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Fireworks is a drop-in OpenAI-compatible inference provider with a signature train-to-serve loop. It is the closest thing to what we do — the honest difference is breadth of the GPU lineup and the maturity of the deploy loop, which is where Fireworks is ahead today.
| Capability | runaii | Fireworks |
|---|---|---|
| Serverless per-token APIs | Available: Growing catalog | Available: Frontier loop |
| OpenAI-compatible | Available: + Anthropic | Available: Drop-in |
| Dedicated Blackwell GPUs | Available: B200/B300/GB300 | Available: On-demand |
| Training → deploy loop | Partial: Demo (beta) | Available: Signature loop |
| Root-access GPU VMs | Available: Per-second | Not offered |
| Free tier | Available: $5 credits | Partial: Usage |
| Per-GPU pages | Available: /gpus + here | Available: Demos |
| Status + changelog | Available: /status | Available: Status |
Moving an OpenAI SDK client is a base-URL and model-id change — the migration walkthrough is one diff. A first request is in the quickstart, and the rates are on /pricing.
The full 7-way table, with every provider's source, is on /compare.
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