# Antseed vs Vercel AI Gateway (slim)

> Vercel AI Gateway scores 66.7 (B) to Antseed's 55.1 (C) for model routing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Vercel AI Gateway scores 66.7 (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 model routing.

- Antseed: C 55.1, rank #741 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/antseed.min.md
- Vercel AI Gateway: B 66.7, rank #302 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.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 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Vercel AI Gateway, good for Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC. Ahead on Reliability, 74 against 62; Schema & documentation, 74 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 83 against 56; Security & auth, 79 against 45; Transparency & trust, 70 against 59. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Antseed | Vercel AI Gateway |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 62 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 83 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 45 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 70 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Antseed | Vercel AI Gateway |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Antseed Foundation | Vercel Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 (LICENSE in the repository). The @antseed/cli manifest on npm carries no licence field | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-15 | 2026-06-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 106 stars, 1.8k npm/wk | 29.6M npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |