Inference as a service
A model on an accelerator is not yet a product. Customers expect an API, keys, quotas and an invoice, and without a platform teams spend 12 to 18 months of senior engineering before the first one.
Infer8: an OpenAI-compatible API, tenants and per-customer keys, accelerator-aware routing, async jobs and one metered record per request, with day-2 operations included.
- Every request metered and traceable end to end
- Model and platform rollouts without dropped requests
- Operated around the clock
Engineering considerations
- Bursty image traffic beside long video jobs
- Rollouts that drop no requests
- Metering accurate enough to invoice
Every request, one metered row.
The request path we run in production
- 01GatewayKeys, auth and policy↓
- 02RouterPer-model queues, free-slot gating↓
- 03WorkerThe model on its accelerator↓
- 04MeteringStage-by-stage timing for every request

