Providers as of Oct 2026

AI Inference Tier List

Rank 62 AI inference providers across 61 companies—from wafer-scale ASICs (Cerebras, Groq, SambaNova, Taalas) and serverless GPU clouds (Together, Fireworks, Baseten, DeepInfra) to hyperscalers, frontier lab APIs, sovereign European clouds, and media/voice platforms. Compare speed-versus-price Pareto frontiers, run a live token streaming race, trace accelerator silicon, or map data-center residency below.

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Popular includes the most widely used inference clouds and frontier APIs tracked by Artificial Analysis (benchmarks, tracked LLM hosts), and BenchLeader (frontier labs, top-50 model APIs). Switch to Open-Weight Hosts or All for 37 more.

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Speed × Price Frontier

Throughput (tok/s) versus blended $/1M token cost and the Pareto efficiency curve.

On gpt-oss-120b, Cerebras Inference leads throughput at 759 tok/s ($0.45/1M), while Venice AI is the lowest-cost host at $0.060/1M (42 tok/s). 7 hosts sit on the speed-per-dollar Pareto frontier.

0225450675900$0.050$0.10$0.20$0.50Output throughput (tok/s, higher is faster ↑)← Cheaper · Blended price ($/1M tokens, 3:1 input:output, log scale)
Pareto frontier (strictly faster than every cheaper host) Top-left = fastest & cheapest · Checked 2026-10-30