The reputation index for AI infrastructure Vol. I · No. 1 · 10 July 2026

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Provider Dossier · Aggregator

DeepInfra

Aggressive per-token pricing on popular open models.

The Datum Index verdict

Recommended with confidence

Ranked No. 14 of 20 in our composite reputation index, and currently holding steady.

81 / 100

≈ 4.1 / 5 aggregate · 305 reviewer notes

Composite index · reviewed 10 July 2026

Findings

  1. DeepInfra holds a Datum Index composite reputation of 81 / 100 (≈ 4.1 / 5), ranked No. 14 of 20.
  2. It is a aggregator based in Palo Alto, USA, founded 2022, offering open-weight model access.
  3. Its flagship offering is Pay-per-token open models, exposed through an OpenAI-compatible API.
  4. Indicative pricing is $0.35 / 1M tokens in / $0.40 / 1M tokens out (medium confidence).
  5. Reference throughput is ~110 tok/s with ~360 ms time-to-first-token; stated uptime is 99.5%.
Figure · Dossier No. 14 Standing relative to the field
  • DeepInfra 81
  • Field mean (20 providers) 83
  • Index leader (OpenAI) 91
Composite index (0–100), ranked No. 14 of 20. Source: Datum Index, reviewed 10 July 2026. Editorial composite — indicative, not a measured benchmark.

DeepInfra enters our index at No. 14, a placement that reads as recommended with confidence. The composite rests on 305 reviewer notes gathered across the public record, and it is best understood not as a score out of ten but as a standing among peers. The trend line is flat: reviewer sentiment has held steady over recent quarters.

Read what follows as an editorial assessment rather than a datasheet. Where a figure below carries a seed mark, treat it as an illustration of the shape of the offering, not a quotable fact.

In its favour

Aggressive per-token pricing on popular open models.

On the numbers that flatter it: open-weight access, 2 named compliance attestations, and a reference throughput of ~110 tokens per second.

Points of concern

Fewer enterprise features than larger platforms.

The caveat a buyer should price in before committing production traffic. As with every entry, we weigh it against the field rather than against perfection.

Incident & Uptime Note

The record of being there

DeepInfra states an availability of 99.5%. Held over a full year, that headline implies on the order of 43.8 hours of cumulative unavailability — a useful sense of scale, though real incidents cluster rather than spread evenly, and a single bad afternoon can outweigh a quiet quarter.

Datum Index does not operate first-party probes. Uptime here is drawn from the provider's own status disclosures and the public incident record; it is a reputation input, not an SLA. Where a provider publishes a status page, we recommend watching it directly before committing critical traffic.

Key Facts

The record, in brief

CategoryAggregator
HeadquartersPalo Alto, USA
Founded2022
Model accessOpen-weight
Flagship / referencePay-per-token open models · Llama 3.3 70B
OpenAI-compatible APIYes
Indicative price (in / out) $0.35 / 1M tokens / $0.40 / 1M tokens medium
Reference throughput~110 tok/s
Reference TTFT~360 ms
Stated uptime99.5%
ComplianceSOC 2 Type II · GDPR
Composite reputation 81 / 100 · ≈ 4.1 / 5 · 305 notes

Reviewer Notes

What the field says

The 305 notes behind DeepInfra's standing are drawn from the accumulated public verdict of practitioners — the recurring praises and the recurring gripes — rather than from any single survey. Two themes dominate. Admirers return to one point above all: Aggressive per-token pricing on popular open models. Detractors return to another: Fewer enterprise features than larger platforms.

We publish neither individual reviews nor reviewer identities; the composite is an editorial synthesis, and the reviewer-note count is an order-of-magnitude indication of how much public signal informs it.

Cross-references

Related dossiers · see also

Peer entries in the same or adjacent category, for comparison against DeepInfra's standing.

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