# Antseed vs DeepInfra

> DeepInfra scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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DeepInfra scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference.

- Antseed: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #599 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json
- DeepInfra: grade B, 63/100, rank #371 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepinfra.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepinfra.json

## Which one, for what

### Antseed (C)

Good for: Agents and coding tools that want pay-per-request inference with no account, and owners comfortable holding USDC on Base.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 70 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 65

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch 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

### DeepInfra (B)

Good for: Agents that want many open-weight models, embeddings, image and speech behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, with spend-capped tokens.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 70 against 62
- Schema & documentation, 69 against 55
- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 56
- Security & auth, 64 against 45
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 59

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 4 points for them

Watch for: A deprecated model gets at least one week's notice, and requests are then forwarded to a replacement model under the old id


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Antseed | DeepInfra | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 70 | DeepInfra +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 69 | DeepInfra +14 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 77 | DeepInfra +21 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 64 | DeepInfra +19 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 70 | 20 | Antseed +50 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 65 | Antseed +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 67 | DeepInfra +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **63 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Antseed | DeepInfra |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Deep Infra Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Proprietary service under the DeepInfra Terms of Service. The Python and Node SDKs and the docs repository are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | 2026-08-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-15 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | 21 stars, 1.2k npm/wk, 50 PyPI/wk |

## 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.

**DeepInfra.** The model list, context sizes and per-token prices are readable without a key, and keys can carry an IP allowlist, a monthly spending cap and model-limited JWTs. Deprecated models get one week's notice and are then redirected to another model, there is no changelog or SLA, and an account needs a card or prepayment before any call.

## Before you call either

### Antseed

1. Send a placeholder key such as `antseed-p2p`. The proxy forwards whatever `Authorization` or `x-api-key` header the client sends to the seller
2. Call `GET /v1/models` first and request a concrete id. The `antseed` alias works only when the desktop app has a model selected
3. Handle 402 `insufficient_deposits` by reading `suggestedAmount`, then fund the address from `antseed buyer deposit` with USDC on Base
4. Pass `--verifiers antseed-verifier --require-verifier` to `antseed buyer start` when prompts are private, so only TEE-verified sellers are routed
5. Read `x-antseed-peer-id` and `x-antseed-estimated-cost-usd` on each response, and pin a seller with `<peerId>@<model>` when the same one must answer

### DeepInfra

1. Call `GET https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai/models` at start-up for ids, context sizes and prices. No key is needed
2. Check the `model` field of each response. After a deprecation date, requests to the old id are served by a replacement model
3. Ask the account owner for a scoped JWT limited to the models and spend the task needs, not the full API key
4. Stay under 200 concurrent requests per model. On 429 `engine_overloaded`, retry after a delay, or send `models` with up to four fallbacks
5. Never inspect a JWT with `GET /v1/scoped-jwt?jwtoken=`, which puts the token in the URL. Keep credentials in the `Authorization` header

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or DeepInfra?

DeepInfra scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Antseed and DeepInfra need an API key?

Antseed needs no key. DeepInfra needs an API key.

### Can an agent call Antseed and DeepInfra without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. DeepInfra has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai.

### Are Antseed and DeepInfra open source?

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 DeepInfra.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-deepinfra.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-deepinfra.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "antseed", "b": "deepinfra"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare antseed deepinfra`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepinfra.json

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