Alternatives to Cerebras

Groq delivers fast LLM inference on its own LPU and LPX silicon through an OpenAI-compatible API.

Together Compute delivers an OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-weight models, with published per-token pricing.

Etched builds custom inference silicon and rack-scale frontier inference clusters for trillion-parameter MoE prefill and decode.

SambaNova Cloud delivers fast, energy-efficient inference for open-weight models like MiniMax M2.7 and DeepSeek-V3.1 on its own RDU chips.

Mistral sells sovereign AI you can own: open-weight models, in-region inference, and agents built on top

SGLang is the open-source LLM serving framework built for high-throughput, low-latency inference on your own GPUs.

MAX Engine: OpenAI-compatible inference for open models, one stack across NVIDIA, AMD, Apple silicon, and Qualcomm.

NVIDIA's Apache-2.0 library for high-throughput LLM and visual generation inference on NVIDIA GPUs.

DeepInfra runs serverless AI inference on 100+ open models through one OpenAI-compatible API key.

BitNet (bitnet.cpp) runs 1-bit and ternary BitNet b1.58 LLMs on CPU and GPU with lossless 1.58-bit inference — no GPU fleet required.

One inference stack — same container and OpenAI-compatible API across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, Trainium, Qualcomm, and Apple silicon

One pay-as-you-go inference API for image, video, audio, LLM and 3D generation across 400K+ models.

Chiplet-based AI inference hardware — Rebel100 silicon plus RebelCard, RebelServer, RebelRack and RebelPOD systems for enterprise LLM serving.

GMI Cloud Inference Engine runs frontier text, image, video, and audio models behind one OpenAI-compatible API on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs.

Run Llama 3.1 405B and other huge language models at home over a BitTorrent-style decentralized inference network.

Open-source LLM inference engine with PagedAttention, continuous batching and an OpenAI-compatible API for self-hosted serving.

Decentralized, unfiltered AI inference on a peer-to-peer GPU network.

Pioneer is a self-improving inference API that routes every call to the right model and retrains itself from your production traffic.

LocalAI is an MIT-licensed local AI runtime that serves text, voice, vision, image and agent workloads behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

KubeAI is a Kubernetes operator for self-hosted LLM, embedding, reranking, and speech-to-text inference with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Wafer Pass swaps per-token inference billing for a flat-rate subscription on open models like GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi.

Predibase: managed fine-tuning and multi-LoRA serving for open-source LLMs, now inside Rubrik.

Managed Ray platform for distributed model training, multimodal data curation, and batch embedding generation on your own GPUs.

Pollinations is a single REST API for image, video, speech, music, and text generation — start prompting without a key

Free AI image and text generation on Stable Horde — volunteer GPUs, no account needed.

Novita AI runs 200+ open-weight LLMs, image, audio and video models through one serverless API, plus GPU cloud and an Agent Sandbox.

Mesh LLM splits giant open-weight models across your own GPUs and serves them as one local OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost:9337.

TokenHot is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API gateway that cuts frontier model API costs by up to 90% with one base URL swap.

Parallax is a distributed model serving framework for building your own self-hosted LLM cluster from mismatched machines.

Open-source worker client that donates your idle GPU or CPU cycles to the AI Horde so anyone can generate images and text for free.