{"slug": "baseten", "name": "Baseten", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 2, "warners": 1, "score": 0.023, "rising": 1.0, "first": "2026-08-07", "latest": "2026-09-14", "why": "I've gotten a few people set up with Baseten recently", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I've gotten a few people set up with Baseten recently", "icon": false, "domain": "baseten.co", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://baseten.co", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Baseten"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795144096, "item_id": 49696506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696506", "by": "ssivark", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've gotten a few people set up with Baseten recently", "excerpt": "> to separate ZDR, attestation, and confidential routes Could you please clarify what that means? Given what I've been searching for, I might in principle be part of your intended customer profile, but I can't figure out whether you are merely doing routing (alternative to OpenRouter) or also inference (alternative to the names I've mentioned above). If it's merely routing, then how do you protect me from any potenti", "context": "AI researcher advising others on token APIs", "use_case": "token API inference", "switched_from": "", "story": "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787493648, "item_id": 49218353, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218353", "by": "johnnyApplePRNG", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Baseten.co's version got into a loop rather rapidly", "excerpt": "What quantization are you using? Which infra provider? Baseten.co's version got into a loop rather rapidly... I've since added loop detection and adjusted some other settings on the pi coding agent and have yet to notice it again. I also switched to DeepInfra ... who serves an fp4 version admittedly, but I've had no issues with it as of yet and it's the top provider on openrouter.ai volume wise.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting DeepSeek V4 Flash", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"}]}], "who": [{"by": "ssivark", "context": "AI researcher advising others on token APIs", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696506", "date": "2026-09-14"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["token api inference", "hosting deepseek v4 flash"], "compared": [{"slug": "deepinfra", "name": "DeepInfra", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "openrouter", "name": "OpenRouter", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685253", "title": "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008", "title": "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 795144096, "item_id": 49696506, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696506", "by": "ssivark", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've gotten a few people set up with Baseten recently", "excerpt": "> to separate ZDR, attestation, and confidential routes Could you please clarify what that means? Given what I've been searching for, I might in principle be part of your intended customer profile, but I can't figure out whether you are merely doing routing (alternative to OpenRouter) or also inference (alternative to the names I've mentioned above). If it's merely routing, then how do you protect me from any potenti", "context": "AI researcher advising others on token APIs", "use_case": "token API inference", "switched_from": "", "story": "Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too"}, {"id": 787493648, "item_id": 49218353, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218353", "by": "johnnyApplePRNG", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Baseten.co's version got into a loop rather rapidly", "excerpt": "What quantization are you using? Which infra provider? Baseten.co's version got into a loop rather rapidly... I've since added loop detection and adjusted some other settings on the pi coding agent and have yet to notice it again. I also switched to DeepInfra ... who serves an fp4 version admittedly, but I've had no issues with it as of yet and it's the top provider on openrouter.ai volume wise.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting DeepSeek V4 Flash", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"}]}