# Baseten vs Verda (slim)

> Baseten scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Verda's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Verda leads on agent ergonomics and 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 Verda's 62.3 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Verda leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do compute gpu.

- Baseten: B 66.5, rank #264 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md
- Verda: B 62.3, rank #396 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.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 67; Security & auth, 82 against 68; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 90 against 83. Also Open source.
- Verda, good for Agents that rent whole GPU machines or clusters in Finland for training or batch work, or deploy scale-to-zero container endpoints, and that can run a local CLI for MCP. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 63 against 55; Transparency & trust, 76 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Baseten | Verda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 65 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Baseten | Verda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Baseten | Verda |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.baseten.co` | `https://api.verda.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 18 |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-09-30 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.2k stars, 74k PyPI/wk | 10k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |