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Agent infrastructure: vector DBs, inference, observability, and search.

agent_infra is what builders touch when they're wiring up RAG, an agent loop, or an LLM application. Magpie covers the vector DB layer (Pinecone), inference (Together AI, Groq, Hugging Face), observability (Helicone, Langfuse), web search APIs (Tavily), and self-hostable model runners (Ollama, Replicate). Picks favour OSS-first or generous free-tier pricing over enterprise contracts.

20 tools in this category. Curated and scored by Magpie's six-dimension rubric.

Jack Phillips
Audited by Jack Phillips · Updated June 19, 2026

20 tools

  • PyTorch

    Open-source machine-learning framework

    Agent infrastructureConsider with caveats
    Score
    3.7
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Ollama

    The easiest way to run open language models locally

    Agent infrastructureConsider with caveats
    Score
    3.6
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Solopreneur → MVP
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Pinecone

    Reference vector database for RAG and semantic search — Starter tier is free up to 2GB

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.4
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Hugging Face

    The model hub the open-source AI ecosystem runs on — free Spaces, $9 PRO, $20/user Team

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.3
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Solopreneur → Growth
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Speechify TTS API (Simba)

    Simba TTS API at 300ms latency and $10 per 1M chars

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.3
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Seed → Growth
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Pydantic AI

    Type-safe Python agent framework

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.2
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    MCPFree tier
  • Replicate

    Run, fine-tune, and deploy AI models with one line of code

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.2
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Fireworks AI

    Fast, low-cost inference for open-source models

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.1
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Groq

    Sub-second LPU inference — Llama 3.1 8B at 840 tokens/sec for $0.05/M input

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.1
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Solopreneur → Seed
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • LangChain

    Open-source framework for building LLM applications

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.1
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Modal

    Serverless GPU compute for AI builders

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    3.1
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Llama

    Meta's open-weights family of foundation models

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.9
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Helicone

    Open-source LLM observability — 10K free requests, OpenAI/Anthropic/Together drop-in proxy

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.8
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Solopreneur → Seed
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Langfuse

    Open-source LLM observability and evals — Hobby tier free, $29/mo Core, self-hostable

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.8
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Tavily

    Web search API designed for AI agents — 1,000 free credits/mo, $0.008/credit PAYG

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.8
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    Solopreneur → MVP
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Together AI

    Cheap, fast inference for open models — Llama 3.3 70B at $0.88 per million tokens

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.8
    Pricing
    n/a
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    API
  • Gemma

    Google's open-weights model family

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.7
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • Qwen

    Alibaba's open-weights language model family

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.7
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    n/a
    Features
    APIFree tier
  • BabyAGI

    Experimental self-building autonomous agent framework

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    2.3
    Pricing
    Free
    Stage
    MVP → Growth
    Features
    Free tier
  • SubQ

    Sub-quadratic LLM for 12M-token reasoning

    Agent infrastructure
    Score
    1.7
    Pricing
    Contact
    Stage
    Seed → Growth
    Features
    API

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