Why Choose Featherless
The only provider offering cost, speed, and choice without compromise
Featherless is a serverless provider with unique model loading and GPU orchestration abilities that allows us to keep an exceptionally large catalog of models online.
Other providers either offer low cost of access (e.g. openrouter, AWS bedrock) but with a limited set of models, or an unlimited range of models (e.g. runpod) but with users managing servers and the associated costs of operation (e.g. > $2/hour for sufficient GPUs to run a 70B model).
Featherless provides the best of both worlds offering unmatched model range and variety but with serverless pricing.
Provider | Cost | Speed | Choice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
runpod | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (thousands) | |
hugging face inference | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (thousands) | |
anthropic | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (<10 models) | |
openrouter | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (~200 models) | |
Featherless | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (thousands) |
About Us
Research Side
Our research team has achieved groundbreaking advances in AI architecture and performance. We successfully built the world's largest AI model without transformer attention, delivering inference costs that are 1000 times cheaper while maintaining performance comparable to existing transformer models. This breakthrough has allowed us to dramatically reduce AI architecture validation costs for 70B class models, cutting expenses from $5 million down to just $50,000. Additionally, we've developed what we believe to be the world's most reliable AI agent for web tasks, outperforming leading models including Gemini, Claude 4, and GPT-4o, with productionization coming soon.
Commercialization Side
On the commercial front, we've revolutionized AI accessibility by reducing inference costs by over 10 times across all AI models, enabling us to offer unlimited AI requests starting at just $75 per month. Our business has demonstrated remarkable growth with 30% ARR month-over-month expansion. Looking ahead, we're preparing for a major milestone next month when we launch as the default and exclusive model provider for 99% of Hugging Face. This partnership will position us to host over 10,000 models, a massive scale-up considering that all other providers combined currently host only 130 models