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Cerebras Inference vs Fireworks AI
Cerebras Inference or Fireworks AI? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Runs models for you
- Only Fireworks AI states: Command line, Official SDKs
Cerebras Inference
Cerebras Inference provides API access to fast cloud inference for language and multimodal models.
Plans
Developer Tier — OpenAI GPT OSS 120B
- $0.35/M tokens
- $0.75/M tokens
- ~3000 tokens/s
Developer Tier — QWEN Qwen 3.8 27B
- $0.99/M tokens
- $1.49/M tokens
- ~1,850 tokens/s
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “choose the best model for your use case and requirements.” source
- API — “OpenAI API compatibility lets developers build on Cerebras with just two code changes.” source
- Runs models for you — “The Fastest AI Inference Cloud” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Report” source
- GDPR — “LEGAL Data Processing Agreement” source
Latest updates
- Temporary increase to Qwen 3.8 27B total token rate limit
The Developer tier total token rate limit for qwen-3.8-27b is temporarily increased from 450K to 750K tokens per minute.
- Gemma 4 31B availability changes on public endpoints
gemma-4-31b is no longer available on Cerebras public endpoints. Gemma 4 31B remains available on Dedicated Endpoints.
- Qwen 3.8 27B available on public endpoints
qwen-3.8-27b is now available on Cerebras public endpoints.
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI hosts, fine-tunes, and serves open models through serverless and dedicated APIs.
Plans
Serverless Inference — Embeddings (up to 150M parameters)
- $0.008 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Serverless Inference — Embeddings (150M–350M parameters)
- $0.016 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Serverless Inference — Qwen3 8B
- $0.1 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Managed Training — Models up to 16B parameters
- $0.50 / 1M training tokens
- $1.00 / 1M training tokens
- $2.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models 16.1B–80B
- $3.00 / 1M training tokens
- $6.00 / 1M training tokens
- $12.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models 80B–300B
- $6.00 / 1M training tokens
- $12.00 / 1M training tokens
- $24.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models over 300B
- $10.00 / 1M training tokens
- $20.00 / 1M training tokens
- $40.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Serverless Training API — GLM 5.3
- $4.86 / 1M Prefill
- $0.972 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $12.15 / 1M Sample
- $14.58 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Serverless Training API — Qwen 3.8 27B
- $1.86 / 1M Prefill
- $0.372 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $5.595 / 1M Sample
- $4.103 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Serverless Training API — Kimi K3
- $10.87 / 1M Prefill
- $2.17 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $27.11 / 1M Sample
- $32.55 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Developers Model Library Docs CLI API Changelog” source
- Choice of models — “Route to the best open or closed model for every task, and cut your AI coding spend 50 to 75%.” source
- API — “Serverless. Pay per token with Priority and Fast options to meet your requirements. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible.” source
- Official SDKs — “The Fireworks Training SDK lets us focus on our research instead of wrestling with infrastructure.” source
- Runs models for you — “Serve the latest open models, or your own trained versions.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO 27001 Certificate” source
- ISO 42001 — “ISO 42001 Certificate” source
- GDPR — “Compliance SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA GDPR” source
- HIPAA — “SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA” source
Latest updates
- Serverless pricing update: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Serverless pricing for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash changes; dedicated deployment and Reserved Throughput pricing is unaffected.
- New deployment creation flags: deploymentShape: "default" and acceptShapelessRisk
Create Deployment adds deploymentShape: "default" to pick a validated deployment shape and acceptShapelessRisk to create without a shape.
- Upcoming Serverless deprecation: older DeepSeek, GLM, Muse, and Kimi models
Several older Serverless models will be decommissioned on September 25, 2026; migrate to a recommended replacement before then.