{ "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", "dns": "antseed.grade.anchorterminal.com", "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 per PRICING.md and readable live with `antseed network browse --json`. Buyers pre-deposit USDC on Base and pay per request. Some models are free. 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": "2026-10-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 888, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 31, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 93, "reliability": 52, "schema": 55, "security": 45, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-12. The buyer proxy forwarded a client's `Authorization`, `x-api-key`, cookie and other credential headers to the seller it routed to, a flaw the repository's own review of 8 March 2026 lists as VULN-002 and issue #1104 (4 October 2026) raised. Commit 6d2c7c13 stopped it, first released in v0.2.58 on 12 October 2026, and CHANGELOG.md marks the entry as security and tells users to rotate exposed keys. Two more released fixes marked security in CHANGELOG.md fold into the same term, a local client spending from a workspace wallet by naming its buyer identity (v0.2.61, 16 October 2026) and API-key holders reusing a request ID to skip spend accounting (v0.2.67, 22 October 2026). No published advisory was found on osv.dev, so the released fixes without an advisory take -3. https://github.com/Antseed/antseed/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md" ], "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 in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwarded client credentials to them until 12 October 2026 with no advisory, 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 some models are free", "One proxy accepts Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses requests and translates between them when the seller speaks another format", "PRICING.md says seller prices per 1M tokens are published 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, CI on main and 67 tagged releases between 6 August and 31 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "The buyer proxy copied client credential headers to sellers until v0.2.58 (12 October 2026), with no published advisory", "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. Release tag v0.2.72 carries CLI 0.1.220, and CHANGELOG.md keeps recent entries 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`, and run v0.2.58 or later, which stops credential headers reaching sellers.", "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": "0.8", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 56, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 93, "reliability": 52, "schema": 55, "security": 45, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 52, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-13", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "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": "2026-11-04", "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 9 October 2026, Gibraltar law) 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 returned 404 on 8 October, and the repository has no SECURITY.md on 4 November.", "RDAP gives 2026-02-23 as the registration date for antseed.com. @antseed/cli was first published to npm on 2026-02-24.", "The terms bar using software, automated agents or scripts to scrape or mine data from the Offerings, defined to include the documentation, so antseed.com and network.antseed.com beyond the terms were not read on 4 November." ], "score": 52 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.json", "live": { "slug": "antseed", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Antseed/antseed", "version": "v0.2.84", "released": "2026-11-13", "seenAt": "2026-11-13T08:15:02.861870964Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@antseed/cli", "version": "0.1.247", "seenAt": "2026-11-13T08:15:02.024557919Z" } ], "githubStars": 134, "npmWeekly": 4814, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://antseed.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T16:16:40.877957729Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://antseed.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T15:53:19.197851192Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "antseed.com", "registered": "2026-02-23", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/antseed.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:11:02.080214159Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Antseed/antseed/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:31.540912948Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:31.540912948Z", "fingerprint": "e56b3ab90c12" }, { "url": "https://antseed.com/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:09:08.844183945Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-12T17:29:10.220449046Z", "fingerprint": "5c021976c148" } ], "github": { "repo": "antseed/antseed", "checkedAt": "2026-11-09T10:06:59.485170611Z", "stars": 134, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-09T09:53:05Z", "openIssues": 95, "openPRs": 49, "issuesOpened90d": 130, "issuesClosed90d": 58, "prsMerged90d": 487, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 37, "failure": 13, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-11-08T12:54:40Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 21, "unanswered": 17, "medianDays": 0.4 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:31.540912948Z" } }, "answer": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 57 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "hy4", "name": "Tencent Hy4", "vendor": "Tencent (Hy team)", "vendorUrl": "https://aistudio.tencent.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Tencent Hy4 is Tencent's flagship language model, released on 4 November 2026 with image understanding and computer use, served on Tencent Cloud TokenHub as hy4 with a 1M-token context, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy4.json", "dns": "hy4.