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Which platforms are best for hosting open-weight models behind an API?

Which brands each model API named when asked this question, and which pages it cited. Answer text is not published.
Snapshot Sep 10, 2026. Each category is re-run in rotation, every few weeks.

Recommendation

Kind of question

3

Model APIs

6

Brands named

11

Pages cited

Brands

Brands the answers named

Ordered by how many model APIs named the brand, then by mentions. A mention is not an endorsement or a position.
Rank#BrandModel APIsMentionsOwn-site citationsNamed by
1Hugging Facehuggingface.co231OpenAI · Google
2Mistral AImistral.ai230OpenAI · Google
3Together AItogether.ai230OpenAI · Google
4Fireworks AIfireworks.ai221OpenAI · Google
5Groqgroq.com110Google
6OpenAIopenai.com110OpenAI

Model APIs

What each model API returned

One row per model API. The hash identifies the exact answer without publishing it.
Model APIModelBrands namedCitationsDomainsAnswer hash
OpenAIopenai/gpt-4o-miniOpenAI · Mistral AI · Together AI · Fireworks AI · Hugging Face445388bbe1…5f26c
Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-4-5None named0041f1fe13…3763e
Googlegoogle/gemini-2.5-flashMistral AI · Together AI · Groq · Fireworks AI · Hugging Face8866ec1e8b…6b892

Sources

Pages the answers cited

Hostnames come from the URLs the answers returned. Best position is the earliest place a page was cited in an answer.
DomainCited pageBest positionCited byCitations
blog.gopenai.comhttps://blog.gopenai.com/open-weight-models-vs-api-only-llms-663ad9895ab31Google1
whatllm.orghttps://whatllm.org/best-open-source-llm1OpenAI1
siliconflow.comhttps://siliconflow.com/articles/the-best-api-providers-of-open-source-llm2OpenAI · Google2
llmapi.aihttps://llmapi.ai/best-open-source-llm-hosting-providers/2Google1
bentoml.comhttps://bentoml.com/blog/navigating-the-world-of-open-source-large-language-models3OpenAI1
fireworks.aihttps://fireworks.ai/blog/best-llm-api-providers4Google1
thundercompute.comhttps://thundercompute.com/blog/best-open-source-llms4OpenAI1
cloud.ionos.comhttps://cloud.ionos.com/managed/ai-model-hub5Google1
truefoundry.comhttps://truefoundry.com/blog/self-hosted-open-weight-models-gateway6Google1
huggingface.cohttps://huggingface.co/blog/daya-shankar/open-source-llm-models-to-run-locally7Google1
youtube.comhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=pWtDTkfNaUU8Google1
Snapshots
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Question set
ai-model-api-platforms-2026-07-26
Benchmark version
4-ai-model-api-platforms-2026-07-26-models-64232fd32583
What is kept
Measured in Brands. Full answers are not stored or published, and no customer data is included.

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