Provider Dossier · Aggregator
Fireworks AI
Low-latency serving stack and strong function-calling support.
The Datum Index verdict
Highly commended
Ranked No. 6 of 20 in our composite reputation index, and currently improving.
≈ 4.3 / 5 aggregate · 388 reviewer notes
Composite index · reviewed 10 July 2026
Findings
- Fireworks AI holds a Datum Index composite reputation of 85 / 100 (≈ 4.3 / 5), ranked No. 6 of 20.
- It is a aggregator based in Redwood City, USA, founded 2022, offering open-weight model access.
- Its flagship offering is FireAttention-served open models, exposed through an OpenAI-compatible API.
- Indicative pricing is $0.90 / 1M tokens in / $0.90 / 1M tokens out (medium confidence).
- Reference throughput is ~145 tok/s with ~300 ms time-to-first-token; stated uptime is 99.7%.
Fireworks AI enters our index at No. 6, a placement that reads as highly commended. The composite rests on 388 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 pointed upward: reviewer sentiment has strengthened 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
Low-latency serving stack and strong function-calling support.
On the numbers that flatter it: open-weight access, 3 named compliance attestations, and a reference throughput of ~145 tokens per second.
Points of concern
Smaller catalog than the largest aggregators.
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
Fireworks AI states an availability of 99.7%. Held over a full year, that headline implies on the order of 26.3 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
| Category | Aggregator |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Redwood City, USA |
| Founded | 2022 |
| Model access | Open-weight |
| Flagship / reference | FireAttention-served open models · Llama 3.3 70B |
| OpenAI-compatible API | Yes |
| Indicative price (in / out) | $0.90 / 1M tokens / $0.90 / 1M tokens medium |
| Reference throughput | ~145 tok/s |
| Reference TTFT | ~300 ms |
| Stated uptime | 99.7% |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II · HIPAA · GDPR |
| Composite reputation | 85 / 100 · ≈ 4.3 / 5 · 388 notes |
Reviewer Notes
What the field says
The 388 notes behind Fireworks AI'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: Low-latency serving stack and strong function-calling support. Detractors return to another: Smaller catalog than the largest aggregators.
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.
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