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A TokenHub bearer key (or `x-api-key` on the Anthropic-style route) from a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, per the tencent-tokenhub listing. Keys can be limited by model, service, IP range and token quota.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached input and ¥18 output per million tokens on TokenHub, billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (Beijing time), per the price page updated 9 November 2026. Tencent's release gives about US$0.90, US$0.045 and US$2.70. No free allowance named for hy4 on the price page.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in Tencent's release or TokenHub's price page, 11 November 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-11" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130051", "llmsTxt": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "multimodal", "reasoning", "long-context", "tool-calling", "usage-priced", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "chinese", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 595, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1524, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.8", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 45, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-11" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own.", "bestFor": "Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.", "strengths": [ "1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output, per TokenHub's model list", "Image understanding, function calling, structured output, thinking and caching are marked for hy4", "Prices published: ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached, ¥18 output per million tokens, billed at 50% until 31 December 2026", "OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints on TokenHub, so existing SDKs work with a changed base URL", "Tencent says it's the same price as Hy4 preview despite the upgrade" ], "weaknesses": [ "Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November", "Computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked in TokenHub's model list", "TokenHub needs real-name verification, and the international site answers with a bot check", "No public status page for TokenHub", "Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's, several of them internal" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use model id hy4 on TokenHub's OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoints; hy4-preview is a separate, older model", "Keep input under 960K tokens and expect at most 64K output", "Reuse prompt prefixes: cached input is ¥0.3 against ¥6", "Check the price page for the end of the 50% discount on 31 December 2026 before budgeting", "Read rate limits from the console or DescribeModelQuota; the public docs don't give them for chat models" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.8", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 86, "maintenance": 73, "payments": 45, "reliability": 46, "schema": 73, "security": 71, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-11", "maintenance": "2026-11-11", "payments": "2026-11-11", "reliability": "2026-11-11", "schema": "2026-11-11", "security": "2026-11-11", "transparency": "2026-11-11" }, "last": "2026-11-11", "lastMoved": "2026-11-13", "oldest": "2026-11-11", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKENHUB_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"hy4\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hy4" }, "sameCompany": [ "hy-memory", "tencentdb-agent-memory", "hunyuanocr", "octop", "hy-memory-30b-a3b", "hy3", "wevisone-vl-2b", "wevisone-vl-4b" ], "sameModel": [ "tencent-tokenhub" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hy4 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "¥6 list, about US$0.90 per Tencent; billed at 50% until 31 December 2026" }, { "item": "Hy4 cached input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.045, "note": "¥0.3 list" }, { "item": "Hy4 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2.7, "note": "¥18 list" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司)", "domain": "tencentmaas.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-13", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/129852", "privacy": "https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/91d5fd3c98ce4468ae462ac59233bba2", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130675", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-11", "notes": [ "The TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (effective 23 April 2026) and the special note on third-party deployed models (effective 14 September 2026) name 腾讯云计算（北京）有限责任公司. The docs footer also names 深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司 as ICP licence holder.", "The TokenHub privacy policy is linked from the docs to privacy.qq.com, which renders only with JavaScript, so it was not read. privacy.qq.com has no robots.txt (404).", "No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer, and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check.", "security.txt answered 404 on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com and tokenhub.tencentmaas.com. Tencent's bug bounty policy at en.security.tencent.com lists Tencent Cloud in scope.", "RDAP at Verisign gives tencentmaas.com a registration date of 13 March 2026 with no registrant. The API answers at tokenhub.tencentmaas.com and tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com, named in Tencent Cloud's API usage page.", "cloud.tencent.com allows these docs in robots.txt. Its pages answered some requests with a JavaScript bot check, which was not passed. The pages were read when a later plain request returned them. www.tencentcloud.com answered robots.txt with a bot check, so the international site was not read." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.json", "live": { "slug": "hy4", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://tencentmaas.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T16:16:35.489580858Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T15:54:34.939672287Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/130675", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:11:34.856577424Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/91d5fd3c98ce4468ae462ac59233bba2", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:00.062507799Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/129852", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-13T18:11:36.909670614Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-13T18:28:00.062507799Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 48, "category": "payments", "leads": "antseed", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "x402 v2 exists only on `POST /v1/key/topup` of a gateway the owner runs, and is off until enabled per key. Inference is paid through Antseed's own HTTP 402 flow with EIP-712 signatures and USDC channels on Base, which isn't one of the three protocols the rubric names (10 of 40, a judgement call). PRICING.md in the repository says seller prices per 1M tokens are published without authentication at a cached endpoint and live through `antseed network browse --json` (20); the 8 October snapshot figures came from that JSON endpoint and are struck. Free models answer with no card and no account, per the docs on 8 October (20). An agent can install the CLI, get a key generated locally and fund it by a USDC transfer, with no sign-up flow (20). The self-hosted rule gives the same three lines for the free software. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric: the protocol's 10 of 40 is 2.5 of 10, and the other lines' 60 is 90 at 30 each, so 70 is 93.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The price page, updated 9 November, lists ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached and ¥18 output per million tokens, with Hy4 billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (20). TokenHub's campaign of 1M free tokens per language model, read on 1 November, isn't confirmed for hy4 on the price page, so half (10 of 20, a judgement call). A person signs up with real-name verification (0). 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 30 is 45." }, "scores": { "a": 93, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 30, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading, as for other routers. Tool use and structured output depend on the seller, and the model list reports both per seller with conservative model-level values (12 of 20 and 8 of 15). Cached-input pricing is advertised per seller where supported (8 of 15). Context length is reported per model as the lowest value across sellers (10 of 15). No batch route found (0 of 10). No SDK of its own for buyers. OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work against the proxy, and wrappers launch Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (5 of 10). Documented error codes with fixes, and cost and seller headers on non-streaming responses (13 of 15). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling is marked for hy4 in the model list (18 of 20). Structured output marked (13 of 15). Cache-hit price published, ¥0.3 against ¥6 input (14 of 15). 1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output (15). Batch at half price covered Hy3 and Hy4 preview on 1 November; whether it covers hy4 wasn't re-read (3 of 10). OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs with a changed base URL, plus Tencent Cloud's SDK and CLI for the control plane (8 of 10). Errors with code, messages, upstream status and request ID (15 of 15). 18 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 3 + 8 + 15 = 86." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 86 } }, { "by": 26, "category": "security", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading. The local proxy has no key and binds to 127.0.0.1. One secp256k1 key is identity and wallet, stored in plain text by the CLI unless supplied by environment variable, and encrypted by the OS keychain in the desktop app. Spending is bounded by a deposit contract, a capped ReserveAuth per seller and an optional separate withdrawal wallet, and gateway keys are hashed, revocable and spend-limited (18 of 30). Sellers are independent, and the FAQ says a standard seller can read prompts and sets its own practices (5 of 20). No central log, and an optional TEE-verified route with attestation checked on the buyer's machine (8 of 15). Seller, token and cost headers per response, `antseed buyer metering` and a Prometheus exporter (12 of 15). The buyer proxy stopped forwarding client credentials to sellers in v0.2.58 (12 October 2026). No SECURITY.md in the 4 November clone; no security.txt, published advisory, bug bounty, certification or contract audit report found. The repository holds one automated review of the buyer proxy dated 8 March 2026 (2 of 20). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Bearer keys limited by model, service, IP range and token quota, long-lived with no rotation (26 of 30). The terms say inputs aren't used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and Hy4 is first party, so no third party's terms apply (14 of 20). Retention only as long as the service needs, no periods (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs and optional full logs to the customer's CLS (14 of 15). No security.txt; Tencent's TSRC bounty covers Tencent Cloud; no certification checked (10 of 20). 26 + 14 + 7 + 14 + 10 = 71." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "schema", "leads": "hy4", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI document found in the repository or docs. The proxy copies the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats (0 of 25). llms.txt at antseed.com/llms.txt and a setup skill at /skill.md (10). The API guide states what each route is for, how routing picks a seller and when to pin one (14 of 20). Request bodies follow the upstream formats, and `/v1/models` reports context length, modalities, tool use and supported parameters per seller (8 of 15). Curl examples for each format and an error table with status, code, meaning and fix (13 of 15). A public changelog and tagged releases, with recent entries under an undated Unreleased heading (10 of 15). