# CoreWeave vs Crusoe Cloud (slim)

> Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) to CoreWeave's 61.5 (C) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- CoreWeave: C 61.5, rank #465 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.min.md
- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md
- CoreWeave, good for Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 58 against 45.
- Crusoe Cloud, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 50; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | CoreWeave | Crusoe Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 45 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | CoreWeave | Crusoe Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | CoreWeave, Inc. | Crusoe |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.coreweave.com` | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | Token | API key |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 38 | 41 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-06-30 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 7 npm/wk |