Fireworks AI

fireworks.ai · San Francisco, United States of America

Fireworks is an AI infrastructure company that provides a cloud platform for deploying, fine‑tuning, and serving large language models and other generative AI models. It targets software companies and enterprises that want low-latency, cost-efficient inference and customization without managing their own GPU infrastructure. The company generates revenue through usage-based and subscription pricing for its hosted APIs and managed model services.

  • MLOps & ML Platforms
  • Generative AI Platforms
  • Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting
Revenue
$4.0M
Employees
55
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States of America

What 180 Arbolus experts think of Fireworks AI

75% of NPS scores are 8 or higher, with multiple 10 scores from both Users and Influencers, indicating strong advocacy. Renewal intent is positive among high and mid spenders, especially for production workloads in finance, tech, and e-commerce. 30% of Users are in advanced or more-than-one-year implementation stages, correlating with high satisfaction; pilot-stage and less-than-one-year Users still rate sentiment positively but show more caution or "not sure" intent. Common qualitative themes are praise for fast inference, cost savings, ease of integration, and scalability; main concerns are around documentation, model availability lag, and occasional rate limits. Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed Fireworks AI

Total customers 180 174 current · 6 former
Reviews growth +175 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 43% (77)
  • Director 15% (27)
  • Manager 42% (76)
Product Leader Director NPS 9 Undecided
Engineering Leader C-Suite NPS 8
Generalist Generalist Not specified NPS 7

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Sentiment

42 Net Promoter Score, from 180 scored reviews
  • Promoters 92
  • Passives 72
  • Detractors 16

Cumulative NPS by month

+0 over 6 months
  • Apr 8
  • May 8
  • Jul 8
  • Aug 8
  • Sep 8
  • Oct 8

Net Promoter Score across 12 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 44 across 12 companies.

Praised

  • Developer Experience and Integration
  • Cost Efficiency and Model Flexibility
  • Performance and Speed
  • Model and Feature Breadth

Criticised

  • Model Availability Lag and API Reliability
  • Competitive Model and Price Pressure
  • Compliance and Data Sovereignty Gaps
  • Rate Limits and Traffic Handling

What customers say

Developer Experience and Integration
“Developer experience is strong—the API is simple, and moving from serverless to dedicated deployments is very smooth, so teams can iterate or scale easily.”
Cost Efficiency and Model Flexibility
“The biggest advantage with Fireworks is performance-to-cost efficiency for open models, making it easy to get great latency and scalability without managing our own infrastructure.”
Performance and Speed
“In my personal experience, Fireworks handles concurrent requests much better than alternatives, delivering excellent latency and throughput in production.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 67%
  • Will renew 38
  • Undecided 16
  • Not renewing 3

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 54% 26 answers
  • Director 91% 11 answers
  • Manager 71% 14 answers
  • Not specified 67% 6 answers
  • 8.7/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 7.4/10 Average score from undecided customers
  • 6/10 Average score from customers not renewing

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