{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "antseed", "name": "Antseed", "vendor": "Antseed Foundation", "vendorUrl": "https://antseed.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "Antseed is an open-source peer-to-peer network for buying and selling AI inference. A buyer runs a local proxy with OpenAI and Anthropic format endpoints, which routes each request to an independent seller and pays in USDC on Base.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Antseed/antseed", "license": "GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@antseed/cli" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account and no API key. The local proxy at 127.0.0.1:8377 doesn't check a key, so clients that need one send a placeholder such as `antseed-p2p`. Identity is a secp256k1 key the CLI creates on first run. Its EVM address is the peer id and the paying wallet. A public tunnel or the gateway (`antseed gateway`, `antseed tunnel start`) needs a generated `antseed_...` bearer key, with optional spend limits and expiry per key.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Sellers set their own prices per 1M input, cached-input and output tokens, published without login at https://network.antseed.com/stats. Buyers pre-deposit USDC on Base and pay per request. Some models are free, with nine free ids in the 8 October 2026 snapshot. The FAQ sets network fees at 4 per cent, and a gasless deposit costs a fixed $0.05 relay fee. The software is free.", "priceSummary": "4% fee", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Inference isn't paid by x402. Sellers answer HTTP 402 and the buyer signs Antseed's own EIP-712 ReserveAuth and SpendingAuth against an on-chain USDC channel (https://antseed.com/blog/the-402-flow/). x402 v2 appears only on `POST /v1/key/topup` of a gateway the owner runs, off until enabled per key (CHANGELOG.md, checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 106, "npmWeekly": 1823, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://antseed.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://antseed.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "p2p", "usdc", "base", "no-signup", "no-card", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "llms-txt", "cli", "desktop", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 667, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 70, "reliability": 62, "schema": 55, "security": 45, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08. The buyer proxy forwards a client's `Authorization`, `x-api-key` and cookie headers to the seller it routes to, confirmed in apps/cli/src/proxy/buyer-proxy.ts at commit 10a1f6b. The repository's own review of 8 March 2026 lists it as VULN-002, and issue #1104 (4 October 2026) is open. Clients started through `antseed claude` or `antseed codex` send a placeholder, so the deduction is 4 of a possible 15. https://github.com/Antseed/antseed/issues/1104" ], "verdict": "A buyer needs no account. The CLI creates a wallet key, free models answer at once and paid ones draw on deposited USDC, with seller, tokens and cost returned in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwards a client's own credential headers to them, and every package is pre-1.0.", "bestFor": "Agents and coding tools that want pay-per-request inference with no account, and owners comfortable holding USDC on Base.", "strengths": [ "No sign-up. `npm install -g @antseed/cli` and `antseed buyer start` give a local endpoint at http://localhost:8377, and nine model ids were free in the 8 October snapshot", "One proxy accepts Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses requests and translates between them when the seller speaks another format", "Seller prices per 1M tokens are public JSON at https://network.antseed.com/stats with no login, and `antseed network browse --json` reads them live", "Non-streaming responses carry `x-antseed-peer-id`, token counts and `x-antseed-estimated-cost-usd`, and `antseed buyer metering` gives totals per channel", "GPL-3.0 source with CI passing on main on 8 October 2026 and 28 tagged releases since 19 August 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "The buyer proxy copies a client's `Authorization` and `x-api-key` headers to the seller. The repository's March 2026 review flagged it and issue #1104 is open", "Sellers are independent and unvetted. The FAQ says a standard seller can read the prompt it serves, and each sets its own data practices", "Pre-1.0 everywhere. The CLI is 0.1.173, the release tag is v0.2.51, and CHANGELOG.md keeps everything since August under one Unreleased heading", "No OpenAPI document, security.txt, SECURITY.md, published advisory, bug bounty or contract audit report was found", "The buyer key is also the wallet, and the CLI stores it in plain text at ~/.antseed/identity.key unless `ANTSEED_IDENTITY_HEX` is set" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send a placeholder key such as `antseed-p2p`. The proxy forwards whatever `Authorization` or `x-api-key` header the client sends to the seller", "Call `GET /v1/models` first and request a concrete id. The `antseed` alias works only when the desktop app has a model selected", "Handle 402 `insufficient_deposits` by reading `suggestedAmount`, then fund the address from `antseed buyer deposit` with USDC on Base", "Pass `--verifiers antseed-verifier --require-verifier` to `antseed buyer start` when prompts are private, so only TEE-verified sellers are routed", "Read `x-antseed-peer-id` and `x-antseed-estimated-cost-usd` on each response, and pin a seller with `\u003cpeerId\u003e@\u003cmodel\u003e` when the same one must answer" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 70, "reliability": 62, "schema": 55, "security": 45, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 52 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @antseed/cli \u0026\u0026 antseed buyer start", "http": "curl http://localhost:8377/v1/chat/completions -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"model\": \"deepseek-v4-flash\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/antseed" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Network fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 4, "note": "Per the FAQ. Model prices are set by each seller" }, { "item": "Gasless deposit relay", "unit": "tx", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Fixed fee per sweep on Base mainnet" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Antseed Foundation", "domain": "antseed.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-02-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://antseed.com/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/Antseed/antseed/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The site footer reads © 2026 Antseed Foundation. The foundation post of 17 July 2026 calls it a non-profit and gives no jurisdiction or registration number.", "The terms (last updated 15 May 2026) say the protocol is not a company and that supporting entities don't operate or control the network. Their contact section points to the repository's issues.", "https://antseed.com/privacy/ is a product page about anonymity, not a privacy policy. Section 16 of the terms covers data, and docs/telemetry.md in the repository covers the desktop app.", "The endpoint an agent calls is on the owner's machine. The price snapshot is at network.antseed.com, and https://antseed.com/network shows live network data with no incident history.", "antseed.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt both return 404, and the repository has no SECURITY.md.", "RDAP gives 2026-02-23 as the registration date for antseed.com. @antseed/cli was first published to npm on 2026-02-24." ], "score": 52 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.json", "live": { "slug": "antseed", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Antseed/antseed", "version": "v0.2.55", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:39:35.690188193Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@antseed/cli", "version": "0.1.176", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:39:34.756589792Z" } ], "githubStars": 111, "npmWeekly": 1724, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://antseed.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:40:07.168373294Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://antseed.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:25.489380538Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Antseed/antseed/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:18.964142456Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:18.964142456Z", "fingerprint": "4e0f231aa624" }, { "url": "https://antseed.com/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:29.252623146Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:29.252623146Z", "fingerprint": "7c8b8db529a1" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T18:44:18.964142456Z" } }, "answer": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "cohere-chat", "name": "Cohere Chat API (Command models)", "vendor": "Cohere", "vendorUrl": "https://cohere.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-chat.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cohere" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cohere-ai" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-go/v2" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key from the dashboard, self-serve. A trial key is created at sign-up. A production key needs a team Owner to complete the Go to Production form and accept the SaaS agreement. Team roles are Owner and User. No key scopes or expiry were found in the docs.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Trial keys are free with no card, limited to 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and not for commercial use. Production keys bill per input and output token, monthly or at $250 outstanding. Current Command prices are in a script-drawn tab of cohere.com/pricing that we could not read. Production keys stay at trial limits on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "from $2.50 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/chat-api", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cohere.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cohere-ai/cohere-developer-experience/main/cohere-openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "free-tier", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "python", "typescript", "java", "go", "status-page", "soc2", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 342, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 84, "security": 57, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties.", "bestFor": "Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file in the docs repository, last changed 29 September 2026, and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "A trial key is created at sign-up with no card, limited to 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month", "Official SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Java and Go, each with a release on 26 August 2026", "JSON Schema structured outputs, `strict_tools` (beta), citations, reasoning budgets and safety modes on the v2 chat request", "The trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and a bug bounty, with nine sub-processors, all in the US" ], "weaknesses": [ "Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. The docs send production use of those models to sales or to Model Vault", "Prices for current Command models sit in a script-drawn tab of the pricing page that we could not read. Only legacy prices appear in the page text", "The SaaS agreement of 8 April 2025 grants Cohere an irrevocable right to use API data to improve its services and to share it with third parties", "No Retry-After header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation", "The SaaS agreement forbids use of the services for benchmarking or competitive analysis. