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      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "CoreWeave is a GPU cloud that rents NVIDIA GPU nodes through a managed Kubernetes service (CKS), with REST and gRPC platform APIs, a Terraform provider and a hosted MCP server for observability.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coreweave.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/coreweave/terraform-provider-coreweave",
      "license": "Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.coreweave.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "pat",
      "authNotes": "Access starts with sales approval. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails an activation link, then a user with the Access Token User role creates an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with a name and an expiry. The token is user-scoped, shown once, revocable in the console and sent as `Authorization: Bearer` to api.coreweave.com, to a CKS cluster's Kubernetes API (through a kubeconfig) and to the Mission Control MCP server. What it can do follows the user's IAM roles, which include a Viewer and an Admin role per service. CKS workloads can also use OIDC workload identity federation. Serverless Inference takes a separate Forge API key.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Per instance-hour, published without a login. On demand in North America, HGX H100 (8 GPUs) $49.24, HGX H200 $50.44, HGX B200 $68.80, A100 $21.60, L40S $18.00, L40 $10.00, GB200 NVL72 (4 GPUs) $42.00 and GH200 (1 GPU) $6.50, with spot rates on most. GB300 NVL72 and HGX B300 on demand are quoted by sales. Reserved capacity is discounted by up to 60 per cent through sales. AI Object Storage is $0.06 a GB-month hot, $0.03 warm and $0.015 cold, distributed file storage $0.07, and egress, VPC and the CKS control plane are free. No free tier or self-serve trial was found, and the terms treat any trial as part of the sales-run ARENA programme (https://www.coreweave.com/pricing, https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API references or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
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      "openapi": "https://docs.coreweave.com/products/cks/reference/cks-api",
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        "compute.gpu",
        "compute.containers",
        "compute.endpoints",
        "compute.batch"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "usage-priced",
        "enterprise",
        "sales-led",
        "mcp",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "terraform",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 61.5,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 58,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 77
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.",
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          "On-demand and spot prices per instance-hour are public, for example HGX H100 at $49.24 on demand and $19.71 spot for 8 GPUs",
          "Docs are served as Markdown with an llms.txt index, and OpenAPI 3.0 specs for CKS, VPC, storage and inference are embedded in the reference pages",
          "IAM has Viewer and Admin roles per service, API tokens carry an expiry, and Kubernetes audit logs can be forwarded with Telemetry Relay",
          "Terms carry a service level objective of 99.9 per cent across multiple regions and 99 per cent in one, with financial credits",
          "Dated changelog with 18 entries between 10 July and 2 October 2026, and a Terraform provider tagged v0.24.0 on 11 September 2026"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created",
          "No request rate limits, 429 guidance or idempotency keys found for api.coreweave.com in the reviewed documentation",
          "The CKS API is versioned v1beta1 and the Node Pool resource and Dedicated Inference API v1alpha1",
          "Three incidents between 26 September and 6 October 2026, including a US-CENTRAL-09A network outage of over two hours on 5 October",
          "The MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` ignores its `dry_run` parameter and applies the manifest, per the tool reference"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com",
          "Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards",
          "Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour",
          "Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied",
          "Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 61.5
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        ],
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          "ergonomics": 58,
          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 71
        },
        "provenanceScore": 83
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.coreweave.com/v1beta1/cks/clusters\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $COREWEAVE_API_TOKEN\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http mission-control https://mc.coreweave.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer [YOUR-COREWEAVE-API-TOKEN]\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "mission-control": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer [YOUR-COREWEAVE-API-TOKEN]"
              },
              "url": "https://mc.coreweave.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/coreweave"
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      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "HGX H100 80 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 6.16,
          "note": "Published single-GPU rate. Sold as an 8-GPU node at $49.24 an hour on demand, $19.71 spot"
        },
        {
          "item": "HGX H200 141 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 6.31,
          "note": "8-GPU node at $50.44 an hour on demand, $20.93 spot"
        },
        {
          "item": "HGX B200 180 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 8.6,
          "note": "8-GPU node at $68.80 an hour on demand, $34.11 spot"
        },
        {
          "item": "GB200 NVL72 186 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 10.5,
          "note": "4-GPU instance at $42.00 an hour on demand"
        },
        {
          "item": "A100 80 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.7,
          "note": "8-GPU node at $21.60 an hour on demand, $9.65 spot"
        },
        {
          "item": "L40S 48 GB",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.25,
          "note": "8-GPU node at $18.00 an hour on demand, $7.88 spot"
        },
        {
          "item": "AI Object Storage, hot tier",
          "unit": "gb-month",
          "usd": 0.06,
          "note": "Warm $0.03, cold $0.015. No egress fee"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "CoreWeave, Inc.",
