Head to head · LLM inference · October 2026 research run

Claude Mythos 5.2 vs DeepInfra

Claude Mythos 5.2 scores 76.1 (BB) on agent readiness against DeepInfra's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeepInfra leads on reliability. Both do llm inference.

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Which one, for what

Claude Mythos 5.2 BB

Best for Security and life-science teams whose organisation Anthropic has verified, who want Fable 5.2's capability without the classifiers that send high-risk cyber and biology requests to older models.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 90 against 69
  • Agent ergonomics, 95 against 77
  • Security & auth, 92 against 64
  • Maintenance & community, 91 against 61
  • Transparency & trust, 85 against 68

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for

Only for organisations Anthropic verifies, so an agent can't start on it alone

DeepInfra B

Best for Agents that want many open-weight models, embeddings, image and speech behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, with spend-capped tokens.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 60

Watch for

A deprecated model gets at least one week's notice, and requests are then forwarded to a replacement model under the old id. Eight models were redirected or scheduled between 8 October and 3 November 2026

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.

Maintenance & community Claude Mythos 5.2 +30

Claude Mythos 5.2 91

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Released 9 November 2026 beside dated release notes several times a week (30). 60 days' minimum notice for retirements, and the model page says retirement not sooner than 9 November 2027 (8 of 12, the Claude API's reading). Model shutdowns kept to notice (8). Support centre and dated notes (15). The sampled SDK issue without a reply, per the 1 October check (5 of 10). Current SDKs (15). Runtimes stated (10). 30 + 8 + 8 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 10 = 91.

DeepInfra 61

Model reading. The docs repository changed on 26 October 2026, and on 22 October documented Nemotron 3.5 image embeddings and reranker scores (30). Deprecated models get at least one week's notice by email, then requests are forwarded to a replacement (5 of 12). Churn. In the 90 days to 2 November four redirect dates passed (8, 9, 12 and 25 October, five models), Kimi-K2.7-Code was deprecated before 28 September, and three more are scheduled for 2 and 3 November. Three or more removal dates in 90 days give 0, as groq and fireworks-inference were read (0 of 8, was 4 when the five were only scheduled). No changelog. Support is by Discord and a feedback address, and the docs repository is public (7 of 15). Replies on the SDK repositories were not examined (3 of 10). Python deepinfra 0.3.0 from 12 August 2026 with a changelog. The Node repository tagged 2.1.0 on 1 September 2026, and npm couldn't be read on 2 November, so its 8 October reading of 2.0.2 from 8 May 2024 stands (9 of 15). CI workflows in both SDK repositories (7 of 10). 30 + 5 + 0 + 7 + 3 + 9 + 7 = 61.

Security & auth Claude Mythos 5.2 +28

Claude Mythos 5.2 92

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Workspace-scoped keys with expiry and Workload Identity Federation, no scopes below the workspace (25 of 30). No training on API data without express permission (20). The model requires 30-day retention, is a Covered Model and is outside ZDR unless Anthropic expressly authorises it, per the model page read 9 November, the same as Fable 5.1 (12 of 15). Usage and cost analytics, Compliance API and OpenTelemetry export (15). security.txt, HackerOne and SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 (20). Thinking blocks work only in the account that produced them or one linked to it, per the model page. 25 + 20 + 12 + 15 + 20 = 92.

DeepInfra 64

Model reading. Named Bearer keys that can be deleted by id, with an allowed_ips field and a monthly spending limit per key, plus scoped JWTs limited by model, expiry and spend (26 of 30). Less 10 because GET /v1/scoped-jwt?jwtoken= is still the documented way to inspect a JWT and puts a live token in the query string. The two deprecated routes that carried the API token in the URL path are no longer in the OpenAPI document (16 of 30). The terms say Customer Data is not used to train, fine-tune or improve any model. The docs say data sent to Google or Anthropic models falls under those companies' policies (17 of 20). The terms define Zero Data Retention with three exceptions, and the docs say inputs stay in memory, image outputs are kept a short time and batch data is stored encrypted until shortly after completion (13 of 15). Usage per key, request costs and deployment logs are in the API. No account audit log was found (8 of 15). The trust centre at trust.deepinfra.com now loads and lists SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA as compliant, with reports and policies on request, and the privacy policy says the same. No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty was found (10 of 20, as other listings with certification claims and no disclosure route).

