# Baseten vs Massed Compute (slim)

> Baseten scores 66.5 (B) to Massed Compute's 42.3 (E) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Massed Compute's 42.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do gpu compute.

- Baseten: B 66.5, rank #285 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md
- Massed Compute: E 42.3, rank #896 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.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 20; Schema & documentation, 84 against 69; Security & auth, 82 against 61; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 90 against 51. Also Open source.
- Massed Compute, good for Agents that rent whole GPU VMs by the hour for training, fine-tuning or a model server and want a small MCP tool set with a read-only mode.

| Category | Baseten | Massed Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 51 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baseten | Massed Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baseten | Massed Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for gpu compute | not published | $5.43 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Massed Compute's Terms & Conditions and End User Licence Agreement. The `massed-compute-mcp` wrapper on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 17 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Massed-Compute/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-07-24 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-07-22 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |