Alternatives to MAX Engine

Modular runs one AI inference stack — same model, container, and OpenAI-compatible API — across NVIDIA, AMD, TPU, Trainium, and Qualcomm

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

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

Together Compute is an OpenAI-compatible inference API for serving open-weight AI models at published per-token rates.

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

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

Groq runs an inference cloud tuned for fast LLM inference on open-weight models, built on its LPU and LPX silicon.

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

TensorRT-LLM is NVIDIA's open-source library for maximum-throughput LLM and visual generation inference on NVIDIA GPUs.

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 is the sovereign AI stack: frontier open-weight models you can self-host, fine-tune, or run in-region.

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

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

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

Chiplet-based AI inference accelerators — Rebel100 silicon, RebelCard, RebelServer, RebelRack and RebelPOD for enterprise LLM inference.

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

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

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

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

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

Cerebras inference runs GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast at up to 750 tokens/sec on wafer-scale hardware for latency-critical agents, code tools, and

Runware is a pay-as-you-go inference API for image, video, audio, 3D and LLM generation on one endpoint.

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.

Parallax turns mismatched machines into one self-hosted LLM cluster for decentralized inference.

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

One REST API for text, image, audio, and video generation — no API key needed to start

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