BaseRT

BaseRT

Base Compute
Photon

Photon

Moondream
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About

BaseRT is a high-performance LLM inference runtime for Apple Silicon that lets developers pull models from Hugging Face, chat with them locally, or serve an OpenAI-compatible API from one CLI. Accelerated by hand-written Metal kernels, it is designed to deliver fast prefill and decode performance on M-series Macs, with published benchmarks showing up to 6.4× faster prefill than llama.cpp, 3.9× faster than MLX, and up to 1.33× faster decode. The basert CLI handles model downloading, conversion, interactive chat, serving, completion, benchmarking, inspection, and bundle signing. Its server supports chat, completions, embeddings, transcription, tool calls, continuous batching, paged KV caching, and prefix caching, while supported models can process text, vision, and audio. BaseRT uses its own .base model format with Q2–Q8 affine quantization, optional AWQ calibration, and signed bundles, and can convert GGUF, Hugging Face, and MLX checkpoints.

About

Photon is Moondream’s official high-performance inference engine, designed to run vision-language models efficiently across cloud, desktop, and edge environments while delivering real-time performance for production AI systems. It is built as a custom inference layer tightly integrated with the Moondream model architecture, using optimized scheduling, native image processing, and purpose-built CUDA kernels to maximize speed and efficiency. This co-designed approach allows Photon to significantly reduce latency compared to traditional VLM setups, enabling responsive interactions on edge devices and real-time throughput on server-grade hardware. It supports deployment across a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs, from embedded systems like Jetson devices to high-end multi-GPU servers, making it adaptable for diverse operational needs. It includes production-ready features such as automatic batching, prefix caching, and memory-efficient attention mechanisms.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

AI infrastructure engineers who need fast, private local model inference and an OpenAI-compatible backend for applications and coding agents

Audience

AI engineers and computer vision teams who need to deploy real-time, high-performance vision-language models across cloud, edge, and on-prem environments

Support

Phone Support
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Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
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API

Offers API

API

Offers API

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Pricing

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Pricing

$300 per month
Free Version
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Training

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Company Information

Base Compute
Founded: 2026
Australia
www.basecompute.co/getbasert

Company Information

Moondream
Founded: 2024
United States
moondream.ai/p/photon

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Alternatives

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Gemma 3
Gemma 4
Hugging Face
Lens
Llama 3.1
Llama 3.2
Mistral AI
Moondream
NVIDIA Jetson
OpenAI
Phi-3
Qwen3
Qwen3.5
Qwen3.6

Integrations

Gemma 3
Gemma 4
Hugging Face
Lens
Llama 3.1
Llama 3.2
Mistral AI
Moondream
NVIDIA Jetson
OpenAI
Phi-3
Qwen3
Qwen3.5
Qwen3.6
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