# Antseed vs Glimpse

> Antseed scores 55.1 (C) to Glimpse's 48.6 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Antseed scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Glimpse leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do llm inference.

- Antseed: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #741 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json
- Glimpse: grade D, 48.6/100, rank #915 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elorian-glimpse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/elorian-glimpse.json
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## 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:
- Reliability, 62 against 38
- Payments & pricing, 70 against 25
- Maintenance & community, 79 against 51
- Transparency & trust, 59 against 36

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

### Glimpse (D)

Good for: Visual question answering, video captioning and counting over images and video at a low per-token price, where a research preview reached through OpenRouter is acceptable.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 60 against 55
- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 56
- Security & auth, 56 against 45

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

Watch for: Labelled a research preview, with no public API docs, model card, changelog or deprecation policy from Elorian


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Antseed | Glimpse | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 38 | Antseed +24 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 60 | Glimpse +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 66 | Glimpse +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 56 | Glimpse +11 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 70 | 25 | Antseed +45 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 51 | Antseed +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 36 | Antseed +23 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **48.6 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Antseed | Glimpse |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Elorian |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` |
| 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 | Closed model and service under the Elorian AI, Inc. terms of service (California law). Weights not released. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |

## 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.

**Glimpse.** Glimpse reads images and video at $0.60 input and $3.00 output per million tokens, and OpenRouter serves it with tools, structured output and a 262,144-token context. It is a research preview with no public Elorian docs, model card or status page, and Elorian's terms allow training on submitted content unless a paid user opts out.

## 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

### Glimpse

1. Call it through OpenRouter as `elorian/glimpse` at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions. Elorian's own API docs sit behind a console sign-in
2. Send video as a `video_url` content part, as a public URL or a base64 data URL. Batch requests are not available for this model
3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. The endpoint allows up to 256,000 output tokens, and visual reasoning spends many of them
4. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503. With a single provider, a 503 means the Together deployment is unavailable, not that another host can take over
5. Treat counts and timestamps as unverified. Elorian's terms say outputs need independent human review before anyone relies on them

## Questions

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

Antseed scores 55.1 (C) on agent readiness against Glimpse's 48.6 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Glimpse leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics and security & auth.

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

Antseed needs no key. Glimpse needs an API key.

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

No hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. Glimpse has a hosted endpoint at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1.

### Are Antseed and Glimpse 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 Glimpse.


## For agents

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

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