Parasail review

Updated September 28, 2026 · DeployCue Editorial Team · Facts checked September 26, 2026

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Our verdict

Parasail suits developers who want cheap open-weight inference on hardware they pick, with input price of $0.01 to $18.50 and output price of $0.20 to $15. Its OpenAI-compatible API and per minute billing suit small teams that would rather pay for the tokens they use than hold a provider contract.

Key facts

Best for
Low-cost open-weight inference with an OpenAI-compatible API and per minute billing.
Input price from
$0.010 to $18.50 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Output price from
$0.20 to $15 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Models offered
Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.3 Flash, GLM-5.3, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.1, GLM-5, MiniMax M3, MiniMax M2.5, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen3.5 397B-A17B, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, Qwen3-Coder-Next, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B, Qwen3-VL 8B, Qwen3-Next 80B, Qwen3 235B-A22B (2507), Qwen2.5-VL 72B, Mistral Small 3.2 24B, Llama 4 Maverick (FP8), Llama 3.3 70B (FP8), Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B (NVFP4), MiMo v2.5, Resemble TTS (English), Trinity Large (Thinking), Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Gemma 4 31B, Skyfall 31B v4.2, Cydonia 24B v4.1, GPT-OSS-120b, GPT-OSS-120b (Fast), GPT-OSS-20b, UI-TARS 1.5 7B, Gemma 3 27B, Skyfall 36B v2 (FP8), BGE-M3 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Largest context window
1,000,000 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
OpenAI-compatible API
Yes (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Legal entity
Parasail, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Headquarters
United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Support channels
Email, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Official website
parasail.io

GPU cloud

GPU models
NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200, NVIDIA H200, NVIDIA H100 SXM, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000, NVIDIA RTX 5090 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Billing granularity
Per minute (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Interconnect
Cloudflare Worker edge routing plus Cloudflare Tunnel to regional gateways, then direct WireGuard point-to-point private path to the GPU (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Legal entity
Parasail, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Headquarters
United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Support channels
Email, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Pricing model
Hourly billing

Apps and profiles

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Entry input price of $0.01 to $18.50 is below the site input price median, €0.07
  • Largest context window of 1,000,000 matches the site context window median, 1,000,000
  • The API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing client code can be repointed with a base URL change
  • Hardware spans NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200 and NVIDIA H200, from datacenter parts to workstation cards

Cons

  • Entry output price of $0.20 to $15 ranks 32 of 70, so generation-heavy work costs more than the cheapest options
  • Support runs on email, chat and help centre only
  • The catalogue of Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code and Kimi K2.6 leans on open-weight families, so buyers needing hosted frontier models have fewer options
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Who it suits

  • Developers running open-weight models who want to pick the GPU from NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200 and NVIDIA H200
  • Small teams migrating OpenAI code to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  • Long-context workloads, with a ceiling of 1,000,000

Who should look elsewhere

  • Buyers who need OpenAI's own hosted image, video and audio endpoints, who should compare gpt 6 astra, gpt 6 luna and gpt 6 sol at Azure AI Foundry
  • Teams wanting one gateway that already lists Claude, Grok and Gemini alongside DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT 5.6 Sol and GPT 5.6 Terra, where Supascale AI is the closer fit

How it compares on our data

Parasail ranks 21 of 72 on the largest context window, 6 of 71 on entry input price and 32 of 70 on entry output price. The input placing is the stronger of the two, so a token-light workload starts cheaper here than a generation-heavy one. Weights shift as new models land, so treat the spread as a snapshot of the field.

The company behind it

Parasail is operated by Parasail, Inc., headquartered in the United States. Support runs on email, chat and help centre, so most questions are answered in the help centre, in chat, by email or in the community, and contracts and invoicing are handled by the same entity. A team needing a regional entity or a phone line should weigh that against the US base and the listed support routes.

Frequently asked questions

What are the entry prices?+

Entry input price is $0.01 to $18.50 and entry output price is $0.20 to $15, both quoted as token rates on the models Parasail lists. Input sits below the site input price median, €0.07, which makes chat, extraction and routing traffic the cheaper side of a mixed workload.

Which models can I call?+

The catalogue runs to Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code and Kimi K2.6, centred on Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, Llama, Gemma, gpt-oss and Nemotron weights, plus an embedding model and an English text to speech option. Recent Qwen, Llama and Gemma builds sit alongside older Skyfall and Cydonia ones, so a pinned production model usually has a like-for-like open alternative.

How is usage billed?+

GPU work is metered per minute and the pricing model is hourly, so charges scale with the time a model holds the accelerator. That suits bursty traffic and short experiments. A steady always-on workload can still be sized to a particular card from NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200 and NVIDIA H200 rather than a shared pool.

Which GPUs back the endpoints?+

The published fleet is NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200 and NVIDIA H200, spanning datacenter parts and workstation cards in the same list. A team can therefore pick hardware that matches the model it wants to run rather than taking whatever capacity happens to be free, and billing stays per minute either way.

How large a context can I send?+

The largest context window is 1,000,000, equal to the site context window median, 1,000,000, and near the upper end of the field. Long documents, repository-wide code and multi-turn agent traces fit without chunking, on a rank of 21 of 72 among the providers tracked here.

Is the API OpenAI-compatible?+

Yes, the API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing OpenAI client code and SDK settings can be repointed with a base URL change. The catalogue of Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code and Kimi K2.6 is open-weight oriented, which pairs well with teams already serving self-hosted weights, and every listed model is reached through the same endpoint pattern.

How do requests reach the GPU?+

Traffic is routed at the edge to a regional gateway, then carried over a private point-to-point path straight to the GPU instead of crossing the open internet. Parasail describes this as its interconnect design, and it applies to the same NVIDIA B300, NVIDIA B200 and NVIDIA H200 fleet behind the 1,000,000 context ceiling.

Who runs the service and how do I get help?+

The service is provided by Parasail, Inc., a company headquartered in the United States. Support runs on email, chat and help centre, so a help centre lookup, a chat thread, an email or the community forum are the routes in. Contracts, invoicing and data handling questions go to the company directly.

Sources

  • docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/billing/pricing.md checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Pricing model

    “Each dedicated instance costs according to graphics processing unit per hour.”

  • parasail.io/blog/building-sub-second-llm-inference-for-gl... checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Interconnect

    “the gateway takes a direct private path from the authorized gateway to the selected worker over the WireGuard-based mesh ... WireGuard supplies the encrypted point-to-point transport”

  • parasail.io/legal/privacy-policy checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Support channels

    “please send an email to hello@parasail.io”

  • parasail.io/legal/terms-of-service checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Headquarters, Legal entity

    “Parasail, Inc., 4 West 4th Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94402, Attn: CEO”

  • parasail.io/models checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Largest context window, OpenAI-compatible API

    “1M Largest context window”

  • parasail.io/pricing checked September 26, 2026

    Backs: Billing granularity, GPU models, Input price from, Models offered, Output price from

    “Hourly price per GPU, billed by the minute.”

Compiled from 6 source pages, checked September 26, 2026. We did not open an account.

Parasail

Parasail

Low-cost open-weight inference with an OpenAI-compatible API and per minute billing.

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