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No OpenAPI file for inference; field pages for the OpenAI and Anthropic formats as TokenHub implements them (12 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown copies (10). The model list, updated 9 November, gives hy4's context, input and output limits and marks thinking, structured output, function calling, caching and image understanding; computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked (13 of 20). Typed field pages (10 of 15). Examples in five languages and an error page of 30 codes (14 of 15). Dated release notes, with hy4 added on 4 November (14 of 15). 12 + 10 + 13 + 10 + 14 + 14 = 73." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "transparency", "leads": "antseed", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "GPL-3.0 source for the protocol, CLI, desktop app and contracts (30). The terms (last updated 9 October 2026), FAQ and privacy page agree that there is no central request log and that sellers may log prompts. There is no privacy policy document, and docs/telemetry.md says the PostHog region and retention period are still to be documented (12 of 30). No deprecation policy found. The changelog gives version cut-offs for protocol changes and a dated cutover of 10 September 2026 for staking contracts (8 of 20). Desktop telemetry is documented event by event with a toggle and an environment switch, and is keyed to the buyer's public wallet address. No telemetry code found in the CLI (16 of 20). docs/telemetry.md is unchanged since 15 September 2026 in the 4 November clone.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service under the TokenHub terms, but Tencent's release headline calls Hy4 open source while the weights and system card are only promised 'in the coming days', with no licence stated, and tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November (14 of 30). Terms and FAQ agree inputs aren't used for training; the privacy policy renders only with JavaScript and wasn't read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices and shutdown fields (13 of 20). Processing generally in mainland China for the China site, Singapore for the international one (13 of 20). Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's. 14 + 15 + 13 + 13 = 55." }, "scores": { "a": 59, "b": 52 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "reliability", "leads": "antseed", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the local-software lines, since the buyer runs the proxy. Official npm package @antseed/cli with Node.js 20 or later stated, plus desktop installers (20). Public CI on main runs the unit tests, an end-to-end suite and a payment flow (ci.yml in the clone), but the run results on GitHub couldn't be read on 4 November, so 15 of 25. Open issues and pull requests per the 8 October count (74 and 32), with bug reports from late September open then and reply times not sampled (12 of 25). CHANGELOG.md calls out breaking CLI changes, but versions are 0.x patch bumps and recent entries sit under one Unreleased heading (5 of 15). Release tag v0.2.72 and CLI 0.1.220 at that tag, with no statement of stability (0). Whether a request is answered also depends on which sellers are online, which this checklist doesn't score.", "b": "Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No public status page (0) and so no incident record to read (5 of 30). Per-model rate limits only in the console and DescribeModelQuota (8 of 15). Six 429 codes, Retry-After and backoff advice (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% a month, and Hy4 is Tencent's own model, so the third-party exclusion doesn't apply (10). Released as hy4 on 4 November, a separate id from hy4-preview, with no preview label (10). 0 + 5 + 8 + 13 + 10 + 10 = 46." }, "scores": { "a": 52, "b": 46 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Antseed Foundation", "b": "Tencent (Hy team)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "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": "Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-31", "b": "2026-11-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-15", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 57 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or Tencent Hy4?" }, { "answer": "Antseed needs no key. Tencent Hy4 needs an API key.", "question": "Do Antseed and Tencent Hy4 need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tencent Hy4.", "question": "Can an agent call Antseed and Tencent Hy4 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 Tencent Hy4.", "question": "Are Antseed and Tencent Hy4 open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 52 against 46", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 93 against 45", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 73", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 52" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "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 copied client credential headers to sellers until v0.2.58 (12 October 2026), with no published advisory" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 86 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 45" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.", "slug": "hy4", "watchFor": "Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November" } ], "history": { "antseed": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-11-13", "delta": 2.9, "from": 54.1, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 57, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "security", "evidence" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": -1, "from": 55.1, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 54.1, "toGrade": "C" } ], "hy4": [ { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-11-13", "delta": 1.8, "from": 62.2, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64, "toGrade": "B" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-antseed.json", "title": "Amazon Bedrock vs Antseed", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-antseed" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vertex-ai.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-vertex-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-xai-api.json", "title": "Tencent Hy4 vs xAI API (Grok)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hy4-vs-xai-api" }, { "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-eden-ai.json", "title": "Antseed vs Eden AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-eden-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hugging-face-inference-providers.json", "title": "Antseed vs Hugging Face Inference Providers", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hugging-face-inference-providers" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-litellm.json", "title": "Antseed vs LiteLLM", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-litellm" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter.json", "title": "Antseed vs OpenRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-openrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-ramp-router.json", "title": "Antseed vs Router.com (Ramp Router)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-ramp-router" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Antseed vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-tencent-tokenhub.json", "title": "Antseed vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-tencent-tokenhub" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Antseed vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "antseed": 52, "by": 6, "edge": "antseed", "hy4": 46, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "antseed": 55, "by": 18, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 73, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "antseed": 56, "by": 30, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 86, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "antseed": 45, "by": 26, "edge": "hy4", "hy4": 71, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "antseed": 93, "by": 48, "edge": "antseed", "hy4": 45, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "antseed": 79, "by": 6, "edge": "antseed", "hy4": 73, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "antseed": 59, "by": 7, "edge": "antseed", "hy4": 52, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 57 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do llm inference.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "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 in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwarded client credentials to them until 12 October 2026 with no advisory, and every package is pre-1.0.", "hy4": "Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4.min.md" }, "markdown": "Tencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 57 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Antseed: grade C, 57/100, rank #888 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json\n- Tencent Hy4: grade B, 64/100, rank #595 of 1524. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hy4.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy4.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 1044 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- Reliability, 52 against 46\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 93 against 45\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 73\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The buyer proxy copied client credential headers to sellers until v0.2.58 (12 October 2026), with no published advisory\n\n### Tencent Hy4 (B)\n\nGood for: Long-context agent work, coding and office or finance tasks on a 1M-token context with images, for teams already on Tencent Cloud or happy to verify an account there.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 86 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Antseed loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Weights, licence and system card are promised but not published; tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Antseed +48\n\n- Antseed (93): x402 v2 exists only on `POST /v1/key/topup` of a gateway the owner runs, and is off until enabled per key. Inference is paid through Antseed's own HTTP 402 flow with EIP-712 signatures and USDC channels on Base, which isn't one of the three protocols the rubric names (10 of 40, a judgement call). PRICING.md in the repository says seller prices per 1M tokens are published without authentication at a cached endpoint and live through `antseed network browse --json` (20); the 8 October snapshot figures came from that JSON endpoint and are struck. Free models answer with no card and no account, per the docs on 8 October (20). An agent can install the CLI, get a key generated locally and fund it by a USDC transfer, with no sign-up flow (20). The self-hosted rule gives the same three lines for the free software. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric: the protocol's 10 of 40 is 2.5 of 10, and the other lines' 60 is 90 at 30 each, so 70 is 93.\n- Tencent Hy4 (45): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No machine payment protocol (0). The price page, updated 9 November, lists ¥6 input, ¥0.3 cached and ¥18 output per million tokens, with Hy4 billed at 50% until 31 December 2026 (20). TokenHub's campaign of 1M free tokens per language model, read on 1 November, isn't confirmed for hy4 on the price page, so half (10 of 20, a judgement call). A person signs up with real-name verification (0). 0 + 20 + 10 + 0 = 30. Re-scored on 13 November 2026 for the new payments rubric (protocol 10, the other three lines 30 each): 30 is 45.