# Baseten vs CoreWeave (slim)

> 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 & trust. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & trust. Both do compute gpu.

- Baseten: B 66.5, rank #215 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md
- CoreWeave: C 61.5, rank #323 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.min.md
- Baseten, good for Teams that want one model behind a production endpoint with real autoscaling knobs, environments and scoped keys. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 50; Schema & documentation, 84 against 79; Security & auth, 82 against 74; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 90 against 80. Also Open source.
- CoreWeave, good for Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 77 against 65. Also No incidents deducted, where Baseten loses 5 points for them.

| Category | Baseten | CoreWeave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 58 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baseten | CoreWeave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baseten | CoreWeave, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://api.coreweave.com` |
| Auth | API key | Token |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 38 |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2022-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-02-24 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |