# How Patreon uses Baseten

**$600k**: “$600k of resources saved per year”

As published on [baseten.co](https://www.baseten.co/resources/customers/patreon/), September 2023. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-09.

- Company: [Patreon](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/patreon.md)
- Tool: [Baseten](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/baseten.md)

## What the story says

Patreon uses Baseten to deploy and scale the Whisper transcription model, which transcribes audio and video content uploaded by creators and generates closed captions for its native video product. This lets the ML team avoid building and managing the underlying infrastructure themselves.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Baseten and Patreon, not ours.

> In addition, he adds that Baseten is half the price of serving Whisper via OpenAI, while offering fine-grain control and security plus compliance guarantees.

- **440+ hours**: “440+ hours of dev time saved per year”
- **70%**: “70% savings in GPU cost”

> Running our models on Baseten is more cost-effective than anything else in terms of vertical-specific solutions. It’s twice as cheap as the next cheapest solution. That plus their product improvement velocity and ticking the right compliance markers for us made working with Baseten the perfect partnership.
>
> Nikhil Harithas, Senior ML Engineer

Source: [baseten.co](https://www.baseten.co/resources/customers/patreon/), captured 2026-10-09.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-09.

- Checked: the figure $600k is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Patreon.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Patreon.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Patreon uses Baseten. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-09.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/patreon-baseten · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology