{ "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": 459, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 9, "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": "v0.2.51", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:58:43.119163816Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@antseed/cli", "version": "0.1.173", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T15:58:39.375087215Z" } ], "githubStars": 109, "npmWeekly": 1823, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://antseed.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:32.487292893Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Antseed/antseed/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:37.539347164Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7beb610d0657" }, { "url": "https://antseed.com/terms-of-service/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:12.029803409Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a494a37d507a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:37.539347164Z" } }, "answer": "Prism Inference scores 60.1 (C) 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": "prism-inference", "name": "Prism Inference", "vendor": "Prism Technologies Inc", "vendorUrl": "https://prisminference.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Prism is a hosted inference API from Prism Technologies Inc for open-weight models, aimed at coding agents. It accepts OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests at api.prisminference.com. It launched on 24 September 2026.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prism-inference.json", "repo": "https://github.com/prismhq/hermes-prism-provider", "license": "Proprietary service under Prism's terms of service. The OpenAPI file declares `LicenseRef-Proprietary`. The Hermes provider plugin repository carries no licence file", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.prisminference.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`Authorization: Bearer` with a key issued from account settings after sign-up at prisminference.com/signup. The inference endpoints also accept the key in `x-api-key`. A missing, invalid, expired or revoked key returns 401. No key scopes were found in the reviewed documentation. An agent can call `POST https://prisminference.com/api/agent-signups` with the owner's email and a username and receive a key once, but that key can't run inference until the owner supplies a six-digit emailed code, and it expires after 30 days. `GET /v1/models` needs no key.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid per-token pricing with no minimum. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is $0.09 in, $1.20 out and $0.06 cache read per million tokens, and Gemma 4 31B is $0.30, $0.40 and $0.15 (https://prisminference.com/pricing, matched by https://api.prisminference.com/v1/models). No free tier or trial credit was found, and a workspace without credit gets 402. A person funds the workspace in a browser. Elastic endpoints, dedicated deployments and batch are sold through sales with no published price.", "priceSummary": "from $0.09 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the docs index, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page, read 2026-10-08. The docs describe prepaid credit funded by a person in the browser.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.prisminference.com", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.prisminference.com/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://prisminference.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.prisminference.com/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.fast", "inference.open-weights", "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "fast", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "zero-retention", "status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 363, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 49, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 82, "security": 65, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08. The home page shows a '99.99% Uptime SLA' tile, and the pricing page says 'No minimums, no rate limits' above the per-token table. The terms of 9 September 2026 say the services have no guaranteed uptime or service credit unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, and the docs describe per-key rate limits that return 429. No SLA document was found. A misleading claim, with the smallest deduction because the terms and docs state the real position (https://prisminference.com/, https://prisminference.com/pricing, https://prisminference.com/terms, https://docs.prisminference.com/rate-limits)." ], "verdict": "Three wire formats, a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, per-token prices in a keyless catalogue and zero data retention by default on every tier. The service launched on 24 September 2026 with two models, one of them by request, from a two-person company. No rate-limit numbers, SLA document, free tier or deprecation policy was found.", "bestFor": "Coding agents that want DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at a low input price, with no retention, through whichever of the three wire formats the harness already speaks.", "strengths": [ "One key works across OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages, with a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, llms.txt and Markdown docs", "Zero data retention is the default on every tier, and the privacy policy, terms and docs all say inputs and outputs are never used for training", "Every error carries a stable `code`, a `retryable` flag, a `fix` hint and a `docs_url`, and 429 carries `Retry-After` in seconds", "`GET /v1/models` answers without a key and returns context length, maximum output and per-token prices for each model", "DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is listed with a 1M-token context and 384,000 output tokens at $0.09 in and $1.20 out per million" ], "weaknesses": [ "Two models. The docs mark Gemma 4 31B as request access per organisation, while llms.txt and the keyless catalogue list it as available", "No rate-limit numbers are published. The docs say per-key limits exist, and the pricing page says 'no rate limits'", "The home page shows a '99.99% Uptime SLA' tile, while the terms say there is no guaranteed uptime without a separate written agreement", "No free tier found. Billing is prepaid, a person funds the workspace in a browser, and the agent sign-up key needs an emailed code", "The service launched on 24 September 2026. The changelog has one entry, and no deprecation policy, sub-processor list or certification was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET https://api.prisminference.com/v1/models` at start-up, with no key, and use only ids it returns. Expect 403 on `gemma-4-31b` without organisation access", "Use base URL `https://api.prisminference.com/v1` for OpenAI clients and `https://api.prisminference.com` with no `/v1` for Anthropic clients", "Read `error.retryable` before retrying, and wait for `Retry-After` on 429, which covers both key limits and model capacity", "Send `reasoning_effort: \"none\"` or `low` when latency matters. Reasoning is on by default and its tokens are billed as output", "Keep conversation state yourself and send `store: false` on Responses. `previous_response_id`, stored responses and hosted tools aren't supported" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "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": 60.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 68, "maintenance": 49, "payments": 30, "reliability": 65, "schema": 82, "security": 65, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 79 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install openai # or: npm install openai, base URL https://api.prisminference.com/v1. Anthropic SDKs use https://api.prisminference.com with no /v1", "http": "curl \"https://api.prisminference.com/v1/chat/completions\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $PRISM_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"deepseek-v4.1-flash\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Return pong.\"}]}'", "claudeCode": "export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.prisminference.com\nexport ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$PRISM_API_KEY\nexport ANTHROPIC_MODEL=deepseek-v4.1-flash\nexport ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL=gemma-4-31b" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.fast", "tool": "https://letme.dev/prism-inference" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Prism Technologies Inc", "domain": "prisminference.com", "domainRegistered": "2026-09-09", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://prisminference.com/terms", "privacy": "https://prisminference.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.prisminference.com", "changelog": "https://docs.prisminference.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms and the privacy policy, both last updated 9 September 2026, name Prism Technologies Inc. The terms are governed by California law with arbitration in San Francisco.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-09-09 for prisminference.com, with Name.com as registrar.", "security.txt has a Contact line (founders@prisminference.com), an Expires date of 2027-10-06 and a Canonical line. No disclosure policy or bug bounty is named.", "The status page runs on incident.io with one component for each model and no component for the API or the website. Its incidents feed was empty on 8 October 2026.", "The YC directory lists Prism in the Spring 2025 batch, in San Francisco, with a team of 2. The home page links an X account named prism_videos, from the company's earlier video product." ], "score": 79 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference.json", "live": { "slug": "prism-inference", "probe": { "target": "https://api.prisminference.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:56.350063654Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 134, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 142, "p95ms24h": 447, "samples24h": 42, "samples30d": 42, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 42, "ok": 42 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.prisminference.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:55.435401601Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "prismhq/hermes-prism-provider", "version": "v1.0.2", "released": "2026-09-16", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:26:20.638377705Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://prisminference.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-06T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:58.310470594Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.prisminference.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:15.357311357Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "184a0fafdb8c" }, { "url": "https://prisminference.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:20.103073255Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dffb5d16a3c8" }, { "url": "https://prisminference.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:22.266572016Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "64ea7b8f1b7b" }, { "url": "https://prisminference.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:24.296415884Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "27dd15c69f49" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:08:56.350063654Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model router", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Antseed Foundation", "b": "Prism Technologies Inc", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.prisminference.com/v1", "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": "Proprietary service under Prism's terms of service. The OpenAPI file declares `LicenseRef-Proprietary`. The Hermes provider plugin repository carries no licence file", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-08", "b": "2026-10-06", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-15", "b": "2026-09-09", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-09", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Prism Inference scores 60.1 (C) 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 Prism Inference?" }, { "answer": "Antseed needs no key. Prism Inference needs an API key.", "question": "Do Antseed and Prism Inference need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. Prism Inference has a hosted endpoint at https://api.prisminference.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Antseed and Prism Inference 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 Prism Inference.", "question": "Are Antseed and Prism Inference open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 70 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 49" ], "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 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, 82 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 68 against 56", "Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 45" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "Coding agents that want DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at a low input price, with no retention, through whichever of the three wire formats the harness already speaks.", "slug": "prism-inference", "watchFor": "Two models. 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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.", "prism-inference": "Three wire formats, a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, per-token prices in a keyless catalogue and zero data retention by default on every tier. The service launched on 24 September 2026 with two models, one of them by request, from a two-person company. No rate-limit numbers, SLA document, free tier or deprecation policy was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference.min.md" }, "markdown": "Prism Inference scores 60.1 (C) 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 #459 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json\n- Prism Inference: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #363 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prism-inference.json\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 49\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 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### Prism Inference (C)\n\nGood for: Coding agents that want DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at a low input price, with no retention, through whichever of the three wire formats the harness already speaks.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 65 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Two models. The docs mark Gemma 4 31B as request access per organisation, while llms.txt and the keyless catalogue list it as available\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Antseed | Prism Inference | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 65 | Prism Inference +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 82 | Prism Inference +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 68 | Prism Inference +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 65 | Prism Inference +20 |\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 | 49 | Antseed +30 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 61 | Prism Inference +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **60.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Antseed | Prism Inference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Prism Technologies Inc |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.prisminference.com/v1` |\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 | Proprietary service under Prism's terms of service. The OpenAPI file declares `LicenseRef-Proprietary`. The Hermes provider plugin repository carries no licence file |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | 2026-09-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\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**Prism Inference.** Three wire formats, a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, per-token prices in a keyless catalogue and zero data retention by default on every tier. The service launched on 24 September 2026 with two models, one of them by request, from a two-person company. No rate-limit numbers, SLA document, free tier or deprecation policy was found.\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### Prism Inference\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.prisminference.com/v1/models` at start-up, with no key, and use only ids it returns. Expect 403 on `gemma-4-31b` without organisation access\n2. Use base URL `https://api.prisminference.com/v1` for OpenAI clients and `https://api.prisminference.com` with no `/v1` for Anthropic clients\n3. Read `error.retryable` before retrying, and wait for `Retry-After` on 429, which covers both key limits and model capacity\n4. Send `reasoning_effort: \"none\"` or `low` when latency matters. Reasoning is on by default and its tokens are billed as output\n5. Keep conversation state yourself and send `store: false` on Responses. `previous_response_id`, stored responses and hosted tools aren't supported\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or Prism Inference?\n\nPrism Inference scores 60.1 (C) 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 Prism Inference need an API key?\n\nAntseed needs no key. Prism Inference needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Antseed and Prism Inference without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. Prism Inference has a hosted endpoint at https://api.prisminference.com/v1.\n\n### Are Antseed and Prism Inference 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 Prism Inference.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-prism-inference.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"antseed\", \"b\": \"prism-inference\"}`. 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