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      "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"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@antseed/cli"
        }
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      "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": []
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        "githubStars": 106,
        "npmWeekly": 1823,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "docsUrl": "https://antseed.com/docs/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://antseed.com/llms.txt",
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        "inference.router",
        "inference.llm"
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        "open-source",
        "local",
        "p2p",
        "usdc",
        "base",
        "no-signup",
        "no-card",
        "openai-compatible",
        "anthropic-compatible",
        "llms-txt",
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        "desktop",
        "pre-1.0"
      ],
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55.1,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 599,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "ergonomics": 56,
          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 70,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 45,
          "transparency": 59
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          "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
        },
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        "avgRating": 0,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.1
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        "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"
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      "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"
        }
      ],
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        "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."
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        "score": 52
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "Antseed/antseed",
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          "url": "https://antseed.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:32.487292893Z"
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      "name": "SambaCloud",
      "vendor": "SambaNova Systems, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://sambanova.ai",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "SambaCloud is SambaNova's hosted inference API for open-weight models running on its own RDU processors. It answers OpenAI-style chat, completions and Responses calls and Anthropic-style Messages calls, with Python and TypeScript SDKs.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova",
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      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sambanova.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/sambanova/sambanova-python",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0",
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          "name": "sambanova"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "sambanova"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve Bearer key from the SambaCloud console at https://cloud.sambanova.ai/apis after a browser sign-up. The Messages routes also take the same key in `x-api-key`. Up to 25 keys per user, shown once, with no scopes.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free tier with no payment method, at 20 requests a minute, 20 requests a day and 200,000 tokens a day per model. Linking a card moves the account to the Developer tier, billed per token through Stripe, from $0.22 in and $0.59 out per 1M tokens on gpt-oss-120b (https://cloud.sambanova.ai/plans/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).",
      "priceSummary": "from $0.22 / 1M in",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": 76,
        "pypiWeekly": 6129,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/get-started/overview",
      "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/rate-limits",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sambanova/sambanova-inference-api-spec/refs/heads/main/openapi.documented.json",
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        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openai-compatible",
        "anthropic-compatible",
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        "typescript",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 63
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        "assessment": {
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          "date": "2026-10-08"
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          "2026-10-08. The models and rate-limit pages list `MiniMax-M2.7` as a production model, and the July 2026 release notes say `Mistral-Large-3-675B-Instruct-2512` was promoted to production. Neither is on the pricing page or in `/v1/models`, and the deprecations page records neither. Two points, since a keyed call was not made to confirm the ids fail (https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/sambacloud-models, https://api.sambanova.ai/v1/models)."
        ],
        "verdict": "Per-token prices and the model list are readable without a key at `/v1/models`, and a free tier needs no card. Production models get two to three weeks' notice before removal, 13 model ids left between March and June 2026, and the docs disagree with the live catalogue on MiniMax-M2.7.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API.",
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          "`GET /v1/models` answers without a key and returns context length, output cap and per-token prices for each model",
          "Free tier with no payment method at 20 requests a minute, 20 requests a day and 200,000 tokens a day per model",
          "One key works with the OpenAI client, the Anthropic client (`/v1/messages`, `x-api-key`) and SambaNova's own SDKs",
          "Status page with a component per model and no incident posted since 25 June 2026"
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          "Production models get a notice of two to three weeks, and 13 model ids were removed between 9 March and 9 June 2026",
          "The docs list `MiniMax-M2.7` as a production model, while the pricing page and `/v1/models` did not list it on 8 October 2026",
          "`strict: true` on a JSON schema is accepted and has no effect, and the July 2026 notes record failing structured output on DeepSeek-V3.2",
          "Keys carry no scopes or project limits, and no key rotation guidance was found in the reviewed documentation",
          "The privacy policy is dated 27 May 2023, and no DPA, retention period or sub-processor list was found on the legal page"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call `GET https://api.sambanova.ai/v1/models` at start-up and use only ids it returns. The docs name models the endpoint no longer lists",
          "Read `x-ratelimit-remaining-requests` and `x-ratelimit-remaining-requests-day` on every response. The free tier allows 20 requests a day per model",
          "Treat 429 `queue_full` and 503 `maintenance` as retryable after a delay, and 410 `model_deprecated` as a signal to change model",
          "Validate JSON output yourself. Schema enforcement is best effort and `strict: true` changes nothing",
          "Check `max_completion_tokens` per model. DeepSeek-V3.1 caps output at 7,168 tokens and Llama 3.3 70B at 3,072"
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 44
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        "domain": "sambanova.ai",
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        "terms": "https://sambanova.ai/cloud-end-user-license-agreement",
        "privacy": "https://sambanova.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.sambanova.ai",
        "changelog": "https://docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/release-notes/sambacloud",
        "securityTxt": "none",
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        "notes": [
          "The SambaCloud Terms of Service name SambaNova Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 2460 N. First St, Suite #100, San Jose, CA 95131, and define the Service as the SambaCloud platform. The page carries no date. The legal index says it was last updated on 5 February 2026.",
          "The privacy policy is the company's only one. Its last revision is dated 27 May 2023, it covers the website, communications and related services, and it does not name SambaCloud or API inputs.",
          "No DPA, SLA, acceptable use policy or sub-processor list is linked from https://sambanova.ai/legal-agreements.",
          "https://sambanova.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.",
          "RDAP for sambanova.ai gives a registration date of 2017-12-18.",
          "The API answers at api.sambanova.ai and the console at cloud.sambanova.ai."
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        "score": 81
      },
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        "name": "Kind"
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      {
        "a": "Antseed Foundation",
        "b": "SambaNova Systems, Inc.",
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      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "API key",
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        "a": "Pay per use",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
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      {
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        "b": "Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
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        "a": "2026-10-08",
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        "name": "Last release"
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        "a": "2026-05-15",
        "b": "no date given",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
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        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "2023-05-27",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
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      },
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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  "markdown": "SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Antseed: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #599 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/antseed.json\n- SambaCloud: grade B, 66.4/100, rank #269 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sambanova.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 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\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### SambaCloud (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 62\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 56\n- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Production models get a notice of two to three weeks, and 13 model ids were removed between 9 March and 9 June 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Antseed | SambaCloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 85 | SambaCloud +23 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 81 | SambaCloud +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 67 | SambaCloud +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 58 | SambaCloud +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 70 | 40 | Antseed +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 77 | Antseed +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 63 | SambaCloud +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **66.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Antseed | SambaCloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model router | Model API |\n| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\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 the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2023-05-27 |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\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 | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |\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**SambaCloud.** Per-token prices and the model list are readable without a key at `/v1/models`, and a free tier needs no card. Production models get two to three weeks' notice before removal, 13 model ids left between March and June 2026, and the docs disagree with the live catalogue on MiniMax-M2.7.\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### SambaCloud\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.sambanova.ai/v1/models` at start-up and use only ids it returns. The docs name models the endpoint no longer lists\n2. Read `x-ratelimit-remaining-requests` and `x-ratelimit-remaining-requests-day` on every response. The free tier allows 20 requests a day per model\n3. Treat 429 `queue_full` and 503 `maintenance` as retryable after a delay, and 410 `model_deprecated` as a signal to change model\n4. Validate JSON output yourself. Schema enforcement is best effort and `strict: true` changes nothing\n5. Check `max_completion_tokens` per model. DeepSeek-V3.1 caps output at 7,168 tokens and Llama 3.3 70B at 3,072\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Antseed or SambaCloud?\n\nSambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Antseed's 55.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Antseed leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Antseed and SambaCloud need an API key?\n\nAntseed needs no key. SambaCloud needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Antseed and SambaCloud without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Antseed. SambaCloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sambanova.ai/v1.\n\n### Are Antseed and SambaCloud 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 SambaCloud.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-sambanova.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-sambanova.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"antseed\", \"b\": \"sambanova\"}`. 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