Clarifai
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The Fastest AI Inference and Reasoning on GPUs
How to Replace ClarifaiOverview
Features
50 features across 18 categories
AI Services(1)
Leverage fast inference for content moderation at scale
Account Management(1)
Manage multiple organizations within a single account
Automation(1)
Automated metadata tagging to speed labeling and improve asset searchability
Compute(5)
Dedicated GPU compute offering unparalleled control and efficiency with configurable instance types for specific model requirements
Share GPU resources across multiple models and workloads
Automatically scale compute resources down to zero when not in use
Pay-as-you-go shared serverless compute ideal for rapid prototyping, smaller workloads, and testing with maximum efficiency
Use cost-effective spot instances for non-critical workloads
Configuration(1)
Set custom rate limits for API requests based on specific needs
Data Management(2)
Automatically label data for model training using AI
Manage and organize datasets for training and evaluation
Deployment(5)
Securely bridge local AI, MCP servers, and agents via robust API to power any application
Push-button deployments onto pre-configured Serverless Compute with automated scaling, enabling rapid production go-live
Highly customizable, secure, and scalable options including self-hosting, hybrid cloud, and direct infrastructure integration
Securely expose and serve models running on local machines or private servers directly to Clarifai's Control Plane
Host custom, open-source, and third-party models all in one place with seamless compatibility
Developer Tools(1)
Intuitive Python SDK and powerful command-line interface for streamlined AI development and model management
Integration(2)
Host Model Context Protocol servers directly on Clarifai to securely connect LLMs to external tools and real-time data for agentic AI
Models offer OpenAI-compatible outputs, enabling seamless integration into existing workflows with minimal migration effort
Model Management(3)
Deploy custom AI models with lightning-fast inference in minutes with no infrastructure management required
Tools for evaluating model performance and accuracy
Export trained models for use outside the Clarifai platform
Model Training(4)
Train and deploy custom detection models for specific use cases
Deploy custom-trained image classification models
Deploy custom segmentation models trained on your data
Support for single GPU and multi-GPU model training containers
Performance(5)
Process multiple inference requests in batch mode for improved efficiency
Optimized inference engine benchmarked for complex reasoning tasks with exceptional speed and cost efficiency
Real-time streaming inference with bi-directional communication
Dramatically reduces AI latency from request to first token delivery, ensuring smooth and efficient AI execution
Delivers unprecedented token throughput even under high concurrency, enabling massive volumes of AI tasks efficiently
Platform(1)
Fully OpenAI-compatible orchestration layer enabling seamless model switching with just configuration changes
Pre-trained Models(13)
Anthropic's top model for high-quality, context-aware text generation handling summaries, inputs, and completions
Hybrid model supporting both thinking mode and non-thinking mode with improvements across multiple aspects
Agentic LLM developed by Mistral AI and All Hands AI to explore codebases, edit multiple files, and support engineering agents
OpenAI's most powerful open-weight model with exceptional instruction following, tool use, and reasoning capabilities
Natively multimodal AI model leveraging mixture-of-experts architecture for industry-leading multimodal performance
Highly efficient large language models designed explicitly for end-side devices
Pre-trained NER models for language processing tasks
Microsoft's open-weight reasoning model trained using supervised fine-tuning on chain-of-thought traces and reinforcement learning
Small image and language classification models available for inference
Pre-configured detection models for image processing
Pre-trained segmentation models for image analysis
80B-parameter sparsely activated reasoning-optimized LLM for complex reasoning tasks with efficiency in ultra-long context inference
Access to multiple vision language models for multimodal inference
Reliability(1)
Service level agreement guaranteeing 99.99% uptime for enterprise plans
Search(2)
Input and vector ingest for general embeddings and detection embeddings with search capabilities
Search functionality across indexed vectors and embeddings
Security(1)
Fine-grained permission management with role-based access and team support
Support(1)
Round-the-clock dedicated support team for enterprise customers
Pricing
Community
- ✓Limited monthly requests
- ✓1 request per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS and Local Dev deployment
- ✓Pre-trained model access
Essential
- ✓30,000 monthly requests
- ✓15 requests per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS and Local Dev deployment
- ✓Hybrid Cloud (Self-Hosted)
- ✓A10G, L4 GPU access
- ✓Pre-trained model access
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓Fine-tune capability
- ✓Model upload
- ✓Dataset management
- ✓Vector search
Professional
- ✓100,000 monthly requests
- ✓100 requests per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS and Local Dev deployment
- ✓Hybrid Cloud (Self-Hosted)
- ✓L40S, A100, H100, H200, B200 GPU access
- ✓Pre-trained model access
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Real-time bi-directional streaming
- ✓GPU fractioning
- ✓Scale to zero
- ✓Spot instances
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓Train & deploy
- ✓Full training
- ✓Enterprise AI
- ✓Model evaluation
- ✓Model upload
- ✓Model export
- ✓Dataset management
- ✓Vector search
- ✓Automated data labeling
Hybrid AI
- ✓Unlimited monthly requests
- ✓1000+ requests per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS, Local Dev, Hybrid Cloud (Self-Hosted)
- ✓VPC, On-Prem, Air Gapped deployment
- ✓A100, H100, H200, B200 GPU access
- ✓Intel & AMD CPU support
- ✓Pre-trained model access
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Real-time bi-directional streaming
- ✓GPU fractioning
- ✓Scale to zero
- ✓Spot instances
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓Train & deploy
- ✓Full training
- ✓Enterprise AI
- ✓Model evaluation
- ✓Model upload
- ✓Model export
- ✓Dataset management
- ✓Vector search
- ✓Automated data labeling
Enterprise
Popular- ✓Unlimited monthly requests
- ✓1000+ requests per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS, Local Dev, Hybrid Cloud (Self-Hosted)
- ✓VPC, On-Prem, Air Gapped deployment
- ✓A100, H100, H200, B200 GPU access
- ✓Intel & AMD CPU support
- ✓Pre-trained model access
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓Real-time bi-directional streaming
- ✓GPU fractioning
- ✓Scale to zero
- ✓Spot instances
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓Train & deploy
- ✓Full training
- ✓Enterprise AI
- ✓Model evaluation
- ✓Model upload
- ✓Model export
- ✓Dataset management
- ✓Vector search
- ✓Automated data labeling
- ✓99.99% SLA
- ✓24/7 dedicated support
- ✓Custom rate limits
- ✓Role-based access control
- ✓Multiple Organizations
Pay As You Go
- ✓100,000 monthly requests
- ✓100 requests per second
- ✓SDK & API access
- ✓SaaS, Local Dev, Hybrid Cloud (Self-Hosted) deployment
- ✓A10G, L4, L40S, A100 GPU access
- ✓Intel & AMD CPU support
- ✓Pre-trained model access
- ✓Batch requests
- ✓GPU fractioning
- ✓Scale to zero
- ✓Spot instances
- ✓Custom model training
- ✓Train & deploy
- ✓Enterprise AI
- ✓Model evaluation
- ✓Model upload
- ✓Model export
- ✓Dataset management
- ✓Vector search
- ✓Automated data labeling
- ✓Promotional access to Local Runners
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Integrations
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