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Same-model provider benchmark

Baseten vs Weights & Biases: LLM provider comparison

Compare Baseten and Weights & Biases on 4 exact shared text models. ProviderBench keeps speed, price, and catalog coverage separate so naturally faster model catalogs cannot distort the result.

Baseten

5 indexed models

Headquarters
United States
Server regions
N/a
Model types
5 text

Weights & Biases

19 indexed models

Headquarters
United States
Server regions
United States
Model types
19 text

At a glance

Metric winners

There is no overall score. Each winner answers one specific question using only directly comparable data.

Fastest on shared models

1.38× typical advantage

4 exact models with complete recent speed data

Lowest token cost

$1.6883 / 1M

4 exact models using a 1K-input/500-output mix

Most models available

19 models

Complete catalog coverage across all indexed modalities

Shared-model benchmark summary

MetricBasetenWeights & Biases
Typical 500-token response5.96 s10.41 s
Typical response start0.35 s0.88 s
Typical output speed89.0 tok/s80.5 tok/s
Blended token price$1.73 / 1M$1.6883 / 1M
Typical route uptime99.98%97.62%

Visual comparison

Price and performance charts

BasetenWeights & Biases
500-token response by shared model

Estimated seconds using recent median response-start and output-speed data. Lower is better.

Baseten has the lower typical same-model response ratio across 4 measured models.

Blended token price by shared model

USD per 1 million tokens using a 1,000-input/500-output mix. Lower is better.

Weights & Biases has the lower typical price ratio across 4 priced shared models.

Shared text models

4 exact models · newest first

ModelBasetenWeights & Biases
GLM 5.2Winner · Weights & Biases

z-ai/glm-5.2

Baseten
Blended price
$2.4 / 1M
500-token response
5.86 s
Response starts
0.24 s
Output speed
89.0 tok/s
Route uptime
100.00%
Context
256K
Route
baseten/fp8
Weights & Biases
Blended price
$2.3933 / 1M
500-token response
4.48 s
Response starts
0.58 s
Output speed
128.0 tok/s
Route uptime
99.89%
Context
262.1K
Route
wandb/fp4
DeepSeek V4 ProWinner · Baseten

deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro

Baseten
Blended price
$2.32 / 1M
500-token response
6.07 s
Response starts
0.45 s
Output speed
89.0 tok/s
Route uptime
99.97%
Context
262.1K
Route
baseten/fp4
Weights & Biases
Blended price
$2.32 / 1M
500-token response
126.79 s
Response starts
1.79 s
Output speed
4.0 tok/s
Route uptime
97.62%
Context
1M
Route
wandb/fp8
Kimi K2.6Winner · Weights & Biases

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6

Baseten
Blended price
$1.9667 / 1M
500-token response
18.00 s
Response starts
3.51 s
Output speed
34.5 tok/s
Route uptime
N/a
Context
262K
Route
baseten/fp4
Weights & Biases
Blended price
$1.9667 / 1M
500-token response
4.30 s
Response starts
0.45 s
Output speed
130.0 tok/s
Route uptime
100.00%
Context
262.1K
Route
wandb/fp4
gpt-oss-120bWinner · Baseten

openai/gpt-oss-120b

Baseten
Blended price
$0.2333 / 1M
500-token response
2.29 s
Response starts
0.26 s
Output speed
246.0 tok/s
Route uptime
99.98%
Context
128.1K
Route
baseten/fp4
Weights & Biases
Blended price
$0.0733 / 1M
500-token response
16.33 s
Response starts
1.18 s
Output speed
33.0 tok/s
Route uptime
29.94%
Context
131.1K
Route
wandb/fp4

A per-model winner combines blended price and estimated 500-token response time with equal proportional weight. Ties and rows missing either measurement receive no badge. Comparison data calculated . Values use one deterministic route per provider and model; missing measurements remain visible as N/a.

Baseten vs Weights & Biases analysis

How Baseten and Weights & Biases compare for AI inference

Baseten and Weights & Biases share 4 indexed text models, including GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K2.6, gpt-oss-120b. Baseten has the stronger typical response-time result on the directly measured set.

Same-model speed evidence

4 shared models currently have complete response-start and output-speed measurements on both providers. The speed comparison uses per-model ratios before taking the median, so naturally faster model catalogs do not improve the result.

Token pricing on one workload

4 shared models have complete input and output prices on both providers. Prices use the same 1,000-input/500-output-token mix and are normalized to one million tokens for readability.

Catalog and deployment differences

Baseten has 5 indexed models and lists no published server regions; Weights & Biases has 19 models and lists 1 region. Verify data residency, privacy terms, limits, and production latency directly before choosing.