-based No No growing
Groq usage-based No No growing
LiteLLM open-source Yes Yes growing
Portkey paid No Yes growing
Together AI usage-based No No growing

Cerebras

growing

Wafer-scale AI chip delivering the fastest inference and training performance

usage-based
Maximum inference speed Large model inference (405B+) Training and inference on custom silicon

DeepInfra

growing

Cost-optimized inference platform with 100+ models at industry-lowest prices

usage-based Free Tier
Cost-sensitive inference workloads Drop-in OpenAI API replacement Open-weight model hosting

Fireworks AI

growing

Fastest inference platform with Multi-LoRA serving and compound AI systems

usage-based Free Tier
Low-latency inference Multi-LoRA fine-tuned model serving Compound AI systems

Groq

growing

Custom LPU silicon delivering ultra-fast, deterministic LLM inference

usage-based Free Tier
Ultra-low latency inference Real-time AI applications Deterministic performance (no jitter)

LiteLLM

growing

Open-source LLM gateway supporting 2,000+ APIs in OpenAI-compatible format

Open Source open-source Free Tier
OpenAI-compatible API abstraction Self-hosted LLM gateway Multi-provider cost management

Portkey

growing

Enterprise AI gateway with 1,600+ LLM integrations and policy-as-code governance

paid
Multi-provider LLM routing Enterprise AI governance Semantic caching

Together AI

growing

Full-stack inference platform with 200+ models, fine-tuning, and custom training

usage-based Free Tier
Open-weight model inference Fine-tuning (LoRA and full) Custom model training