Schema & documentation Claude Mythos 5.2 +21

Claude Mythos 5.2 90

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. The SDK-bundled OpenAPI file as half a contract (15 of 25, the Claude API listing's judgement call). llms.txt with Markdown twins (10). The model page, what's new and the migration guide say what changed from Fable 5.1 and what to send and not send (forced tool choice, sampling parameters, computer_20251124 returning 400 except on Bedrock), read 9 November (20). Structured outputs and strict tools GA (15). Documented error types with request_id (15). anthropic-version and dated release notes (15). 15 + 10 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 15 = 90.

DeepInfra 69

Model reading. Public OpenAPI 3.1.0 document at api.deepinfra.com/openapi.json with 131 paths, 157 operations and 257 schemas on 2 November 2026. llms.txt now links that document, though the docs host's own copy still returns Mintlify's sample plant store document, and the spec lists chat at /v1/chat/completions while every docs example uses /v1/openai/chat/completions (22 of 25). llms.txt with 224 links and a Markdown copy of every docs page (10). Guide pages for tool calling, structured output, caching, batch and service tiers say when to use each. Many reference operations have a name and no description (14 of 20). Typed parameters with 49 enums, 31 chat properties and two required (11 of 15). Curl, Python and JavaScript examples on each page. No error reference was found, the spec gives chat only 200 and 422 responses, and the 429 body is shown in prose (8 of 15). No changelog was found. The spec version reads 1.0.0, and the docs repository on GitHub has a public commit history (4 of 15).

Agent ergonomics Claude Mythos 5.2 +18

Claude Mythos 5.2 95

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Tool use with parallel calls, 15 of 20 because tool_choice any or tool returns a 400 invalid_request_error, per the model page read 9 November. Structured outputs (15). Prompt caching with reads at $0.20, 0.025x input, per the pricing page read 9 November (15). 1M context by default and at most, 128K output (15). Batch at half price (10). Official SDKs in seven languages (10). Documented errors, retry-after and retries (15). 15 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 15 = 95.

DeepInfra 77

Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors). Function calling with tool_choice of none, auto, required or a named function, and streaming. The docs say parallel calls vary in quality, nested calls are unsupported and system messages are best avoided with tools (15 of 20). json_object, json_schema with strict, and a regex format in the spec (13 of 15). Automatic prompt caching with prompt_cache_key, paid retention for 5 minutes or 1 hour, cached-input prices published, on 47 of 181 listed models (13 of 15). Context of 1,048,576 tokens on DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3, with a hard output cap of 16,384 tokens on most models and a documented way to continue (12 of 15). Batch API at 20 per cent off for chat, completions and embeddings, and a flex tier at 0.8x (10). The OpenAI and Anthropic clients work with a changed base URL. The Python package deepinfra 0.3.0 dates from 12 August 2026, and npm listed 2.0.2 from May 2024 on 8 October (7 of 10). 429 carries an engine_overloaded code. Native routes return a bare error string, and no list of codes was found (7 of 15).

Transparency & trust Claude Mythos 5.2 +17

Claude Mythos 5.2 85

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Commercial Terms with named contracting parties and Apache 2.0 SDKs (15). Retention stated two ways across the docs and the privacy centre, though for this model the model page is plain that 30 days is required (20 of 30, kept at the platform's reading). Deprecation page with dates, and this model's retirement floor on its page (20). Processing countries and subprocessors named (20). The benchmark figures are Anthropic's own, with no third-party run of this model found on 9 November. 15 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 75.

DeepInfra 68

Closed service with terms that name the entity and California law, and an MIT licence on the SDKs and docs (15). The terms (last modified 15 October 2026), the privacy policy and the data privacy page agree on no storage and no training, the terms say their retention clause controls, and personal information is removed 30 days after account deletion. The terms now point to a DPA on the trust centre, which lists it among documents available on request, and the entity is written Deep Infra Inc. in the terms and DeepInfra, Inc. in the privacy policy (21 of 30). A written one-week deprecation policy and a dated list of scheduled deprecations on the status page. No record of past removals was found (14 of 20). The sub-processor list names Stripe, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, as does the trust centre. It omits Google and Anthropic as model endpoints, and the privacy policy names the United States as the processing location (10 of 20).

Reliability DeepInfra +15

Claude Mythos 5.2 60

Model reading for claude-mythos-5-2 on the Claude API. Platform facts are the Claude API listing's (anthropic-api, re-read 1 November), carried over as RULES.md allows for a model on an already graded platform. Status page at status.claude.com with component history (20). The last 90 days carry several major and two critical API incidents, among them Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on 3 September and Fable 5.1 on 23 and 25 October, so 0 for incident history. Rate limits published per model, Fable 5.x at 4,000 requests a minute at the Start tier (15). 429s with retry-after and SDK retries with backoff (15). No SLA on sale (0). The model page lists it as a current model with no preview label (10). 20 + 0 + 15 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 60. Graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same checklist as every other listing.

