{"name":"Cerebras","tagline":"Ultra-fast inference on wafer-scale AI accelerators with competitive API pricing.","url":"https://cerebras.ai","category":"models-api","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"free trial ($5 credits); self-serve Developer from $10 deposit; Enterprise custom","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":true,"self_host":false,"model_routing":"bundled","verdict":"ship","verdict_text":"Latency is the selling point: responses feel instant on big open models. Pricing undercuts many cloud APIs. The model menu is narrower and you need to trust their hardware stack.","limitations":["Model catalog is smaller than OpenRouter or Together.","Requires migration to their API endpoints.","Long-term roadmap depends on hardware business."],"strengths":["Latency is the selling point: big open models feel instant.","API pricing undercuts many cloud inference hosts."],"use_for":["Autocomplete, voice, or chat UIs where wait time kills the loop.","Open models you already picked, if they are on the Cerebras menu."],"skip_when":["You need the wide catalog of OpenRouter or Together.","Migrating off your current endpoints is not worth the speed.","You will not bet the roadmap on their hardware business."],"receipts":["https://cerebras.ai","https://www.cerebras.ai/pricing"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"cerebras","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/cerebras/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}