NVIDIA Software / SaaS Global

Baseten

IT Operations Automation

Baseten needed to orchestrate a global, multi-cloud GPU fleet for increasingly large reasoning models while improving latency, throughput, and cost efficiency enough to keep real-time AI inference practical for enterprise customers.

25% better cost performance for latency-sensitive inference
5× higher throughput for high-traffic endpoints
More than 10 cloud providers across dozens of regions unified into one GPU pool
Over 60% throughput boost for Writer’s Palmyra LLMs

Reported impact

Business outcome

Baseten now serves five times as many requests on the same number of GPUs, improved price-performance for frontier reasoning models by up to 225 percent, reduced latency by up to 38 percent for large LLMs, can provision thousands of GPUs in under five minutes, and boosted throughput by over 60 percent for Writer’s Palmyra models.

  • Cost Reduction
  • Customer Experience
  • Scalability

Solution

Baseten built its inference platform around a unified global GPU pool and then upgraded the serving layer with NVIDIA Blackwell hardware and NVIDIA’s open inference stack. The company aggregates GPUs from more than 10 cloud providers across dozens of regions, uses its multi-cloud capacity management layer to provision thousands of GPUs in under five minutes, and abstracts away regional latency differences for customers. On Google Cloud A4 VMs and NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, Baseten combines NVIDIA CUDA, NVIDIA Dynamo, and NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM with open-source engines such as SGLang to run frontier reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1, Llama 4, and gpt-oss. That architecture supports disaggregated serving, LLM-aware routing, KV-cache offload, and custom model compilation, so Baseten can serve public model APIs and dedicated customer deployments with much higher throughput and lower latency than its previous generation.

Data flow

Customer traffic hits Baseten’s global GPU pool, the inference stack routes requests to Blackwell-backed endpoints, Dynamo applies distributed serving and cache optimizations, TensorRT-LLM and SGLang execute the selected model efficiently, and the platform returns lower-latency results from public or dedicated deployments.

Solution architecture

8 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • NVIDIA Blackwell Supplies the latest GPU architecture that improved reasoning-model throughput, memory headroom, and cost efficiency.
    • Google Cloud A4 VMs Host Baseten’s early Blackwell-based production deployments for frontier inference workloads.
    • NVIDIA HGX B200 Runs large reasoning models with the memory and interconnect performance Baseten needed for production-scale inference.
    • NVIDIA CUDA Provides the software foundation that makes GPU nodes across providers and regions behave like a unified pool.
  2. Serving
    • NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM Optimizes model compilation and runtime performance for frontier and custom LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs.
    • SGLang Adds open-source inference optimizations that Baseten integrates alongside NVIDIA’s serving stack.
  3. Orchestration
    • Baseten Inference Stack Provides the orchestration and serving layer that unifies Baseten’s global GPU infrastructure.
    • NVIDIA Dynamo Handles distributed inference features such as disaggregated serving, LLM-aware routing, and KV-cache offloading.

Architecture clues

  • Baseten combines TensorRT-LLM with other open-source engines such as SGLang and also built a custom model builder for faster compilation.
  • Baseten’s multi-cloud capacity management layer provisions thousands of GPUs from a global pool in under five minutes.
  • The platform relies on disaggregated serving, LLM-aware routing, and KV-cache offloading in NVIDIA Dynamo.

Evidence from the source

At the core of this success was Basten’s integration of NVIDIA Dynamo, a low-latency distributed inference serving platform that supports advanced inference optimization techniques such as disaggregated serving, LLM-aware routing, and KV cache offloading to storage.
Baseten can now serve five times as many user requests for custom models with the same number of GPUs.
Baseten developed multi-cloud capacity management (MCM), with the capability to provision thousands of GPUs within less than five minutes.
Baseten reduced latency for serving the largest LLMs like DeepSeek-R1 by up to 38%.
These efforts have boosted throughput by over 60% for Writer’s Palmyra LLMs.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 100/100 reference value · 92% confidence · 2 sources

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Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value100/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    4 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence92%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability23/25
    11 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency9/10
    2 source references document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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  1. NVIDIA

    Baseten customer story

    First-party
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/baseten-cloud-scaling-ai-inference/
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    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Feb 2, 2026
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  2. aVenture

    Baseten - aVenture Company Research

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    https://aventure.vc/companies/baseten-san-francisco-ca-us

    The company profile reports '165 employees'.

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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Feb 2, 2026 · NVIDIA · First-party
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