# Antseed vs SambaCloud (slim)

> 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 & pricing. Both do llm inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing. Both do llm inference.

- Antseed: C 55.1, rank #599 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.min.md
- SambaCloud: B 66.4, rank #269 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Antseed, good for Agents and coding tools that want pay-per-request inference with no account, and owners comfortable holding USDC on Base. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 70 against 40. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- SambaCloud, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 62; Schema & documentation, 81 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 56; Security & auth, 58 against 45. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Antseed | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 70 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Antseed | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2023-05-27 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |