Best Infrastructure AI tools

16 infrastructure tools, ranked by our score. Our top pick is Hugging Face, followed by Replicate and Groq. If you want to start without paying, look at Hugging Face, Groq, Ollama. Every score is our own judgement of how well a tool does the job, and you can read how we score on the blog.

1. Hugging Face: The open model hub. Hundreds of thousands of models, datasets and demos in one place. Freemium. Solthar Score 94/100.
2. Replicate: Run any open model with one API call and pay only for the seconds you use. Paid. Solthar Score 90/100.
3. Groq: Custom silicon that runs open models at speeds conventional GPUs do not reach. Freemium. Solthar Score 89/100.
4. Ollama: Run open models locally with one command, on your own machine and your own data. Free. Solthar Score 88/100.
5. OpenRouter: One API and one bill across hundreds of models from every major provider. Paid. Solthar Score 88/100.
6. Together AI: Fast, cheap inference and fine-tuning across a wide catalogue of open models. Paid. Solthar Score 88/100.
7. Weights & Biases: The experiment tracker most ML teams standardised on, now covering LLM apps too. Freemium. Solthar Score 88/100.
8. Modal: Run Python on cloud GPUs by adding a decorator, with no infrastructure to configure. Freemium. Solthar Score 87/100.
9. Pinecone: Managed vector database built for semantic search at production scale. Freemium. Solthar Score 86/100.
10. Fireworks AI: Production inference with fine-tuning, tuned for teams shipping at real volume. Paid. Solthar Score 85/100.
11. LangSmith: Trace, evaluate and debug LLM apps so you can see why an answer went wrong. Freemium. Solthar Score 85/100.
12. LlamaIndex: The framework for connecting your own data to an LLM without rebuilding retrieval. Freemium. Solthar Score 85/100.
13. LM Studio: A desktop app for downloading and chatting with local models, no terminal required. Free. Solthar Score 84/100.
14. Weaviate: Open-source vector database with built-in vectorisation and hybrid search. Freemium. Solthar Score 83/100.
15. Baseten: Deploy and scale custom models with autoscaling GPUs and no Kubernetes. Paid. Solthar Score 82/100.
16. Chroma: The embedded vector database that runs in-process while you are still prototyping. Free. Solthar Score 81/100.

Head-to-head comparisons

• Hugging Face vs Replicate
• Groq vs Hugging Face
• Groq vs Replicate