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          "Ten status incidents in two months, including a two-day regional outage in August 2026",
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          "Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with `global/rate-limited`",
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          "List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lambda.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Baseten for reliability (+30), schema \u0026 documentation (+15), security \u0026 auth (+22), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+85), transparency \u0026 trust (+8).\n\nPick Lambda Cloud for agent ergonomics (+8).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baseten | Lambda Cloud | 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 | 69 | Baseten +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 63 | Lambda Cloud +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 82 | 60 | Baseten +22 |\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 | 5 | Baseten +85 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 59 | Baseten +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **50.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baseten | Lambda Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Baseten | Lambda |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | none |\n| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\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**Lambda Cloud.** H100 SXM at $3.99 and B200 at $6.69 an hour with per-minute billing. No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated.\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### Lambda Cloud\n\n1. Call `GET /instance-types` first and read `regions_with_capacity_available` before trying to launch\n2. Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with `global/rate-limited`\n3. Branch on the error `code`, not the `message` or `suggestion`, which Lambda says may change\n4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine\n5. Terminate the instance in a `finally` block; billing runs by the minute until you do\n\n## Other comparisons with Baseten or Lambda Cloud\n\n- [Baseten vs Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.md)\n- [Baseten vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Baseten vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-modal.md)\n- [Baseten vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Baseten vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Baseten vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Beam vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Koyeb vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-modal.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-runpod.md)\n",
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