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Fireworks AI

Serve open models with fast OpenAI-compatible inference and fine-tuning

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CategoryAI & machine learning
PricingTrial only
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ABOUT

What is Fireworks AI?

Fireworks AI hosts open models behind fast serverless and dedicated inference APIs, with support for fine-tuning and custom deployments. Its OpenAI and Anthropic-compatible endpoints cover text, vision, embeddings, image and audio workloads with per-token or per-GPU pricing.

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP

What you should know

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OpenAI and Anthropic compatibilityFireworks provides compatible chat endpoints for both OpenAI and Anthropic SDK patterns, which lowers the migration cost for existing applications.
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Fine-tuning and serving togetherTeams can fine-tune supported open models and serve the resulting versions through the same platform, with serverless or dedicated deployment options.
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Adaptive limits reward steady usageServerless limits track total prompt, uncached prompt and generated tokens per minute. The limits grow or shrink with usage and spending tier rather than staying at one fixed quota.
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Free credit ends at one dollarNew accounts receive $1 in free credits, but the account is suspended without a payment method once those credits are exhausted.

COMMUNITY

From the forums

Users in r/LocalLLaMA often highlight Fireworks AI's open-model coverage, token pricing and throughput as reasons to try it. The same discussions question whether hosted providers preserve model quality and mention privacy assumptions, account limits and behavior differences between providers, making direct benchmarks important.

— Community sentiment · Reddit

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

How much free credit does Fireworks AI offer?＋

Fireworks AI currently gives new accounts $1 in free credits. Without a payment method, the account is suspended when the credit is used.

How is Fireworks AI priced?＋

Serverless inference is priced per token and on-demand deployments per GPU time. For example, the current table lists DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.14 per 1 million input tokens and $0.28 per 1 million output tokens.

What are Fireworks AI's rate limits?＋

Without a payment method or active credits, the account-wide limit is 10 requests per minute. With active credits, the account-wide ceiling is 6,000 requests per minute, while serverless token limits are adaptive.