About
Clarifai is an AI platform for deploying, serving, and managing models with a focus on fast inference and reasoning on GPUs. It supports serverless and dedicated compute, OpenAI-compatible APIs, custom model uploads, and deployment options for local, hybrid, VPC, and on-prem environments.
The platform is designed for developers and enterprises that need low-latency model inference, multimodal AI support, and flexible infrastructure control. It also includes tools for model training, evaluation, vector search, and agentic workflows through MCP servers and local AI runners.
- Fast GPU inference and reasoning for language, vision, multimodal, and code models
- Serverless, dedicated, hybrid-cloud, VPC, on-prem, and air-gapped deployment options
- OpenAI-compatible APIs for easier migration and integration
- Custom model upload, training, evaluation, and export workflows
- Support for local AI runners and MCP servers for agentic applications
Free Tier Value
Clarifai’s pricing page explicitly advertises a free 14-day trial, so this is a free_trial listing and the value should be prorated from the cheapest paid plan. The cheapest paid plan shown is Pay As You Go with no monthly commitment, so per the rule the monthly value is computed as plan price × (14/30); however no concrete monthly price is provided, so the conservative FTV is null rather than fabricated. Feature parity is high because the trial is positioned around the full platform and inference stack, but the page does not explicitly confirm no-credit-card signup, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- Limited monthly requests for the Community plan.
- 1 request per second throughput limit.
- Access to SaaS deployment only.
- Access to Local Dev deployment only.
- Serverless NVIDIA GPU access.
- Custom model training unavailable in the free tier.
- Pre-trained model access included.
- Batch requests included.
- Realtime bi-directional streaming included.
- GPU fractioning included.
- Scale-to-zero included.
- Spot instances included.
- Model evaluation included.
- Model upload included.
- Model export included.
- Dataset management included.
- Vector search included.
- Automated data labeling included.
See Clarifai pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pay As You Go
- monthly requests
- 100,000
- requests per second
- 100
- Full platform access
- Run models directly or via dedicated compute instance
- Clarifai Reasoning Engine
- Promotional access to Local Runners
- Up to 100 requests per second
Enterprise
- monthly requests
- Unlimited
- requests per second
- 1000+
- Unlimited API calls
- SaaS or private control plane
- Multi-cloud and multi-region compute planes
- Optional air-gapped deployments and private data planes
- Full model exports and leaderboards
- Custom rate limits
- Multiple Organizations
- Role-based access and Teams
Pricing extracted from Clarifai's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
