Cerebras

Cerebras belongs in the database because it occupies a very specific and increasingly important layer in the AI stack: high-speed inference for teams that care about latency, throughput, and production behavior more than generic model-brand familiarity. The checked official inference page positions Cerebras around world-record speed, open-model access, and developer workflows such as coding, reasoning, and agentic use cases. That makes it a serious infrastructure product rather than a thin wrapper around other providers.

It also deserves inclusion because the official pricing surface is commercially legible enough to support a premium buyer-facing entry without inventing certainty that is not there. The checked pricing page publicly exposes a Free path into the inference API, a paid developer path anchored around $50/month and a stated 24 million tokens per day allowance, plus a custom Enterprise path with higher throughput, custom weights, and guaranteed uptime language. That is enough to tell buyers how Cerebras wants to be used: fast experimentation first, then paid developer throughput, then custom production infrastructure.