# How Writer uses Baseten

**35%**: “35% lower cost per million tokens”

As published on [baseten.co](https://www.baseten.co/resources/customers/writer/), July 2024. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-05.

- Company: [Writer](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/writer.md)
- Tool: [Baseten](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/baseten.md)
- Industry: [Marketing Tech](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/marketing-tech-martech.md)
- Teams: Engineering

## What the story says

Writer, a generative AI platform for enterprises, uses Baseten to serve its custom 70-billion-parameter Palmyra language models in production. Baseten's performance engineers built optimized TensorRT-LLM engines for secure, private deployments of the healthcare and finance models.

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

> With TensorRT-LLM engines deployed on Baseten, Writer surpassed its performance requirements ahead of launching the new models.

- **60%**: “60% higher tokens per second”
- **23%**: “23% lower time to first token”

> Inference for custom-built LLMs could be a major headache. Thanks to Baseten, we’re getting cost-effective high-performance model serving without any extra burden on our internal engineering teams. Instead, we get to focus our expertise on creating the best possible domain-specific LLMs for our customers.
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> Waseem Alshikh, CTO and Co-founder

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-05.

- Checked: the figure 35% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Writer.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Writer.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Writer uses Baseten. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-05.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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