        "domain": "coreweave.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-04-01",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.coreweave.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.coreweave.com/release-notes/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms of Service on docs.coreweave.com govern the CoreWeave Cloud Platform and were last modified on 30 June 2022. They are under New York law. The separate Terms of Use page covers the websites only.",
          "The privacy policy names CoreWeave, Inc. and its affiliates and was last updated on 24 February 2026.",
          "www.coreweave.com/.well-known/security.txt and coreweave.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. A vulnerability disclosure policy is published in the docs.",
          "The APIs run on api.coreweave.com and mc.coreweave.com. Serverless Inference runs on api.inference.wandb.ai.",
          "coreweave.com was registered on 2019-04-01 per Verisign RDAP."
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        "score": 83
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.json",
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        "slug": "coreweave",
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          "target": "https://api.coreweave.com",
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          "samples30d": 337,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 250,
              "ok": 250
            },
            {
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              "ok": 17
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.coreweave.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:23.450417547Z"
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            "registry": "github",
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          "url": "https://coreweave.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
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        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.coreweave.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:46.062521661Z"
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        "pages": [
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            "url": "https://docs.coreweave.com/release-notes/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:37:07.782656355Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.coreweave.com/pricing",
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            "status": 200,
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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            "url": "https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service/privacy-policy",
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.coreweave.com/policies/terms-of-service",
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    "answer": "Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on agent ergonomics.",
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      "name": "Crusoe Cloud",
      "vendor": "Crusoe",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.crusoe.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Crusoe Cloud rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU virtual machines with managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and runs hosted model inference, dedicated deployments and LoRA fine-tuning. Resources are managed through a REST API, a CLI, a Terraform provider and a Go client.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/crusoecloud/client-go",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository",
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        "http",
        "stdio"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@crusoeai/cloud-mcp"
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up in the console with Google, GitHub or an email code, then creates an access key ID and secret key under Security, with an optional alias and expiry. Each request carries `X-Crusoe-Timestamp` and `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`, where the signature is an HMAC-SHA256 of the path, sorted query string, verb and timestamp. Keys inherit the roles of the user who made them (`org-admin`, `org-editor`, `org-reader`, `project-editor`, `project-reader`). Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys sent as a Bearer token. Service accounts appear in the API description and the Terraform provider 1.6.0, with no docs page found.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go, billed per second for on-demand VMs. Per GPU-hour, H200 $4.29, H100 $3.90, MI300X $3.45, A100 $2.00 to $2.30 and L40S $1.50. GB200, B200, MI355X and all spot prices are contact sales. Compute needs a non-prepaid credit card. $5 of introductory credits cover Serverless Inference and Fine-Tuning without a card. Ingress and egress are free (https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.04 / vCPU-hr",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the API description or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
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        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.crusoecloud.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://api.crusoecloud.com/v1/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
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        "compute.containers",
        "compute.batch",
        "compute.endpoints"
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        "usage-priced",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "cli",
        "terraform",
        "go",
        "status-page",
        "soc2",
        "enterprise"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-08",
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 63.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 396,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 45,
          "maintenance": 76,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 77
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          "tasks"
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The v1 REST API has a published OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, HMAC-signed keys, reader roles and a 90-day audit log, with on-demand GPU prices public. No idempotency keys or control-plane rate limits were found, spot and B200 prices go through sales, and a storage outage in eu-norway1 lasted about four hours on 29 September 2026.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.",
        "strengths": [
          "Requests are signed with HMAC-SHA256 over the path, query, verb and timestamp, so the secret key never travels with a request.",
          "The API description is published for `/v1` and `/v1alpha5`, with 1,231 examples, and the docs serve `llms.txt` and a Markdown twin of each page.",
          "On-demand prices are public and billed per second. H100 is $3.90 and H200 $4.29 a GPU-hour, with no charge for ingress or egress.",
          "Organisation and project roles include read-only `org-reader` and `project-reader`, and the audit log keeps 90 days of control-plane actions readable through the API.",
          "The Terms of Service promise 90 days' notice before a service is discontinued or a customer-facing API changes in a backwards-incompatible way."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.",
          "No request rate limits were found for the infrastructure API. Numbers are published only for Serverless Inference.",
          "Spot prices and on-demand prices for GB200, B200 and MI355X are listed as contact sales, and provisioning compute needs a non-prepaid credit card.",
          "The status page shows a critical storage incident in eu-norway1 on 29 September 2026 (about 3 hours 54 minutes) and a 7.5-hour VM and cluster creation fault in us-east2 on 2 September.",
          "The Service Specific Terms let customers publish benchmark results only with Crusoe's written consent, and the Intelligence Foundry terms bar competitive analysis or benchmarking. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.",
          "Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.",
          "Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.",
          "Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.",
          "Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 63.4
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          "maintenance": 76,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "brew install crusoecloud/cli/crusoe",
        "http": "curl https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1/capacities -H \"X-Crusoe-Timestamp: \u003cRFC3339 timestamp\u003e\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cversion:access_key_id:base64_encoded_signature\u003e\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add crusoe-cloud -- npx -y @crusoeai/cloud-mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "crusoe-cloud": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@crusoeai/cloud-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "npx"
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          }
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      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/crusoe-cloud"
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      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H100 80 GB HGX, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.9,
          "note": "Billed per second while running. Spot is contact sales"
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H200 141 GB HGX, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 4.29
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA A100 80 GB SXM, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.3
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA A100 80 GB PCIe, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA L40S 48 GB, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.5
        },
        {
          "item": "AMD MI300X 192 GB, on demand",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.45
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H100, Self-Serve Deployment",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 5.5,
          "note": "Dedicated inference endpoint, billed until deleted. H200 $6.00, B200 $9.65, MI355X $7.40"
        },
        {
          "item": "General-purpose CPU instance",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.04,
          "note": "Storage-optimised $0.09"
        },
        {
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  "markdown": "Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on agent ergonomics. Both do gpu compute.\n\n- CoreWeave: grade C, 61.5/100, rank #465 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coreweave.json\n- Crusoe Cloud: grade B, 63.4/100, rank #396 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json\n- Best GPU and serverless compute for AI workloads: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/gpu-compute/index.md\n- All 167 gpu compute comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpu-compute/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### CoreWeave (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 58 against 45\n\nWatch for: No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created\n\n### Crusoe Cloud (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 50\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CoreWeave | Crusoe Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 66 | Crusoe Cloud +16 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 79 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 45 | CoreWeave +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 74 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Crusoe Cloud +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 76 | CoreWeave +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 77 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.5 · C** | **63.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CoreWeave | Crusoe Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | CoreWeave, Inc. | Crusoe |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.coreweave.com` | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | Token | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository |\n| Tools exposed | 38 | 41 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-06-30 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 7 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CoreWeave.** Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n**Crusoe Cloud.** The v1 REST API has a published OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, HMAC-signed keys, reader roles and a 90-day audit log, with on-demand GPU prices public. No idempotency keys or control-plane rate limits were found, spot and B200 prices go through sales, and a storage outage in eu-norway1 lasted about four hours on 29 September 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CoreWeave\n\n1. Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com\n2. Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards\n3. Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour\n4. Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied\n5. Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there\n\n### Crusoe Cloud\n\n1. Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.\n2. Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.\n3. Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.\n4. Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.\n5. Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CoreWeave or Crusoe Cloud?\n\nCrusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against CoreWeave's 61.5 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. CoreWeave leads on agent ergonomics.\n\n### Do CoreWeave and Crusoe Cloud need an API key?\n\nCoreWeave needs an access token. Crusoe Cloud needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call CoreWeave and Crusoe Cloud without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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