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `POST https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. `model` and `messages` are the only required fields", "Use `command-a-03-2025`, `command-r-08-2024`, `command-r-plus-08-2024` or `command-r7b-12-2024` for production traffic. Newer variants stay at trial limits on a production key", "Keep a trial key under 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and do not use it for commercial work", "Set `response_format` with a `json_schema` for structured output, and tell the model to produce JSON when using `json_object` without a schema", "Ask the account Owner to turn off training under Data Controls in the dashboard before sending confidential prompts" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 84, "security": 57, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 83 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install cohere # or: npm i cohere-ai", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.cohere.ai/v2/chat \\\n --header 'accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --header \"Authorization: bearer $CO_API_KEY\" \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"command-a-plus-05-2026\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cohere-chat" }, "sameCompany": [ "cohere-embed", "cohere-north" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.", "domain": "cohere.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cohere.com/saas-agreement", "privacy": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cohere.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cohere.com/v2/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Commercial SaaS Agreement (last updated 8 April 2025) names Cohere Inc., 171 John Street, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, and is governed by Ontario law.", "The privacy policy (last updated 1 May 2026) says it does not apply to customer inputs and outputs under an enterprise agreement, which the agreement and a DPA govern. The DPA is sent on request.", "The OpenAPI file names https://api.cohere.com as the server and the chat guide's examples call https://api.cohere.ai. Both are Cohere's.", "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. The trust centre holds a responsible disclosure policy for the bug bounty.", "status.cohere.ai redirects to status.cohere.com, whose robots.txt answers 404, so the host publishes no rules.", "RDAP for cohere.com gives a registration date of 2000-03-07." ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.json", "live": { "slug": "cohere-chat", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:05.568976298Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 144, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 144, "p95ms24h": 241, "samples24h": 107, "samples30d": 107, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 22, "ok": 22 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cohere.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:48.85497993Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/cohere-python", "version": "7.1.0", "released": "2026-08-26", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:32.363318225Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cohere-ai", "version": "8.1.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:31.955149363Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cohere", "version": "7.2.0", "released": "2026-09-28", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T16:46:31.750729672Z" } ], "githubStars": 404, "npmWeekly": 446483, "pypiWeekly": 2506118, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cohere.com/v2/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:36:57.799784835Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:04:51.510283642Z", "fingerprint": "f82c6d389ba7" }, { "url": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/deprecations", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:36:55.160420163Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9848f1f6c54c" }, { "url": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:34:08.463769439Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:16:32.121838469Z", "fingerprint": "5ed49b0909fd" }, { "url": "https://cohere.com/saas-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:34:10.296826504Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "09fbf37bff61" } ], "models": { "command-r-plus-08-2024": { "openrouterId": "cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": false, "input": [ "text" ], "promptCaching": false, "contextTokens": 128000, "maxOutput": 4000, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T02:07:05.568976298Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Antseed Foundation", "b": "Cohere", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field", "b": "Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-09-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-15", "b": "2025-04-08", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-05-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or Cohere Chat API (Command models)?" }, { "answer": "Antseed needs no key. Cohere Chat API (Command models) needs an API key.", "question": "Do Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. Cohere Chat API (Command models) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat.", "question": "Can an agent call Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Antseed is open source (GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field). No open-source release is listed for Cohere Chat API (Command models).", "question": "Are Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 72" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Agents and coding tools that want pay-per-request inference with no account, and owners comfortable holding USDC on Base.", "slug": "antseed", "watchFor": "The buyer proxy copies a client's `Authorization` and `x-api-key` headers to the seller. The repository's March 2026 review flagged it and issue #1104 is open" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 45", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 59" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 4 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.", "slug": "cohere-chat", "watchFor": "Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. The docs send production use of those models to sales or to Model Vault" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-antseed.json", "title": "Claude API vs Antseed", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-antseed" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cohere-chat.json", "title": "Claude