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Tencent Hy4 +30\n\n- Antseed (56): Model reading, as for other routers. Tool use and structured output depend on the seller, and the model list reports both per seller with conservative model-level values (12 of 20 and 8 of 15). Cached-input pricing is advertised per seller where supported (8 of 15). Context length is reported per model as the lowest value across sellers (10 of 15). No batch route found (0 of 10). No SDK of its own for buyers. OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work against the proxy, and wrappers launch Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode (5 of 10). Documented error codes with fixes, and cost and seller headers on non-streaming responses (13 of 15). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.\n- Tencent Hy4 (86): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Function calling is marked for hy4 in the model list (18 of 20). Structured output marked (13 of 15). Cache-hit price published, ¥0.3 against ¥6 input (14 of 15). 1M-token context with 960K input and 64K output (15). Batch at half price covered Hy3 and Hy4 preview on 1 November; whether it covers hy4 wasn't re-read (3 of 10). OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs with a changed base URL, plus Tencent Cloud's SDK and CLI for the control plane (8 of 10). Errors with code, messages, upstream status and request ID (15 of 15). 18 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 3 + 8 + 15 = 86.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Tencent Hy4 +26\n\n- Antseed (45): Model reading. The local proxy has no key and binds to 127.0.0.1. One secp256k1 key is identity and wallet, stored in plain text by the CLI unless supplied by environment variable, and encrypted by the OS keychain in the desktop app. Spending is bounded by a deposit contract, a capped ReserveAuth per seller and an optional separate withdrawal wallet, and gateway keys are hashed, revocable and spend-limited (18 of 30). Sellers are independent, and the FAQ says a standard seller can read prompts and sets its own practices (5 of 20). No central log, and an optional TEE-verified route with attestation checked on the buyer's machine (8 of 15). Seller, token and cost headers per response, `antseed buyer metering` and a Prometheus exporter (12 of 15). The buyer proxy stopped forwarding client credentials to sellers in v0.2.58 (12 October 2026). No SECURITY.md in the 4 November clone; no security.txt, published advisory, bug bounty, certification or contract audit report found. The repository holds one automated review of the buyer proxy dated 8 March 2026 (2 of 20). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.\n- Tencent Hy4 (71): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Bearer keys limited by model, service, IP range and token quota, long-lived with no rotation (26 of 30). The terms say inputs aren't used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and Hy4 is first party, so no third party's terms apply (14 of 20). Retention only as long as the service needs, no periods (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs and optional full logs to the customer's CLS (14 of 15). No security.txt; Tencent's TSRC bounty covers Tencent Cloud; no certification checked (10 of 20). 26 + 14 + 7 + 14 + 10 = 71.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Tencent Hy4 +18\n\n- Antseed (55): No OpenAPI document found in the repository or docs. The proxy copies the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats (0 of 25). llms.txt at antseed.com/llms.txt and a setup skill at /skill.md (10). The API guide states what each route is for, how routing picks a seller and when to pin one (14 of 20). Request bodies follow the upstream formats, and `/v1/models` reports context length, modalities, tool use and supported parameters per seller (8 of 15). Curl examples for each format and an error table with status, code, meaning and fix (13 of 15). A public changelog and tagged releases, with recent entries under an undated Unreleased heading (10 of 15). Docs per the 8 October check, not re-read on 4 November, because the terms of 9 October 2026 bar scripts that scrape or mine data from the Offerings, which include the documentation.\n- Tencent Hy4 (73): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No OpenAPI file for inference; field pages for the OpenAI and Anthropic formats as TokenHub implements them (12 of 25). llms.txt with Markdown copies (10). The model list, updated 9 November, gives hy4's context, input and output limits and marks thinking, structured output, function calling, caching and image understanding; computer use, which Tencent's release names, isn't marked (13 of 20). Typed field pages (10 of 15). Examples in five languages and an error page of 30 codes (14 of 15). Dated release notes, with hy4 added on 4 November (14 of 15). 12 + 10 + 13 + 10 + 14 + 14 = 73.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Antseed +7\n\n- Antseed (59): GPL-3.0 source for the protocol, CLI, desktop app and contracts (30). The terms (last updated 9 October 2026), FAQ and privacy page agree that there is no central request log and that sellers may log prompts. There is no privacy policy document, and docs/telemetry.md says the PostHog region and retention period are still to be documented (12 of 30). No deprecation policy found. The changelog gives version cut-offs for protocol changes and a dated cutover of 10 September 2026 for staking contracts (8 of 20). Desktop telemetry is documented event by event with a toggle and an environment switch, and is keyed to the buyer's public wallet address. No telemetry code found in the CLI (16 of 20). docs/telemetry.md is unchanged since 15 September 2026 in the 4 November clone.\n- Tencent Hy4 (52): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Closed service under the TokenHub terms, but Tencent's release headline calls Hy4 open source while the weights and system card are only promised 'in the coming days', with no licence stated, and tencent/Hy4 didn't answer on Hugging Face on 11 November (14 of 30). Terms and FAQ agree inputs aren't used for training; the privacy policy renders only with JavaScript and wasn't read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices and shutdown fields (13 of 20). Processing generally in mainland China for the China site, Singapore for the international one (13 of 20). Every benchmark in the release is Tencent's own or a partner's. 14 + 15 + 13 + 13 = 55.\n\n### Reliability: Antseed +6\n\n- Antseed (52): Read with the local-software lines, since the buyer runs the proxy. Official npm package @antseed/cli with Node.js 20 or later stated, plus desktop installers (20). Public CI on main runs the unit tests, an end-to-end suite and a payment flow (ci.yml in the clone), but the run results on GitHub couldn't be read on 4 November, so 15 of 25. Open issues and pull requests per the 8 October count (74 and 32), with bug reports from late September open then and reply times not sampled (12 of 25). CHANGELOG.md calls out breaking CLI changes, but versions are 0.x patch bumps and recent entries sit under one Unreleased heading (5 of 15). Release tag v0.2.72 and CLI 0.1.220 at that tag, with no statement of stability (0). Whether a request is answered also depends on which sellers are online, which this checklist doesn't score.\n- Tencent Hy4 (46): Model reading for hy4 on Tencent Cloud TokenHub. Platform facts are the tencent-tokenhub listing's (checked 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. No public status page (0) and so no incident record to read (5 of 30). Per-model rate limits only in the console and DescribeModelQuota (8 of 15). Six 429 codes, Retry-After and backoff advice (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% a month, and Hy4 is Tencent's own model, so the third-party exclusion doesn't apply (10). Released as hy4 on 4 November, a separate id from hy4-preview, with no preview label (10). 0 + 5 + 8 + 13 + 10 + 10 = 46.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Antseed | Tencent Hy4 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 52 | 46 | Antseed +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 73 | Tencent Hy4 +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 86 | Tencent Hy4 +30 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 71 | Tencent Hy4 +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 93 | 45 | Antseed +48 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 73 | Antseed +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 52 | Antseed +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57 · C** | **64 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Antseed | Tencent Hy4 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Tencent (Hy team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Hosted model under the Tencent Cloud TokenHub terms. Tencent says weights and a system card will follow; no licence is stated yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-31 | 2026-11-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Antseed\n\n- +2.9 on 13 November 2026: checklist\n- -1.0 on 4 November 2026: security, new evidence\n\n### Tencent Hy4\n\n- +1.8 on 13 November 2026: checklist\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 in response headers. Sellers are unvetted and can read prompts unless TEE-verified, the proxy forwarded client credentials to them until 12 October 2026 with no advisory, and every package is pre-1.0.\n\n**Tencent Hy4.** Tencent's flagship model is on TokenHub as hy4, with a 1M-token context, image understanding, function calling and caching, at ¥6 input and ¥18 output per million tokens, half price until the end of 2026. The weights it is called open source for aren't published yet, and every benchmark is Tencent's own.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Antseed\n\n1. Send a placeholder key such as `antseed-p2p`, and run v0.2.58 or later, which stops credential headers reaching sellers.\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### Tencent Hy4\n\n1. Use model id hy4 on TokenHub's OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoints; hy4-preview is a separate, older model\n2. Keep input under 960K tokens and expect at most 64K output\n3. Reuse prompt prefixes: cached input is ¥0.3 against ¥6\n4. Check the price page for the end of the 50% discount on 31 December 2026 before budgeting\n5. Read rate limits from the console or DescribeModelQuota; the public docs don't give them for chat models\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or Tencent Hy4?\n\nTencent Hy4 scores 64 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 57 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Antseed and Tencent Hy4 need an API key?\n\nAntseed needs no key. Tencent Hy4 needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Antseed and Tencent Hy4 without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Tencent Hy4.\n\n### Are Antseed and Tencent Hy4 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 Tencent Hy4.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-hy4.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"antseed\", \"b\": \"hy4\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare antseed hy4`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hy4.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Antseed or Tencent Hy4\n\n- [Amazon Bedrock vs Antseed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-antseed.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock vs Tencent Hy4](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-bedrock-vs-hy4.md)\n- [Claude API vs Antseed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-antseed.md)\n- [Claude API vs Tencent Hy4](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-hy4.md)\n- [Antseed vs Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-azure-openai.md)\n- [Antseed vs BlockRun.AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-blockrun-ai.md)\n- [Antseed vs Cerebras Inference](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-cerebras-inference.md)\n- [Antseed vs Claude Fable 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