# Antseed vs GroqCloud (slim)

> GroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) 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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GroqCloud scores 75.6 (BB) 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: C 55.1, rank #459 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.min.md
- GroqCloud: BB 75.6, rank #39 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/groq.min.md
- Antseed, 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 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 72. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- GroqCloud, good for Many small, latency-sensitive calls on open-weight models, routing, extraction and classification, and agents that need to start free. Ahead on Reliability, 100 against 62; Schema & documentation, 64 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 56; Security & auth, 77 against 45; Transparency & trust, 85 against 59. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Antseed | GroqCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 100 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 77 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 70 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 85 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Antseed | GroqCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Groq |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.groq.com/openai/v1` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | 2026-06-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-11-12 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | 619 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |