# Cerebrium vs Nebius AI Cloud (slim)

> Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Cerebrium leads on payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Cerebrium leads on payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #593 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Nebius AI Cloud: B 67.2, rank #240 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.min.md
- Cerebrium, good for Teams serving their own models as real-time endpoints (voice, LLM, image) who want per-second billing, multi-region placement and a scriptable management API. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 30 against 20.
- Nebius AI Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 48; Schema & documentation, 78 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 49; Security & auth, 81 against 60; Maintenance & community, 82 against 75; Transparency & trust, 77 against 63. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Cerebrium | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 81 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cerebrium | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cerebrium Inc. | Nebius |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` | `https://api.nebius.cloud` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for compute gpu | not published | $1.35 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-23 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 920 PyPI/wk | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk |