{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "baseten", "name": "Baseten", "vendor": "Baseten", "vendorUrl": "https://www.baseten.co", "kind": "http-api", "category": "gpu-compute", "summary": "Dedicated model deployments packaged with the open-source Truss framework and served behind a per-model HTTPS endpoint, with autoscaling from zero replicas, async inference, a management API and per-minute GPU billing from T4 to B200.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baseten.json", "repo": "https://github.com/basetenlabs/truss", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.baseten.co", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "truss" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key from the workspace settings, sent as `Authorization: Bearer $BASETEN_API_KEY` (preferred) or the legacy `Authorization: Api-Key` scheme. Keys created from 1 October 2026 carry a `b10_` prefix. Inference goes to model-\u003cid\u003e.api.baseten.co and management calls to api.baseten.co.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Basic is $0 a month, pay as you go; Pro and Enterprise add volume discounts. Dedicated deployments bill per minute of replica time, including start-up and idle, and nothing at zero replicas. T4 16 GiB $0.01052 a minute (about $0.63 an hour), L4 24 GiB $0.01414 ($0.85), A10G 24 GiB $0.02012 ($1.21), H100 MIG 40 GiB $0.0625 ($3.75), A100 80 GiB $0.06667 ($4.00), H100 80 GiB $0.10833 ($6.50), B200 180 GiB $0.16633 ($9.98). New accounts get a small credit to try the UI. Model APIs bill per token instead (https://www.baseten.co/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1200, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 74496, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.baseten.co", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.baseten.co/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.baseten.co/v1/spec", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.endpoints", "compute.serverless", "compute.containers" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "python", "llms-txt", "open-source", "async-jobs", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 233, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 84, "security": 82, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "-5: a GitHub personal access token for `basetenbot`, exposed in a public Harbor image since March 2023, gave admin and push access to Baseten's main product repository, the GitOps repository that drives its clusters, its Homebrew tap and per-customer private repositories. Reported on 2026-07-13, revoked on 2026-07-14, no misuse found, published with Baseten's approval in September 2026. Deducted less because the fix was quick and documented (https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover)" ], "verdict": "Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026. 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The privacy policy gives 560 Davis St., Suite 250, San Francisco.", "Inference runs on model-\u003cid\u003e.api.baseten.co, a subdomain of the vendor domain.", "www.baseten.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.", "The .co registry's RDAP server couldn't be reached, so the registration date is unrecorded." ], "score": 71 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.json", "live": { "slug": "baseten", "probe": { "target": "https://api.baseten.co", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T19:52:45.872637881Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 202, "lastMs": 454, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 460, "p95ms24h": 519, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1941, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 225, "ok": 225 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.baseten.co", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:50:26.050899126Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "basetenlabs/truss", "version": "v0.18.33", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:02:10.626982738Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "truss", "version": "0.18.33", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:02:06.626291704Z" } ], "githubStars": 1214, "pypiWeekly": 62737, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://baseten.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:37.892521999Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.baseten.co/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:06.558742297Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "baseten.co", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:05.701625104Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:31.551352111Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:14:05.469135663Z", "fingerprint": "fcc7d4bab97d" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:33.809519828Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:14:07.823033015Z", "fingerprint": "e41ad7119a6b" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:35.678713031Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:14:09.752979771Z", "fingerprint": "09df4e188f65" }, { "url": "https://www.baseten.co/terms-and-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:38.014111749Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:14:11.853258349Z", "fingerprint": "a8b301619021" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:52:45.872637881Z" } }, "answer": "Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "coreweave", "name": "CoreWeave", "vendor": "CoreWeave, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.coreweave.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "gpu-compute", "summary": "CoreWeave is a GPU cloud that rents NVIDIA GPU nodes through a managed Kubernetes service (CKS), with REST and gRPC platform APIs, a Terraform provider and a hosted MCP server for observability.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coreweave.json", "repo": "https://github.com/coreweave/terraform-provider-coreweave", "license": "Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.coreweave.com", "packages": [], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "Access starts with sales approval. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails an activation link, then a user with the Access Token User role creates an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with a name and an expiry. The token is user-scoped, shown once, revocable in the console and sent as `Authorization: Bearer` to api.coreweave.com, to a CKS cluster's Kubernetes API (through a kubeconfig) and to the Mission Control MCP server. What it can do follows the user's IAM roles, which include a Viewer and an Admin role per service. CKS workloads can also use OIDC workload identity federation. Serverless Inference takes a separate Forge API key.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Per instance-hour, published without a login. On demand in North America, HGX H100 (8 GPUs) $49.24, HGX H200 $50.44, HGX B200 $68.80, A100 $21.60, L40S $18.00, L40 $10.00, GB200 NVL72 (4 GPUs) $42.00 and GH200 (1 GPU) $6.50, with spot rates on most. GB300 NVL72 and HGX B300 on demand are quoted by sales. Reserved capacity is discounted by up to 60 per cent through sales. AI Object Storage is $0.06 a GB-month hot, $0.03 warm and $0.015 cold, distributed file storage $0.07, and egress, VPC and the CKS control plane are free. No free tier or self-serve trial was found, and the terms treat any trial as part of the sales-run ARENA programme (https://www.coreweave.com/pricing, https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API references or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 38, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.coreweave.com/", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.coreweave.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.coreweave.com/products/cks/reference/cks-api", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.containers", "compute.endpoints", "compute.batch" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "enterprise", "sales-led", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "terraform", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 363, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 58, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 20, "reliability": 50, "schema": 79, "security": 74, "transparency": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.", "bestFor": "Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.", "strengths": [ "On-demand and spot prices per instance-hour are public, for example HGX H100 at $49.24 on demand and $19.71 spot for 8 GPUs", "Docs are served as Markdown with an llms.txt index, and OpenAPI 3.0 specs for CKS, VPC, storage and inference are embedded in the reference pages", "IAM has Viewer and Admin roles per service, API tokens carry an expiry, and Kubernetes audit logs can be forwarded with Telemetry Relay", "Terms carry a service level objective of 99.9 per cent across multiple regions and 99 per cent in one, with financial credits", "Dated changelog with 18 entries between 10 July and 2 October 2026, and a Terraform provider tagged v0.24.0 on 11 September 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created", "No request rate limits, 429 guidance or idempotency keys found for api.coreweave.com in the reviewed documentation", "The CKS API is versioned v1beta1 and the Node Pool resource and Dedicated Inference API v1alpha1", "Three incidents between 26 September and 6 October 2026, including a US-CENTRAL-09A network outage of over two hours on 5 October", "The MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` ignores its `dry_run` parameter and applies the manifest, per the tool reference" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com", "Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards", "Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour", "Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied", "Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. 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A vulnerability disclosure policy is published in the docs.", "The APIs run on api.coreweave.com and mc.coreweave.com. 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CoreWeave leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Baseten or CoreWeave?" }, { "answer": "Baseten needs an API key. CoreWeave needs an access token.", "question": "Do Baseten and CoreWeave need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Baseten has a hosted endpoint at https://api.baseten.co and CoreWeave at https://api.coreweave.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Baseten and CoreWeave without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Baseten is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for CoreWeave.", "question": "Are Baseten and CoreWeave open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 80 against 50", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 79", "Security \u0026 auth, 82 against 74", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 80" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want one model behind a production endpoint with real autoscaling knobs, environments and scoped keys.", "slug": "baseten", "watchFor": "H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 65" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Baseten loses 5 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.", "slug": "coreweave", "watchFor": "No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created" } ], "job": { "capability": "compute.gpu", "name": "Compute gpu" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.json", "title": "Baseten vs Beam", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-cerebrium.json", "title": "Baseten vs Cerebrium", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-cerebrium" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-koyeb.json", "title": "Baseten vs Koyeb", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-koyeb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-lambda.json", "title": "Baseten vs Lambda Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-lambda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-modal.json", "title": "Baseten vs Modal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-modal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-northflank.json", "title": "Baseten vs Northflank", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-northflank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-replicate-deploy.json", "title": "Baseten vs Replicate Deployments", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-replicate-deploy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-runpod.json", "title": "Baseten vs Runpod", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-runpod" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-vast-ai.json", "title": "Baseten vs Vast.ai", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-vast-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.json", "title": "Beam vs CoreWeave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-coreweave.json", "title": "Cerebrium vs CoreWeave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-coreweave" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-koyeb.