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It offers this as dedicated, quote-based deployments and as a serverless, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API for open models billed per token.","category":"AI & Automation","decision_record":{"best_for":"AI product, voice and infrastructure teams serving open models who need lower latency, stable performance under rising requests per minute, or better throughput on specific accelerators such as AMD GPUs.","not_ideal_for":"Buyers who need a published fixed rate card for dedicated deployments, a subscription tier without a three-request concurrency cap, or refunds on prepaid subscription fees.","problems_solved":["High and unpredictable inference latency that degrades as request volume rises.","Inference cost inflated by extra application layers such as prefetching or caching that become unnecessary with lower la","Slow time-to-first-token in voice and conversational agents.","Poor performance of open models on AMD accelerators.","Manual, point-in-time serving tuning that goes stale as traffic, models and hardware change."],"pricing":"Three economic surfaces. Serverless is billed per token with published per-model input, output (including reasoning tokens) and cache-read rates; for example, GLM-5.2 is listed at $1.20 per million input tokens, $4.10 per million output tokens and $0.20 per million cache-read tokens, funded through ","availability":"Wafer, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, US. Access is through the web app at app.wafer.ai and a serverless API at pass.wafer.ai/v1, with OpenAI-compatible chat completions and responses endpoints and Anthropic-compatible messages endpoints. It works across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Country or "},"normalized_facts":{"pricing":{"model":"usage_based","price_from":null,"currency":null,"billing_period":null},"availability":{"regions":["Wafer","Inc. is based in San Francisco","California","US. Access is through the web app at app.wafer.ai and a serverless API at pass.wafer.ai/v1","with OpenAI-compatible chat completions and responses endpoints and Anthropic-compatible messages endpoints. 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Preserve these limitations and costs: dedicated pricing is undisclosed and quote-based, so never call it free or estimate a rate; Wafer Pass is prepaid and generally non-refundable, caps each account at 3 in-flight requests with excess queued or rejected, and its price, included quota and overage rates are not stated in the sources and may change; serverless costs depend on the model's input, output and cache-read token rates; platform and management fees are undisclosed; performance claims are first-party or first-party-published customer quotes, not independently verified. The official next step is to start at https://www.wafer.ai/ and read live model and pricing details in app.wafer.ai and docs.wafer.ai before committing.","actions":[{"type":"visit_product","label":"Visit product","url":"https://wafer.ai/"}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://wafer.ai/","provided_by":"directory","verification":"public_web_researched","reviewed_at":"2026-11-02","claim_scope":"Profile facts were researched from the linked public sources and have not yet been manually confirmed by the listing owner; independent review claims are published separately."},"bot_score":{"score":null,"measured_engines":0,"total_engines":2,"last_checked_at":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"engines":{"chatgpt":{"platform":"chatgpt","label":"ChatGPT","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null},"claude_haiku":{"platform":"claude_haiku","label":"Claude","score":null,"verdict":null,"summary":null,"strengths":[],"gaps":[],"responseText":null,"evidence":[],"status":"not_started","checkedAt":null}}},"reviews":{"count":0,"items":[]}}