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Onrup vs Baseten
Should I use Onrup or Baseten?
Baseten is the better choice if you are deploying into a regulated environment and need compliance certifications, cold-start engineering and hands-on support. Onrup is the better choice if fine-tuning is the centre of the work and price predictability matters more than the operational envelope.
Model deployment and serving with strong operational tooling, compliance posture and cold-start engineering.
Where they differ
| Onrup | Baseten | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Fine-tuning, with serving attached | Serving, with training attached |
| Compliance | Security review support on Enterprise | SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA on the base plan |
| H100 rate | $2.99 per GPU-hour serving | $6.50 per GPU-hour |
| Evaluation gate | Blinded, blocking, before deploy | Not part of the product |
| Support | Email; named contact on Enterprise | Engineering-level, dedicated channels |
On comparable hardware
Baseten publishes $6.50 per H100 80GB hour. Our serving rate for the same class is $2.99, which makes theirs 2.2× the rate. Total cost is the rate multiplied by wall time, so this ratio is the starting point of a comparison rather than the end of one.
Published per minute: H100 80GB at $0.10833/min, which is $6.50 per GPU-hour; A100 80GB at $0.06667/min, or $4.00 per hour. Training is offered but is not priced per training token. SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA are on the base plan. Source, checked 2026-08-06.
The longer answer
Baseten is the strongest operator in this comparison set. Their cold-start work is genuinely good, their compliance posture is available on the entry plan rather than gated behind an enterprise conversation, and their support engages at an engineering level. If you are deploying models into an environment where an auditor will ask questions, that combination is worth more than a lower hourly rate.
The difference in emphasis shows in what each product makes easy. Baseten makes deploying and operating a model easy. We make producing a model you can justify deploying easy — the dataset validation, the cost gate, the blinded comparison against the incumbent.
The price gap on comparable hardware is large: $6.50 against $2.99 per H100-hour for serving. That is real money at steady volume, and it is also a fair reflection of what each of us is selling. Some of their rate is buying the operational envelope described above.
If your problem is "we have a model and it needs to run reliably in production under compliance constraints", they are the better answer. If it is "we need a model and we need to know it is better than what we have", we are.
Where Baseten wins
Production operations. Cold-start work, compliance certifications on the entry plan, and support that engages at an engineering level rather than a ticket level. If you are deploying into a regulated environment, that is worth more than a lower hourly rate.
Choose them if
- You need SOC 2 Type II or HIPAA on day one
- Cold-start latency is a product requirement, not a preference
- You want hands-on engineering support during deployment
On ownership
Weights on Onrup are downloadable from every finished run and publishable to a model hub in one call. On Baseten: You bring and keep your own model artefacts.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have SOC 2?
We support security review and questionnaires on the Enterprise plan. If a certification is a hard requirement today rather than a preference, Baseten is the straightforward answer and we will say so.
How do your cold starts compare?
Cold-start engineering is an area where they have invested more than we have. Our mitigation is architectural — adapters load against an already-resident base much faster than whole models load — rather than a claim to be faster in general.
Can I train here and serve there?
Yes. Weights and adapters are downloadable, and publishing to a hub is one call, so serving elsewhere is a supported outcome rather than a defection.
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Last verified 6 August 2026. Baseten figures come from their own pricing page on the date checked.
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