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Deep Infra

deepinfra.com

DeepInfra provides production-ready AI inference through simple APIs and a broad catalog of machine-learning models.

HQPalo Alto, California, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$28.6M
11 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 5h ago
AI / MLFoundation Model ProviderAPI / PlatformSeries A$10M-$50M

About

DeepInfra provides production-ready AI inference infrastructure and more than 100 machine-learning models through simple APIs for startups and enterprise customers. It differentiates through pay-as-you-go pricing, tailored inference optimized for cost or performance, hands-on support, and privacy-focused zero data retention.

Market

Deep Infra competes in the AI inference cloud and GPU-based model-serving market, providing hosted access to a broad catalog of open-source models through production APIs. Its positioning emphasizes low-cost, usage-based inference, OpenAI compatibility, and breadth of supported modalities, while private deployments on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs provide customization and data isolation that complement its public serverless-style offering.

Target Customers

Deep Infra primarily serves software companies and AI product teams—from startups to larger enterprises—that need production-grade inference for open-source models without building and operating the serving layer themselves. It also targets teams with custom fine-tuned models, compliance requirements, or data-isolation needs that require private GPU deployments.

At a Glance

Problem

AI model training has advanced faster than the infrastructure required to run models reliably in production. Deep Infra addresses the resulting inference bottleneck for developers and enterprises that need to serve large language, vision, embedding, image, video, and speech models without building and operating their own GPU platform. The operational pain is both technical and economic: latency, time-to-first-token, and GPU utilization directly affect user experience and cost, while idle capacity, minimum commitments, and fragmented model deployments make production AI expensive and difficult to scale.

The primary use case is taking an open-source or fine-tuned model from experimentation into a production application through a reliable inference endpoint. This is especially valuable for teams that want the flexibility and economics of open-source models but lack the infrastructure expertise or GPU capacity to serve them at scale.

Product / Service

Deep Infra is an AI inference cloud delivered through simple, OpenAI-compatible APIs. It offers a broad, frequently updated catalog of open-source models across multiple modalities, with usage-based pricing that is generally charged per token for language models or by inference execution time for other models. Customers can pay as they use the service rather than provisioning idle GPUs or signing long-term contracts, while Deep Infra handles the underlying serving infrastructure, scaling, and model deployment.

For customers requiring greater control, Deep Infra supports private deployments of custom or fine-tuned models on dedicated A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300 GPUs, with autoscaling and private endpoints. The benefit is a combination of faster deployment, lower and more predictable inference costs, production-grade performance, and enterprise privacy: the company advertises zero data retention and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification.

Market

Deep Infra competes in the AI inference cloud and model-serving segment of the broader AI infrastructure market, with a particular emphasis on low-cost, open-source model inference. Its positioning combines a large model catalog, rapid availability of newly released models, OpenAI-compatible integration, pay-as-you-go economics, and private GPU deployments. Named alternatives include Puter.js, OpenRouter, Replicate, Together AI, and RunPod, while the broader competitive set includes other hosted inference and GPU infrastructure providers.

The company shows meaningful traction rather than appearing pre-revenue, although the cited public materials do not disclose revenue. Deep Infra announced an $18 million Series A in April 2025 and a $107 million Series B in May 2026, said its processing volume had grown more than 8,000 times since the seed stage, and reported more than 150 open-source models through its APIs. Its Series B announcement also cites collaboration with NVIDIA and customers ranging from developers to scaleups and enterprises, indicating substantial infrastructure expansion and commercial adoption, even though the available evidence does not provide customer counts or revenue figures.

Founders & Leadership

Nikola BorisovFounder
Founder and CEO
Georgios PapoutsisFounder
Founder
Yessenzhar KanapinFounder
Founder

Funding History

2023-11
Seed$8M

A.Capital, Felicis Ventures

2025-04
Series A$18M

Felicis, Georges Harik

2026-05
Series B$107M

500 Global, Georges Harik

Recent News

2026-07-01product
DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Qwen3.6 vs GLM-4.6 Benchmarks

DeepInfra published a comparative benchmark of DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen3.6, and GLM-4.6. The article notes that DeepSeek V4 Flash launched in September 2025 as an open-weight model under the MIT license.

2026-06-30
How DeepInfra Built on NVIDIA's Inference Stack and Why It Paid Off

DeepInfra described its use of Blackwell-generation GPUs, TensorRT-LLM, and NVIDIA Dynamo for distributed inference. It reported that a workload previously requiring four H200 GPUs could run on one B300 at higher throughput.

2026-05-04funding
Deepinfra lands $107M in funding to build out its dedicated inference cloud for open-source models

DeepInfra raised $107 million in Series B funding led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, with participation from additional infrastructure and venture investors. The company plans to expand its inference cloud and global capacity for production-scale AI workloads.

2026-04-30product
DeepSeek V4 Pro: Model Overview, Features & Performance Guide

DeepInfra published an overview of DeepSeek V4 Pro, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model released by DeepSeek under the MIT license. The article highlights its long-context architecture and production inference characteristics.

2026-04-29partnership
DeepInfra on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥

DeepInfra became a supported inference provider on the Hugging Face Hub. The integration initially supports conversational and text-generation tasks and is available through Hugging Face's Python and JavaScript SDKs.

2026-03-11partnership
Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on DeepInfra

DeepInfra announced that it was an official launch partner for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. The open model was made available on DeepInfra from day one with low-latency serving and no deployment setup for users.

2025-12-01product
GLM-4.6 API: Get fast first tokens at the best $/M from Deepinfra's API

DeepInfra highlighted API access to GLM-4.6, describing the reasoning-tuned model's use in coding copilots, long-context retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-tool agent loops.

2025-10-28product
DeepInfra Launches Access to NVIDIA Nemotron Models for Vision, Retrieval, and AI Safety

DeepInfra announced access to newly released open NVIDIA Nemotron vision-language and OCR models from the first day of release, expanding its hosted model catalog for multimodal and retrieval-oriented use cases.

Active Roles

11
Palo Alto/Forward-Deployed Engineer/21d ago
Palo Alto/Sales/21d ago
Palo Alto/Engineering/71d ago
Remote - Sofia/Engineering/157d ago
Palo Alto/Engineering/163d ago
Palo Alto/Marketing/197d ago
Remote - Sofia/Engineering/197d ago
Palo Alto/Engineering/197d ago
Palo Alto/Engineering/197d ago
Remote - Sofia/Engineering/197d ago

Business Model

DeepInfra monetizes AI model inference through low, pay-as-you-go API pricing, without long-term contracts or hidden fees. It also supports startup and enterprise deployments with scalable infrastructure and hands-on technical support.

Products

Managed AI inference cloud for LLMs and chatVision and OCR inferenceEmbeddings, image generation, video generation, and speech APIsPrivate deployment of custom or fine-tuned modelsGPU rental and dedicated autoscaling GPU infrastructure

Tech Stack

Open-source and open-weight LLMs, embeddings, vision, image/video generation, and speech modelsOpenAI-compatible API plus a native HTTP inference APINVIDIA GPU infrastructure using A100, H100, H200, B200, and B300 hardwarePrivate model deployments with autoscaling and dedicated GPU instances

Competitors

Together AI
Groq
Fireworks AI

Key Investors

Felicis Ventures, A.Capital Ventures, 500 Global, Georges Harik, Brian Pokorny