Co-founded by Tuhin Srivastava, Baseten opened Grid in preview on November 4th, 2026, with Opendoor as its named customer and a claimed nearly 70% benchmark saving.
By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [x.com](https://x.com/baseten/status/2118068540704260170)
Why it matters #
Coding agents turn model choice into a recurring enterprise expense, spread across teams, tools and credentials. Grid gives Baseten a control point above inference that can direct traffic to cheaper models, including its own, while giving platform teams budgets and audit records.
Baseten, the San Francisco AI inference company co-founded by chief executive Tuhin Srivastava, introduced Baseten Grid on November 4th, 2026, as a gateway, routing and guardrails layer for enterprise coding agents. Baseten (@baseten) said in a post on X that Grid routes requests, monitors usage and governs access across coding agents, and the company opened early access through a waitlist.
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