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Koyeb", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-koyeb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-lambda.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Lambda Cloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-lambda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-modal.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Modal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-modal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-northflank.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Northflank", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-northflank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-replicate-deploy.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Replicate Deployments", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-replicate-deploy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-runpod.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Runpod", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-runpod" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-vast-ai.json", "title": "CoreWeave vs Vast.ai", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-vast-ai" } ], "scores": [ { "baseten": 80, "by": 30, "coreweave": 50, "edge": "baseten", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baseten": 84, "by": 5, "coreweave": 79, "edge": "baseten", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "baseten": 55, "by": 3, "coreweave": 58, "edge": "coreweave", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "baseten": 82, "by": 8, "coreweave": 74, "edge": "baseten", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "baseten": 40, "by": 20, "coreweave": 20, "edge": "baseten", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baseten": 90, "by": 10, "coreweave": 80, "edge": "baseten", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "baseten": 65, "by": 12, "coreweave": 77, "edge": "coreweave", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do compute gpu.", "verdicts": { "baseten": "Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026. H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed.", "coreweave": "Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave.min.md" }, "markdown": "Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do compute gpu.\n\n- Baseten: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #233 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baseten.json\n- CoreWeave: grade C, 61.5/100, rank #363 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coreweave.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Baseten (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one model behind a production endpoint with real autoscaling knobs, environments and scoped keys.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 79\n- Security \u0026 auth, 82 against 74\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 90 against 80\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed\n\n### CoreWeave (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Baseten loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baseten | CoreWeave | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 50 | Baseten +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 79 | Baseten +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 58 | CoreWeave +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 82 | 74 | Baseten +8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Baseten +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 80 | Baseten +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 77 | CoreWeave +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.5 · B** | **61.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baseten | CoreWeave |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Baseten | CoreWeave, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://api.coreweave.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | Token |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 38 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2022-06-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-02-24 |\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 | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Baseten.** Team API keys scoped to inference-only, metrics-only or a single environment or model, plus a Viewer role since 1 September 2026. H100 at $6.50 and A100 at $4.00 an hour, and start-up and idle replica time are billed.\n\n**CoreWeave.** Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Baseten\n\n1. Create a team key with inference-only permission for calling models and keep full-access keys out of the agent\n2. Sleep for `retry_after` seconds on a 429 from api.baseten.co; the activate and deactivate endpoints allow 20 calls a minute\n3. Retry 429, 503 and 529 with backoff, but treat 500 as a bug in your model code\n4. Set `scale_down_delay` below the 900-second default or every burst bills 15 idle minutes\n5. Send payloads over 256 KiB to `/predict`, not `/async_predict`, unless support has raised the async limit\n\n### CoreWeave\n\n1. Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com\n2. Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards\n3. Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour\n4. Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied\n5. Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Baseten or CoreWeave?\n\nBaseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Baseten and CoreWeave need an API key?\n\nBaseten needs an API key. CoreWeave needs an access token.\n\n### Can an agent call Baseten and CoreWeave without installing anything?\n\nYes. Baseten has a hosted endpoint at https://api.baseten.co and CoreWeave at https://api.coreweave.com.\n\n### Are Baseten and CoreWeave open source?\n\nBaseten is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for CoreWeave.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-coreweave.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"baseten\", \"b\": \"coreweave\"}`. 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