Head to head · LLM inference · October 2026 research run
BlockRun.AI vs Tencent Cloud TokenHub
BlockRun.AI scores 78.9 (A) on agent readiness against Tencent Cloud TokenHub's 59.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tencent Cloud TokenHub leads on security & auth. Both do llm inference. BlockRun.AI accepts x402. Tencent Cloud TokenHub doesn't.
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Which one, for what
Best for Agents that must start and pay with no human sign-up, and builders testing x402 against a real inference gateway.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 65 against 46
- Schema & documentation, 90 against 73
- Agent ergonomics, 88 against 83
- Payments & pricing, 100 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 73
- Transparency & trust, 73 against 54
Also in its favour
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- An agent can pay per call over x402, with no account
- Runs on your own machine
- No incidents deducted, where Tencent Cloud TokenHub loses 3 points for them
Watch for
Since 21 October 2026 prompts and completions sent through the Base, Arc and API gateways are stored with no fixed expiry
Best for Teams in or near Tencent Cloud that want one key and bill for Tencent's Hy models and Chinese open-weight models (DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Qwen, MiMo) with per-key limits and CNY billing.
Ahead on
- Security & auth, 71 against 61
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
Watch for
Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification. The international site answered with a bot check, so access from outside China was not established
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Payments & pricing BlockRun.AI +65
BlockRun.AI 100
x402 v2 on its own gateway, USDC on Base and Solana, and since MCP 0.55.0 (28 October) on Circle's Arc through arc.blockrun.ai (40). Per-token prices per model published without a login, plus a flat $0.001 fee per wallet call on Base (20). Seven free models per the status page's menu, no card or sign-up, and a wallet costs nothing to create (20). An agent can create its own wallet and pay per request with no human sign-up (20). 40 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 100.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 35
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for every model are public in CNY for Guangzhou and Singapore, with DeepSeek's peak and off-peak rates (20). Each account gets 1M free tokens per language model, valid for a year, in a campaign running to 31 December 2026. No card is mentioned, but the account needs real-name verification, so this line takes 15 of 20. A person signs up and completes real-name verification in a browser. Keys can then be created in code or by thcli auth login, but only from that account (0).
Reliability BlockRun.AI +19
BlockRun.AI 65
Read with the local-software lines, as the listing's kind is mcp and the owner runs the server over stdio, though every paid call lands on BlockRun's gateway (the reading assymetrix-mcp and copilot-studio-mcp get). The 1 October check read it as a router. Installs from the official npm package @blockrun/mcp with Node 20.19 or later stated in engines (20). The CI workflow runs typecheck, build and tests on Node 20.19 and 22 on every push and pull request, with a required gate job. Run results weren't readable, as GitHub's pages answered 403 (20 of 25). Open issues couldn't be read. The changelog names numbered reports fixed in releases, such as #176 and #177 in 0.54.3 and 0.54.4 (10 of 25). Semver numbering with breaking changes marked BREAKING in CHANGELOG.md and shipped as minor bumps, as its own entries say (15). Version 0.55.0, pre-1.0 (0). 20 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 0 = 65. For the gateway behind it, blockrun.ai/status still shows live checks of the Base and Solana gateways and says "None recorded on this page yet" under incident history, the terms still say "We do not commit to any particular uptime", and free models are limited to 30 requests a minute and 300 an hour per IP with 429s carrying Retry-After.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 46
Hosted reading. No public status page was found. status.cloud.tencent.com did not answer and the Tencent Cloud health dashboard documentation answered with a bot check (0). With no page there is no incident record to read (5 of 30). The announcements carry one incident, DeepSeek's directly supplied models unavailable from 9:06 to 13:04 Beijing time on 15 October 2026 after a fault at DeepSeek, compensated with vouchers. Rate limits are per model, shown in the console and returned by DescribeModelQuota. The public docs give numbers only for batch jobs (20 created a minute, 10 active), image models (5 concurrent) and DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro (2,500 and 500 concurrent), with the rules for self-serve increases (8 of 15). Six 429 codes separate RPM, TPM, TPD, concurrency and upstream capacity, 429s may carry Retry-After and the docs advise exponential backoff. No idempotency guidance, though inference calls are not writes (13 of 15). The TokenHub SLA promises 99.5% monthly availability with vouchers of 10, 25 or 50 per cent of the month's fee. It excludes free use and third-party deployed models such as DeepSeek's directly supplied ones (10). Generally available since 7 April 2026, with some models marked preview (10).
