Developers and enterprises that need the fastest possible LLM token generation speed.

Cerebras Inference is a hosted API serving open models like Llama and GPT-OSS on Cerebras's wafer-scale engine hardware for very high tokens-per-second throughput.

Accessed via Cerebras's cloud API, with the direct self-serve API deprecating in August 2026 in favor of partner-hosted access.

Launched pay-per-token access in 2024, with continued model additions through 2026.

It exists to serve latency-sensitive applications that need real-time, high-speed LLM responses.

Offered through an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API and via inference partner platforms.

SaaS, proprietary, requires an API key; free, developer, and enterprise tiers; note direct API deprecation date of Aug 17 2026 with migration to partner APIs; data processed on Cerebras cloud.