📖 The AI Tool Bible

Fine-tuning

Train and host custom models on your own data.

33 tools

Why it matters

Fine-tuning has gone from "deep ML team only" to "a few hours of JSONL away" — but the choice between closed-model FT (OpenAI), open-model FT (Together, Modal), and memory-tuning matters more than ever.

What's in here

Covers closed-model fine-tuning (OpenAI), open-model FT + serving (Together AI, Replicate, Modal), distributed training platforms (Anyscale), and specialised platforms (Lamini for factual recall).

How to pick

Pick OpenAI for the easiest UX on closed models. Pick Together AI for open-model FT + serving in one place. Pick Modal for serverless GPU control. Pick Lamini specifically for hallucination-free factual recall.

Together AI

Featured
Fine-tuning · Llama / Mistral / Qwen / DeepSeek and others
8.6

Fine-tune & serve open-weight models (Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek).

Paid· Pay-per-token; fine-tuning per-tokenopen modelsfine-tuning

Modal

Fine-tuning · Infrastructure (any model you can host)
8.7

Serverless GPUs and infra for training & serving ML.

Freemium· $30/mo free credits; pay-as-you-go GPU ratesserverless GPUfine-tuning

Replicate

Fine-tuning · Thousands of community + first-party models
8.5

One-API platform for running and fine-tuning open-source models.

Paid· Pay-per-second of GPU timemodel hostingfine-tuning

OpenAI Fine-tuning

Fine-tuning · GPT-4o-mini / GPT-3.5
8.4

Fine-tune GPT-4o-mini and friends on your own data.

Paid· Training $25/1M tokens; inference at standard ratesstyleformat

Llama

Fine-tuning · Llama 4 (Maverick, Scout), Llama 3.3/3.2/3.1
8.3

Meta's open-weight LLM family covering 1B mobile models up to 405B frontier and natively multimodal 10M-context Llama 4 variants.

Freemium· Weights free under Llama Community License; partner API inference ~$0.19-$0.49 per 1M tokensself-hosted-llmfine-tuning

RunPod

Fine-tuning · Bring-your-own (any open-weight or custom model)
8.3

On-demand GPU cloud and serverless inference platform built specifically for AI workloads.

Paid· Pay-per-second GPU rental; H100 from ~$1.89/hr, consumer GPUs from ~$0.20/hrllm-fine-tuninggpu-rental

vLLM

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (open-weight LLMs: Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, etc.)
8.3

Open-source high-throughput inference engine for serving LLMs with PagedAttention and continuous batching.

Free· Free and open-source (Apache 2.0); self-hosted infrastructure costs applyllm-servingself-hosted-inference

CoreWeave

Fine-tuning
8.2

AI-native GPU cloud built for large-scale training, fine-tuning, and inference on NVIDIA hardware.

Enterprise· Contact sales; Capacity Plans with reserved GPU commitmentsmodel-trainingfine-tuning

Ludwig

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (PyTorch + HuggingFace Transformers)
8.2

Declarative, YAML-driven deep learning framework for fine-tuning LLMs and multi-modal models without writing training loops.

Free· Free, Apache 2.0 open sourcellm-fine-tuningmulti-modal-training

OpenPipe

Fine-tuning · Llama, Mistral, Qwen and other open-weight base models
8.2

Fine-tuning and reinforcement learning platform for turning expensive prompts into cheap, fast, task-specific models.

Freemium· Free tier available; usage-based pricing for training and hosted inference; enterprise plans on requestllm-cost-reductionfine-tuning

SGLang

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Mistral, GLM, GPT-OSS)
8.2

Open-source high-throughput inference engine for LLMs and multimodal models with OpenAI-compatible serving.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache 2.0); self-hosted infra cost onlyllm-servingmultimodal-inference

Unsloth

Fine-tuning · Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Qwen, GLM (multi-model)
8.2

Open-source LLM fine-tuning toolkit with custom kernels that train 2-30x faster and use up to 90% less VRAM.

Freemium· Free open-source; Pro and Enterprise contact saleslora-finetuningqlora

Hugging Face AutoTrain

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (Hugging Face Hub)
8.1

No-code fine-tuning and training pipeline that spins up state-of-the-art models on the Hugging Face Hub.

Paid· Per-minute billing based on hardware tier; self-hosted OSS version is freellm-fine-tuningtext-classification

Lambda

Fine-tuning · NVIDIA VR200 NVL72, NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, NVIDIA HGX B200, NVIDIA HGX B300, NVIDIA H100
8.1

On-demand NVIDIA GPU cloud built specifically for training, fine-tuning, and serving large AI models.

Paid· Pay-by-the-minute: A100 from $1.29/hr, H100 SXM from $3.99/hr, B200 from $6.69/hr; clusters priced by quotellm-trainingfine-tuning

Optuna

Fine-tuning
8.1

Open-source Python framework for automated hyperparameter optimization across any ML stack.

Free· Free and open source (MIT)hyperparameter-tuningml-experiment-tracking

Ray Tune

Fine-tuning
8.1

Open-source Python library for distributed hyperparameter tuning at any scale.

Free· Open-source (Apache 2.0); managed via Anyscale offers a $100 starting credithyperparameter-tuningdistributed-training

Together AI Fine-tuning

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (any Hugging Face open-source model)
8.1

Managed fine-tuning platform for open-source LLMs and vision models with LoRA, full fine-tuning, and RL support.

Paid· Usage-based; cost estimator in-product, no public price listllm-fine-tuningvision-fine-tuning

Edge Impulse

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (TF Lite Micro, custom DSP blocks)
8.0

End-to-end platform for training and deploying ML models on microcontrollers, sensors, and other edge hardware.

Freemium· Free developer tier; paid Professional and Enterprise plans (contact sales)edge-aitinyml

Anyscale

Fine-tuning · Infrastructure (any model)
7.9

Ray-powered platform for training, serving, and scaling LLMs.

Paid· Enterprise / contact salesdistributed trainingRay

Fireworks AI

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Gemma, Minimax, others)
7.9

Production inference and fine-tuning platform for open-source LLMs, tuned for speed and enterprise economics.

Freemium· Free signup credits; pay-per-token from ~$0.14/M in; enterprise reserved capacity on requestllm-fine-tuningserverless-inference

Lamini

Fine-tuning · Lamini (built on open base models)
7.7

Memory-tuning platform for grounding LLMs in your facts.

Paid· Enterprise / contact salesenterprise FTfactual recall

FedML

Fine-tuning · Bring-your-own (PyTorch, Hugging Face)
7.3

Distributed training, fine-tuning, and serving platform with federated learning roots.

Freemium· Open-source library free; managed GPU usage pay-as-you-gofine-tuningdistributed-training

Pachyderm

Fine-tuning
7.3

Kubernetes-native data versioning and pipeline engine for reproducible ML at petabyte scale.

Freemium· Open-source community edition free; Enterprise via HPE salesdata-versioningml-pipelines

LLaMA Factory

Fine-tuning · Multi-model (LLaMA, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, Phi, LLaVA, ChatGLM, Yi)
7.2

Open-source, no-code WebUI for fine-tuning 100+ open LLMs with LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, and PPO.

Free· Free, open-source (Apache-2.0); self-hostedlora-fine-tuningqlora