All Banana.dev Plans & Pricing

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Team

Sunset

  • Service discontinued as of March 31, 2024
  • Previously offered pay-per-second GPU inference
  • Previously supported custom model deployment
  • Previously offered pass-through GPU pricing
  • See alternatives: Replicate, Modal, Baseten, Cerebrium

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Team$14K/yr
SunsetCustom
EnterpriseCustom
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Banana.dev costs $1.2K to $1.2K per month as of October 2026, with 3 plans available. Plan: Team at $1.2K/month. Custom pricing is available on request. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.

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Banana.dev offers 3 pricing tiers: Team, Sunset, Enterprise. Paid plans include Team at $1.2K/month. The Sunset plan is historical reference only — service is no longer available.

Compared to other ai model hosting & inference software, Banana.dev is positioned at the premium price point.

  • 5 documented hidden costs beyond list price

How much does Banana.dev cost?

Banana.dev Team costs $1,200/mo. Enterprise pricing is quote-based. Plans include Team at $1200/month, Sunset (custom pricing), Enterprise (custom pricing).

Banana.dev Pricing Overview

Banana.dev has 3 pricing plans ranging from $1,200 to $1,200/month. The Team plan costs $1,200/month. The Sunset plan requires contacting sales for a custom quote and is designed for historical reference only — service is no longer available. The Enterprise plan requires contacting sales for a custom quote.

Banana.dev with a No minimum commitment minimum commitment.

There are at least 5 documented hidden costs beyond Banana.dev's list price, including implementation, training, and add-on fees.

This pricing was last verified in July 25, 2026 from 1 independent source.

Banana.dev was a serverless GPU inference platform for ML models, offering pay-per-second billing for model inference including cold-start (boot) time. The platform charged pass-through GPU pricing with no markup, targeting cost-conscious ML teams. Banana.dev shut down its infrastructure on March 31, 2024, citing unsustainable economics during the GPU supply crunch of 2023-2024. Teams that used Banana.dev have migrated to alternatives such as Replicate, Modal, Baseten, and Cerebrium.

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Top pricing complaints
Bugginess in production environments, leading to issues such as very long cold boots, erroring requests, and consistently hitting capacity limits.High costs associated with "always-on" GPUs, particularly for users with variable or spiky usage patterns, leading to underutilization and wasted expenditure.Poor customer support from existing GPU hosting providers, including unresponsiveness to requests for increased GPU quotas and slow resolution of support tickets.

How Banana.dev Pricing Compares

Software Starting Price Top Price
Banana.dev $1200/month $1200/month
Baseten Custom Custom
BentoML Free $5000/month
Cerebrium Free $100/month
Banana.dev (rebranded) $1200/mo + at-cost compute $1200/mo + at-cost compute
Inference.net Free $250/forever

5 Banana.dev Hidden Costs Beyond the List Price

Beyond the listed price, Banana.dev has at least 5 documented hidden costs that can significantly increase total cost of ownership.

Watch for 5 hidden costs
  • Egress Fees for Model Downloads 5-20% of license costs
    medium 1 source
    Hacker News “egress fees to download model... It was frequently cheaper to use more expensive GPUs w/ better location and network speeds. That factored more into the pricing than how long the actual inference took on each instance.”
  • Model Storage Costs 5-10% of license costs
    low 1 source
    Hacker News “storage costs for the users' models”
  • Active Replica Time Billing
    medium 1 source
    Grounded summary dev announced the sunsetting of its Serverless GPU platform on March 31, 2024, citing challenges in achieving reliability, cost-effectiveness, speed, and ease of use amidst shifting AI trends and GPU market constraints.
  • Unpredictable Pricing
    high 1 source
    Grounded summary dev announced the sunsetting of its Serverless GPU platform on March 31, 2024, citing challenges in achieving reliability, cost-effectiveness, speed, and ease of use amidst shifting AI trends and GPU market constraints.
  • Billing Model Shift
    medium 1 source
    Grounded summary dev's billing was transitioning to an up-front payment system where funds apply as a credit balance to the user's account.
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Key claims include inline source attribution. Data verified against multiple independent sources. 6 source citations total.

Banana.dev Contract Terms

Banana.dev contracts do not auto-renew. Changes require advance notice. These terms are sourced from verified buyer experiences.

Contract Terms
Minimum Commitment No minimum commitment
Based on 1 verified source

Banana.dev Pricing FAQ

01 Is Banana.dev still available?

No. Banana.dev shut down its infrastructure on March 31, 2024. The service is no longer available for new signups or deployments. Teams previously using Banana.dev have migrated to alternatives including Replicate, Modal, Baseten, and Cerebrium.

02 Why did Banana.dev shut down?

Banana.dev cited the GPU supply crunch of 2023-2024 as the cause of its shutdown. Skyrocketing costs for reserving H100 and A100 GPUs made their low-margin, pass-through pricing model unsustainable.

03 What are the best Banana.dev alternatives?

The main alternatives to Banana.dev for serverless GPU inference are Replicate (popular for image and audio models), Modal (Python-native serverless compute), Baseten (model serving for production teams), and Cerebrium (per-second serverless GPU with a free tier for hobbyists).

04 What were the main costs of using Banana.dev before it shut down?

Users paid for GPU time for training, GPU time for inference, storage for trained models, and egress fees to download models. Egress and network costs were often the dominant expense — sometimes exceeding the raw GPU compute cost.

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