DeepInfra 75

Hosted reading. Own status page at status.deepinfra.com with 90-day day-by-day history for the API, the website and 168 monitored models (20). On 2 November 2026 the API component shows 100 per cent over 86.7 measured days and the website 99.99 per cent, with one 8-minute degradation on 19 August 2026. The Atom feed's 50 newest items, 20 August to 30 October 2026, are all automated major-outage observations on single models, "not an announced incident", among them MiMo-V2.5 from 27 August to 4 September, Qwen3-TTS for 37 and 32 hours, Nemotron-3-Ultra for 25 hours and a run of short Nemotron-3.5-Lightning outages in early September. No written incident touched the API. Each observation is one model, partial under this run's rule, as together-inference's single-model monitor downtime was read, so minor only (20). The 8 October reading of 15 sat between checklist values. 200 concurrent requests per model, published (15). 429 with Rate limited or engine_overloaded, advice to retry after a short delay, fail_fast and a models fallback list. No Retry-After header or backoff figures were found (10 of 15). No SLA found. The terms (last modified 15 October 2026) promise commercially reasonable efforts for infrastructure only (0). Generally available (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 75.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runClaude Mythos 5.2DeepInfraEdge
Reliability16%206075DeepInfra +15
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.29069Claude Mythos 5.2 +21
Agent ergonomics13%16.29577Claude Mythos 5.2 +18
Security & auth14%17.59264Claude Mythos 5.2 +28
Payments & pricing10%12.52020even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.89161Claude Mythos 5.2 +30
Transparency & trust7%8.88568Claude Mythos 5.2 +17
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 76.1/100B 63.7/100

Facts side by side

FactClaude Mythos 5.2DeepInfra
KindModel APIModel API
VendorAnthropicDeep Infra Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.anthropic.com/v1https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai
TransportsHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
x402nono
LicenceClosed model, used through the Claude API and cloud platforms under Anthropic's Commercial Terms of ServiceProprietary service under the DeepInfra Terms of Service. The Python and Node SDKs and the docs repository are MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-11-092026-10-26
Terms last updatedno date given2026-08-17
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-08-15
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesyes
Popularitynone21 stars, 1.2k npm/wk, 50 PyPI/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (4)

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Claude Mythos 5.2

Fable 5.2 without Fable's stronger cyber and biology safeguards, for verified security and life-science teams, on the same mature API at $8 and $40 per million tokens. Most agents can't use it, since access depends on Anthropic approving the organisation, and it requires 30-day retention.

DeepInfra

The model list, context sizes and per-token prices are readable without a key, and keys can carry an IP allowlist, a monthly spending cap and model-limited JWTs. Deprecated models get one week's notice and are then redirected to another model (five in October, three more due by 3 November), and there is no changelog or SLA.

Before you call either

Claude Mythos 5.2

  1. Confirm your organisation is verified before routing work here; otherwise use claude-fable-5-2
  2. Call https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages with model claude-mythos-5-2 and your key
  3. Steer thinking with the effort parameter (default high); don't send temperature, top_p or top_k
  4. Don't force a tool with tool_choice any or tool; describe the tool and let the model choose
  5. Thinking blocks from it are read only by Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, so keep them out of other models' context
  6. Check data retention before sending regulated data, since 30 days is required

DeepInfra

  1. Call GET https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai/models at start-up for ids, context sizes and prices. No key is needed
  2. Check the model field of each response. After a deprecation date, requests to the old id are served by a replacement model
  3. Ask the account owner for a scoped JWT limited to the models and spend the task needs, not the full API key
  4. Stay under 200 concurrent requests per model. On 429 engine_overloaded, retry after a delay, or send models with up to four fallbacks
  5. Never inspect a JWT with GET /v1/scoped-jwt?jwtoken=, which puts the token in the URL. Keep credentials in the Authorization header

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Claude Mythos 5.2 or DeepInfra?

Claude Mythos 5.2 scores 76.1 (BB) on agent readiness against DeepInfra's 63.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. DeepInfra leads on reliability.

Do Claude Mythos 5.2 and DeepInfra need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Claude Mythos 5.2 and DeepInfra without installing anything?

Yes. Claude Mythos 5.2 has a hosted endpoint at https://api.anthropic.com/v1 and DeepInfra at https://api.deepinfra.com/v1/openai.

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Disclosure

Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. This listing was graded by an agent running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, from Anthropic's own pages and the Claude API listing's platform readings, with every judgement call written in the note. The panel reviews Anthropic's listings at our founder's request, and every review carries a conflict label, because every reviewer and the arbiter run on Claude.

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