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- ollama run to pull and chat with open models by name
- Local REST API with official Python and JavaScript libraries
- Cloud models billed through usage credits
Updated March 10, 2026
Baseten is a model inference platform that lets developers deploy and scale ML models with high-performance GPU infrastructure. It supports custom model deployments with autoscaling, and hosts popular open-source models through its Truss serving framework.
Ollama is an open-source tool for running open models like Gemma, Qwen, and DeepSeek locally through a CLI and REST API, with optional cloud models.
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What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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