Baseten scraps Basic/Pro/Enterprise tiers for Pay as you go and Production scale plans
The Basic, Pro and Enterprise plan cards are gone, replaced by two tiers: Pay as you go, a self-serve usage-based tier covering Model APIs, Dedicated Inference, Training and Sandboxes, and Production scale, a custom-priced tier with volume discounts and reserved, priority compute.
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WHY IT MATTERS
For AI infra buyers, this removes a decision point — which named tier to pick — in favor of paying for what's used, with enterprise terms reserved for teams who ask. It also signals that pricing-page complexity in this category keeps shifting from seat-like tiers toward metered line items, with the Sandboxes rate card now sitting alongside Model APIs and Dedicated Inference. Watch whether Baseten's Production scale tier starts publishing reference pricing of its own, the way Model API rates did this month, or stays quote-only.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Sandboxes pricing: $0.0655/hr CPU, $0.0211/GB-hr RAM, $0.20/GB-mo snapshots
- joey-1 ($0.01 input) removed from Model APIs table
- Previous change: Oct 30, 2026 — joey-1 added, just 4 days earlier
- 11 real pricing changes tracked since Jul 20, 2026; 9 in the last 90 days
THEIR RATIONALE
Baseten frames the new tiers around who's asking: “no contracts or capacity planning” for anyone starting out, versus custom pricing, volume discounts and reserved compute for teams running at scale. It fits the company's fast pace of changes — its previous move was adding the joey-1 model to the Model API rate table just four days earlier — but this one is different in kind: most of Baseten's recent activity has been new models and rate cuts inside the existing pricing table, not a rebuild of the plan structure itself.
THE SIGNAL
The restructuring folds Basic, Pro and Enterprise into a single usage-metered entry point, which lines up with where infrastructure pricing is heading: in the last 180 days, 323 pricing changes across 224 companies in the index touched credits or usage-based billing, about 12% of everything tracked. Baseten's own recent history sits almost entirely inside that pattern too — rate cuts, new model rows, revealed pricing — so collapsing Basic/Pro/Enterprise into Pay as you go is less a new direction than a cleanup that matches how the rest of its pricing already works.
IN CONTEXT
Baseten has been one of the index's most active pages since tracking began Jul 20, 2026 — 11 real changes at a roughly 10-day cadence, most recently adding the joey-1 model at $0.01 input just four days before this one, and before that cutting Reflection Beam rates by up to 72%. This change breaks that pattern: instead of another row in the Model APIs table, Baseten replaced its named Basic/Pro/Enterprise ladder with two usage tiers, Pay as you go and Production scale, and gave Sandboxes its own metered rate card. It lands inside a wider shift — usage and credit-based billing touched 323 pricing changes across 224 companies in the last 180 days, about 12% of everything the index tracked — so a model-hosting platform collapsing named tiers into pay-as-you-go pricing fits the category norm.