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Baseten vs Val Town
Val Town
Software Development
The deployment platform for internal tools
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- On request
- Rated
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: Baseten gPU compute is billed per minute by hardware class, from $0.01052 per minute on a T4 up to $0.16633 per minute on a B200, so costs vary by which accelerator a workload lands on, as of August 2026.; Val Town the free tier limits scheduled crons to 15 minute intervals and functions to a 1 minute wall clock time per run; only the $21 per month Pro tier reduces the cron interval to 1 minute, as of August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Baseten and Val Town actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (usage-based), free tier (No), platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Software Development).
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Baseten
- GPU compute is billed per minute by hardware class, from $0.01052 per minute on a T4 up to $0.16633 per minute on a B200, so costs vary by which accelerator a workload lands on, as of August 2026.
Val Town
- The free tier limits scheduled crons to 15 minute intervals and functions to a 1 minute wall clock time per run; only the $21 per month Pro tier reduces the cron interval to 1 minute, as of August 2026.
Pricing, plan by plan
Baseten
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Baseten review.
Val Town
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Val Town review.
Which should you pick?
Choose Baseten if
Nothing in the data separates Baseten from Val Town on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Choose Val Town if
Nothing in the data separates Val Town from Baseten on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Baseten or Val Town better?
- Neither clearly leads. Baseten starts at On request and Val Town at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Baseten or Val Town?
- Baseten starts at On request and Val Town at On request.
- Does Baseten or Val Town run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
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