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          "Cloud terms returned an empty page to the reader; no public shared-inference SLA was established"
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          "Set CEREBRAS_API_KEY and use https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 with an OpenAI-compatible client.",
          "Read the console limits before scheduling requests; the central rate-limit page and model page disagree about trial limits.",
          "Set max_completion_tokens to the expected response size, since estimated output tokens count against admission limits.",
          "Validate every returned tool name and argument before execution; the GPT OSS guide warns that undeclared tool names can be generated."
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        "privacy": "https://www.cerebras.ai/privacy-policy",
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          "The SDK repository is not the source for the hosted inference service.",
          "Cloud terms at cloud.cerebras.ai/terms returned no readable document; privacy identifies Cerebras Systems Inc.",
          "The well-known security.txt returned 404. The trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II."
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      "name": "Prism Inference",
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      "summary": "Prism is a hosted inference API from Prism Technologies Inc for open-weight models, aimed at coding agents. It accepts OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic Messages requests at api.prisminference.com. It launched on 24 September 2026.",
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          "Every error carries a stable `code`, a `retryable` flag, a `fix` hint and a `docs_url`, and 429 carries `Retry-After` in seconds",
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          "The home page shows a '99.99% Uptime SLA' tile, while the terms say there is no guaranteed uptime without a separate written agreement",
          "No free tier found. Billing is prepaid, a person funds the workspace in a browser, and the agent sign-up key needs an emailed code",
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          "The status page runs on incident.io with one component for each model and no component for the API or the website. Its incidents feed was empty on 8 October 2026.",
          "The YC directory lists Prism in the Spring 2025 batch, in San Francisco, with a team of 2. The home page links an X account named prism_videos, from the company's earlier video product."
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  "markdown": "Cerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Prism Inference's 60.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Prism Inference leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Cerebras Inference: grade B, 68.4/100, rank #233 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebras-inference.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cerebras-inference.json\n- Prism Inference: grade C, 60.1/100, rank #587 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prism-inference.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prism-inference.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 407 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cerebras Inference (B)\n\nGood for: Cerebras Inference serves language models on Cerebras wafer-scale processors through an OpenAI-compatible API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 65\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 82\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 68\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 65\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 65 against 49\n\nWatch for: Trial access requires a verified payment method and ends after $5 or 30 days\n\n### Prism Inference (C)\n\nGood for: Coding agents that want DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at a low input price, with no retention, through whichever of the three wire formats the harness already speaks.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nWatch for: Two models. The docs mark Gemma 4 31B as request access per organisation, while llms.txt and the keyless catalogue list it as available\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cerebras Inference | Prism Inference | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 65 | Cerebras Inference +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 82 | Cerebras Inference +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 68 | Cerebras Inference +17 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 65 | Cerebras Inference +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Prism Inference +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 49 | Cerebras Inference +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 61 | Prism Inference +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.4 · B** | **60.1 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cerebras Inference | Prism Inference |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Cerebras Systems Inc. | Prism Technologies Inc |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cerebras.ai/v1` | `https://api.prisminference.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The official Python SDK is Apache-2.0; served models retain their own licences. | Proprietary service under Prism's terms of service. The OpenAPI file declares `LicenseRef-Proprietary`. The Hermes provider plugin repository carries no licence file |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-09 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-08-27 | 2026-09-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 170 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cerebras Inference.** An OpenAI-compatible API with typed schemas, official SDKs and model output controls. Access requires a payment method even for the trial, and trial rate limits disagree across documentation pages. Shared-model availability and dedicated-model availability differ.\n\n**Prism Inference.** Three wire formats, a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, per-token prices in a keyless catalogue and zero data retention by default on every tier. The service launched on 24 September 2026 with two models, one of them by request, from a two-person company. No rate-limit numbers, SLA document, free tier or deprecation policy was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cerebras Inference\n\n1. Set CEREBRAS_API_KEY and use https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 with an OpenAI-compatible client.\n2. Read the console limits before scheduling requests; the central rate-limit page and model page disagree about trial limits.\n3. Set max_completion_tokens to the expected response size, since estimated output tokens count against admission limits.\n4. Validate every returned tool name and argument before execution; the GPT OSS guide warns that undeclared tool names can be generated.\n\n### Prism Inference\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.prisminference.com/v1/models` at start-up, with no key, and use only ids it returns. Expect 403 on `gemma-4-31b` without organisation access\n2. Use base URL `https://api.prisminference.com/v1` for OpenAI clients and `https://api.prisminference.com` with no `/v1` for Anthropic clients\n3. Read `error.retryable` before retrying, and wait for `Retry-After` on 429, which covers both key limits and model capacity\n4. Send `reasoning_effort: \"none\"` or `low` when latency matters. Reasoning is on by default and its tokens are billed as output\n5. Keep conversation state yourself and send `store: false` on Responses. `previous_response_id`, stored responses and hosted tools aren't supported\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cerebras Inference or Prism Inference?\n\nCerebras Inference scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Prism Inference's 60.1 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Prism Inference leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Cerebras Inference and Prism Inference need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cerebras Inference and Prism Inference without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cerebras Inference has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 and Prism Inference at https://api.prisminference.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-prism-inference.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-prism-inference.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cerebras-inference\", \"b\": \"prism-inference\"}`. 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