Transparency & trust BlockRun.AI +19
BlockRun.AI 73
The editorial half. The MCP server and SDKs are MIT and the gateway is closed. The listing is graded as the MCP server, so 30 as assymetrix-mcp got for an MIT server in front of a closed API (was 15 under the router reading). The terms and privacy policy, both last updated 21 October 2026, now name the same entity, BlockRun, Inc., as contracting party and data controller. The privacy policy now says prompts, completions and tool calls to blockrun.ai, arc.blockrun.ai, nano.blockrun.ai and api.blockrun.ai are stored with the paying wallet or account and kept "until we delete it; it has no fixed expiry", usage records and connection metadata for 13 months, while the Solana gateway keeps no request content. The 1 October policy said prompts weren't stored past the request and metadata was kept 30 days. The documents agree with each other, but content has no retention period and no subprocessors are named (18 of 30, was 20). No deprecation policy, and the terms say a provider may withdraw a model at any time. Removals are dated in the changelog, such as Gemma 4 31B delisted on 2 October, the same day (5 of 20). Upstream providers are named and Google Analytics is disclosed with its cookies and retention. Data locations aren't stated, and whether the MCP server sends telemetry wasn't read (10 of 20). 30 + 18 + 5 + 10 = 63.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 54
Closed service under the TokenHub Terms of Service (effective 14 September 2026), the SLA (23 April 2026), a special note on third-party deployed models and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, naming Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The CLI is Apache-2.0 (18 of 30). The terms and the FAQ agree that inputs are processed on the customer's instructions and not used for training, and clause 2.14 limits retention to what the service needs without periods. The TokenHub privacy policy on privacy.qq.com renders only with JavaScript and was not read (15 of 30). Dated retirement notices, shutdown dates in the model list, a pre-offline status in /v1/models and a DiscontinuedAt field in the control API. Clause 6.3 refunds paid, unused tokens when a third-party model is removed. No minimum notice period is written (13 of 20). Clause 2.13 places processing generally in mainland China for the China site and in Singapore for the international site, and the third-party model list names DeepSeek's Hangzhou company with a link to its terms. No subprocessor list was found (13 of 20).
Schema & documentation BlockRun.AI +17
BlockRun.AI 90
MCP reading. All 19 tools take zod input schemas, which the MCP SDK turns into JSON Schema, per the 1 October read of the source (25, was 10 for the gateway's OpenAPI document, which robots.txt still keeps our reader out of under /api/). llms.txt served at blockrun.ai/llms.txt (10). The tool descriptions state purpose and order of use, such as 'discover markets ... with blockrun_markets first' and 'Run action:"setup" FIRST', per the 1 October check (15 of 20). Enums and numeric bounds, but seven fields across six tools take a free-form z.any() JSON body, per the 1 October check (10 of 15). The docs have an error reference with codes per status and recovery steps, and the README has examples for each client (15). A dated gateway changelog, last entry 25 October 2026, and a CHANGELOG.md in the MCP repository through 0.55.0 (15). 25 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 90.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 73
Router, scored on the API lines. No OpenAPI file for the inference routes. Field pages document the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages formats as TokenHub implements them, and the control plane is a Tencent Cloud API 3.0 service (version 2026-03-22) with typed parameters, API Explorer and SDKs (12 of 25). An llms.txt at cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1823/llms.txt links a Markdown copy of each docs page (10). The docs say which models support thinking, tools, structured output and caching, how TokenHub departs from each standard protocol, and which DeepSeek model suits which job. The quickstart's examples still use deepseek-v3, which is not in the model list, and Qwen3.5 stays in the list with a past shutdown date (13 of 20). Protocol pages list each field with type, required flag and default, and control-plane parameters carry enums and required flags (10 of 15). Examples in curl, Python, Node.js, Java and Go, and an error page listing 30 codes with HTTP status, cause and fix (14 of 15). Paths carry /v1, release notes are dated monthly from 7 April to 24 October 2026, and the control-plane API has a dated history of 26 releases to 18 September 2026 (14 of 15).
Maintenance & community BlockRun.AI +12
BlockRun.AI 85
MCP reading. @blockrun/mcp 0.55.0 published to the official MCP registry on 28 October 2026, and a gateway changelog entry on 25 October (30). 40 registry versions from 0.35.0 on 3 August to 0.55.0 (20). Issue replies couldn't be read, as GitHub's issue pages answered 403; the changelog credits numbered reports fixed within releases (10 of 25). Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.BlockRunAI/blockrun-mcp, a GitHub-verified namespace, active, with 0.55.0 marked latest (15). CI on Node 20.19 and 22 with typecheck and tests on every pull request, and a Renovate configuration in the repository (10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 85.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 73
Closed service, read on the model lines. The newest release note is dated 24 October 2026 and the price page was updated on 31 October (30). The four retirement notices read gave 21 to 33 days, and eligible callers are switched to a successor at its price. No minimum notice period is written, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (directly supplied) was moved to the 1017 version under the same ids on 17 October 2026 in a notice dated two days later (7 of 12). 18 retirement notices from 21 April to 22 October 2026, 12 of them since 3 August (3 of 8). Dated release notes and announcements, ticket and phone support around the clock and a Q&A community (13 of 15). Replies on the THCLI repository were not sampled (3 of 10). Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 in several languages covers the control plane and tencent-tokenhub-cli 1.0.2 was published on 30 October 2026. No inference SDK of its own (12 of 15). The CLI has four releases since 15 September 2026, lists no runtime dependencies and needs Node.js 18 or later. CI not checked (5 of 10).
Security & auth Tencent Cloud TokenHub +10
BlockRun.AI 61
MCP and API reading. The credential is a wallet private key, auto-created at ~/.blockrun/.session or passed in an environment variable and optionally mirrored to the OS keychain, and it controls the whole balance. blockrun_wallet can delegate a capped budget to a child agent, and an API-key route backed by account credit exists (20 of 30, as on 1 October). blockrun_polymarket_read gives read-only positions and previews apart from the trading tool, trades need confirm:true with a $25 default order cap, --profile drops whole groups of tools, and BLOCKRUN_CONFIRM_SPEND=on pauses every paid call for approval, though it's off by default (16 of 20). Search, Exa, market and RPC tools return third-party content, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the README or docs read (5, as knock and suprsend). Every payment settles on-chain and the wallet tool reports balances and spending (10 of 15). security.txt is valid on 1 November, with an email contact, a policy link and an Expires date of 1 November 2027, and SECURITY.md takes private GitHub reports with a 72-hour acknowledgement and a 7-day plan for fund-affecting issues. No bounty or certification found (10). 20 + 16 + 5 + 10 + 10 = 61.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub 71
Router, read on the model lines. Bearer keys can be limited to chosen models and inference services, up to 200 source IP ranges and daily, monthly or total token quotas, can be disabled or deleted, and can be created in code through CreateApiKey with signed Tencent Cloud credentials. Keys are long-lived with no expiry setting or built-in rotation (26 of 30). Clause 2.17 of the terms says inputs are not used to train Tencent Cloud's own models, and the FAQ says data is not used for training. Inputs to third-party deployed models (DeepSeek's directly supplied ones) go to DeepSeek under its terms (14 of 20). Clause 2.14 keeps data only as long as the service needs, with no periods stated. When a customer asks for generated content without AI labels, Tencent Cloud keeps logs of who received it for at least six months. No zero-retention option was found (7 of 15). Per-call audit logs (request ID, key, client IP, status, tokens, latency) and optional full call logs go to the customer's CLS, billed separately, with usage by key and a monitoring dashboard (14 of 15). No security.txt on cloud.tencent.com, www.tencent.com or tokenhub.tencentmaas.com (404). Tencent's bug bounty through TSRC lists Tencent Cloud in scope. No certification for TokenHub was checked (10 of 20).
