Baseten CEO: token volume grew 40x YoY while revenue grew ~10x in 12 months
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-21
Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava shared two striking numbers on Alex Heath's Sources Podcast: token volume on the inference platform has grown 40x year-over-year, while revenue has grown roughly 10x over the past 12 months.
The gap suggests AI inference demand is exploding far faster than monetization — token consumption is scaling exponentially even as per-token prices keep falling. It's rare first-party data from a third-party inference provider on the state of the inference economy.
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