# Cerebrium vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 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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Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Cerebrium's 55.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Cerebrium leads on payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #512 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #331 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.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.
- Vast.ai, good for Cost-sensitive training, batch work and self-managed inference where the agent can search listings, set a price cap and tolerate host variance or interruption. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 48; Schema & documentation, 78 against 70; Agent ergonomics, 57 against 49; Security & auth, 72 against 60; Maintenance & community, 81 against 75.

| Category | Cerebrium | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 48 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cerebrium | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cerebrium Inc. | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-06-18 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 920 PyPI/wk | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |