Cactus Compute
startupOn-device AI with cloud fallback
Cactus Compute is an AI infrastructure company focused on running models close to users. Its Cactus engine targets low-latency inference on smartphones, laptops, wearables, and edge devices while keeping cloud fallback available for harder requests. The company positions Cactus as a single toolkit for speech, vision, and language models. Its public materials emphasize automatic routing between on-device and cloud execution, lower latency, privacy for sensitive workloads, and lower inference cost when simple requests can stay local. Cactus also publishes open-source work, including the Cactus runtime and Needle, a tiny tool-calling model. The company website lists Y Combinator backing and a team with backgrounds from Oxford, Salesforce, Google, AWS, MIT, and other organizations.
AI Models by Cactus Compute
Large language models from the same organization.
| Model | Context Window | Price (In / Out per M) |
|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Current | 256 | Free / Free |
| NeedleCurrent | -- | Free / Free |
MCP Servers by Cactus Compute
Connect this tool to AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol.
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