{"name":"Fireworks AI","tagline":"Fast inference platform for open models — serverless and on-demand GPUs.","url":"https://fireworks.ai","category":"dev-infra","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"$1 starter credits; serverless from $0.10/1M tokens; on-demand GPU from $7/hr","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":true,"self_host":false,"models_used":["llama-4-maverick","qwen3-8-max"],"model_routing":"locked","verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"Fast inference, and the tooling around it — function calling, multimodal — is solid. The catch is you're shopping the same open models across Fireworks, Together and Groq. Price-check them each quarter and pick whoever's cheaper.","limitations":["Differentiation vs Together/Groq unclear for standard inference.","Enterprise pricing opaque.","Smaller free tier than rivals.","GPU on-demand prices rise 2026-09-01 (H100 $7 to $8/hr)."],"strengths":["Fast inference with solid function-calling and multimodal tooling.","Serverless and on-demand GPU options for different workloads.","Useful open-model catalog if you already know the model you want."],"use_for":["Open-model inference when you want a serverless endpoint.","Workloads that need dedicated GPU hours instead of per-token billing."],"skip_when":["You need transparent enterprise pricing before signing.","The free tier is too small for your evaluation.","A rival host is cheaper for the same open model this quarter."],"receipts":["https://fireworks.ai","https://fireworks.ai/pricing"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"steady","featured":false,"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"fireworks-ai","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/fireworks-ai/","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."}