API vs Cohere Chat API (Command models)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-cohere-chat" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-blockrun-ai.json", "title": "Antseed vs BlockRun.AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-blockrun-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai.json", "title": "Antseed vs Cloudflare Workers AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Antseed vs Cloudflare AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Antseed vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter" } ], "scores": [ { "antseed": 62, "by": 2, "cohere-chat": 64, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "antseed": 55, "by": 29, "cohere-chat": 84, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "antseed": 56, "by": 16, "cohere-chat": 72, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "antseed": 45, "by": 12, "cohere-chat": 57, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "antseed": 70, "by": 40, "cohere-chat": 30, "edge": "antseed", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "antseed": 79, "by": 7, "cohere-chat": 72, "edge": "antseed", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "antseed": 59, "by": 15, "cohere-chat": 74, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do llm inference.", "verdicts": { "antseed": "A buyer needs no account. The CLI creates a wallet key, free models answer at once and paid ones draw on deposited USDC, with seller, tokens and cost returned in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwards a client's own credential headers to them, and every package is pre-1.0.", "cohere-chat": "A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Antseed: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #667 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json\n- Cohere Chat API (Command models): grade B, 64.7/100, rank #342 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-chat.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 136 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Antseed (C)\n\nGood for: Agents and coding tools that want pay-per-request inference with no account, and owners comfortable holding USDC on Base.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The buyer proxy copies a client's `Authorization` and `x-api-key` headers to the seller. The repository's March 2026 review flagged it and issue #1104 is open\n\n### Cohere Chat API (Command models) (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 45\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. The docs send production use of those models to sales or to Model Vault\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Antseed | Cohere Chat API (Command models) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 64 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 84 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 72 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 57 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +12 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 70 | 30 | Antseed +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 72 | Antseed +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 74 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **64.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Antseed | Cohere Chat API (Command models) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Cohere |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | 2025-04-08 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Antseed.** A buyer needs no account. The CLI creates a wallet key, free models answer at once and paid ones draw on deposited USDC, with seller, tokens and cost returned in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwards a client's own credential headers to them, and every package is pre-1.0.\n\n**Cohere Chat API (Command models).** A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Antseed\n\n1. Send a placeholder key such as `antseed-p2p`. The proxy forwards whatever `Authorization` or `x-api-key` header the client sends to the seller\n2. Call `GET /v1/models` first and request a concrete id. The `antseed` alias works only when the desktop app has a model selected\n3. Handle 402 `insufficient_deposits` by reading `suggestedAmount`, then fund the address from `antseed buyer deposit` with USDC on Base\n4. Pass `--verifiers antseed-verifier --require-verifier` to `antseed buyer start` when prompts are private, so only TEE-verified sellers are routed\n5. Read `x-antseed-peer-id` and `x-antseed-estimated-cost-usd` on each response, and pin a seller with `\u003cpeerId\u003e@\u003cmodel\u003e` when the same one must answer\n\n### Cohere Chat API (Command models)\n\n1. Call `POST https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. `model` and `messages` are the only required fields\n2. Use `command-a-03-2025`, `command-r-08-2024`, `command-r-plus-08-2024` or `command-r7b-12-2024` for production traffic. Newer variants stay at trial limits on a production key\n3. Keep a trial key under 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and do not use it for commercial work\n4. Set `response_format` with a `json_schema` for structured output, and tell the model to produce JSON when using `json_object` without a schema\n5. Ask the account Owner to turn off training under Data Controls in the dashboard before sending confidential prompts\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or Cohere Chat API (Command models)?\n\nCohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) need an API key?\n\nAntseed needs no key. Cohere Chat API (Command models) needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. Cohere Chat API (Command models) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat.\n\n### Are Antseed and Cohere Chat API (Command models) open source?\n\nAntseed is open source (GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field). No open-source release is listed for Cohere Chat API (Command models).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cohere-chat.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"antseed\", \"b\": \"cohere-chat\"}`. 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