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | BlockRun.AI | Tencent Cloud TokenHub | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 65 | 46 | BlockRun.AI +19 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 90 | 73 | BlockRun.AI +17 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 88 | 83 | BlockRun.AI +5 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 61 | 71 | Tencent Cloud TokenHub +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 100 | 35 | BlockRun.AI +65 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 85 | 73 | BlockRun.AI +12 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 73 | 54 | BlockRun.AI +19 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| Total | A 78.9/100 | C 59.5/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | BlockRun.AI | Tencent Cloud TokenHub |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | MCP server | Model router |
| Vendor | BlockRun, Inc. | Tencent Cloud |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1 |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | yes | no |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under the TokenHub Terms of Service, the TokenHub SLA and the Tencent Cloud Service Agreement, with a special note for third-party deployed models. The tencent-tokenhub-cli package is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 19 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | io.github.BlockRunAI/blockrun-mcp | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-02 | couldn't be read |
| 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 | not found in the text | 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 | 5 stars, 679 PyPI/wk | 204 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |
How the scores have moved
Verdicts
BlockRun.AI
x402 v2 on its own gateway lets an agent create a wallet and pay per call in USDC on Base, Solana or Arc with no sign-up, and every MCP tool carries a safety annotation. Since 21 October 2026 prompts sent through the Base and Arc gateways are stored with no fixed expiry, and the status page keeps no incident history.
Tencent Cloud TokenHub
Keys can be limited to chosen models, source IPs and token quotas, errors name their source and code, and a 99.5% SLA covers paid use of models Tencent runs. Sign-up needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification, prices are in CNY, no public status page was found, and 18 model retirement notices ran from April to October 2026.
Before you call either
BlockRun.AI
- Fund a dedicated wallet with a small USDC balance. The balance is the spending cap
- Use the Solana gateway when prompts must not be stored. Base and Arc keep request content with no fixed expiry
- Start the server with
--profilefor the job (chat, research, media or trading) to cut the tool definitions - Set
BLOCKRUN_CONFIRM_SPEND=onto approve each paid call. It's off by default - Call
blockrun_modelsbefore hard-coding a model name, since models are removed without notice
Tencent Cloud TokenHub
- Use
https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1with keys made for Guangzhou andhttps://tokenhub-intl.tencentmaas.com/v1with keys made for Singapore. Keys do not work across the two - Send the key as
Authorization: Beareron the OpenAI paths and asx-api-keyon/v1/messages - Parse
error.codeas a string or a number, since 429 codes can come back as integers, and wait forRetry-Afterbefore retrying - Take model ids from
GET /v1/modelsand watch forpre-offline. The quickstart'sdeepseek-v3example is not in the current model list - Expect DeepSeek prices to double on weekdays from 9am to noon and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time, when the peak rate applies
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, BlockRun.AI or Tencent Cloud TokenHub?
BlockRun.AI scores 78.9 (A) on agent readiness against Tencent Cloud TokenHub's 59.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tencent Cloud TokenHub leads on security & auth.
Do BlockRun.AI and Tencent Cloud TokenHub need an API key?
BlockRun.AI takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Tencent Cloud TokenHub needs an API key. An agent can also pay BlockRun.AI per call over x402, with no account.
Can an agent call BlockRun.AI and Tencent Cloud TokenHub without installing anything?
BlockRun.AI runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Tencent Cloud TokenHub has a hosted endpoint at https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1.
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