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      "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).",
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          "Terms carry a service level objective of 99.9 per cent across multiple regions and 99 per cent in one, with financial credits",
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          "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"
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          "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"
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          "item": "HGX B200 180 GB",
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        "changelog": "https://docs.coreweave.com/release-notes/changelog",
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          "The privacy policy names CoreWeave, Inc. and its affiliates and was last updated on 24 February 2026.",
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          "The APIs run on api.coreweave.com and mc.coreweave.com. Serverless Inference runs on api.inference.wandb.ai.",
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      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Vast.ai is a marketplace for renting GPUs by the second from independent hosts and data centres, as Docker instances, virtual machines or autoscaling serverless endpoints. Agents use the `vastai` CLI, a Python SDK or a REST API.",
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          "No free tier. Credit is prepaid with a $5 minimum deposit after a browser signup and email verification",
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          "The terms of 1 September 2026 prohibit scripts and automated access to the services without a separate written agreement, which conflicts with the public API"
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          "Pass `--raw` on every CLI command for JSON output, and `-y` on `vastai destroy instance`, which otherwise waits for a confirmation prompt",
          "Register an SSH key with `vastai create ssh-key` before creating an instance, or the host is unreachable",
          "Destroy instances when finished. A stopped instance still bills storage, and a zero balance without a saved card leads to deletion",
          "Back off on HTTP 429 yourself when calling REST directly. The CLI retries 429 three times from 0.15 seconds",
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          "The privacy policy, version date 18 June 2025, names Vast.ai Inc. and a Privacy Officer at contact@vast.ai. It is written for users of the website and contains an unfilled `[INSERT HYPERLINK]` placeholder.",
          "A Data Processing Agreement at vast.ai/data-processing-agreement forms part of the terms, with standard contractual clauses and five named sub-processors (Stripe, Google, Meta, Twitter, Microsoft).",
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CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created\n\n### Vast.ai (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 50\n\nWatch for: No SLA. The terms say availability is not guaranteed and the service can change without notice\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CoreWeave | Vast.ai | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 65 | Vast.ai +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 78 | CoreWeave +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 57 | CoreWeave +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 72 | CoreWeave +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 81 | Vast.ai +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 62 | CoreWeave +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.5 · C** | **62.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CoreWeave | Vast.ai |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | CoreWeave, Inc. | Vast.ai Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.coreweave.com` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\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. 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The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 38 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-06-30 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-02-24 | 2025-06-18 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/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**Vast.ai.** API keys can be limited by permission category and by resource ID, the REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 file, and the CLI ships weekly with a skill file for coding agents. Machines belong to independent hosts, prices move with the market, rate-limit thresholds are unpublished, and there is no SLA or free tier.\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### Vast.ai\n\n1. Create a scoped key with `vastai create api-key --permissions` for the agent. A default key has full account access, billing and key management included\n2. Pass `--raw` on every CLI command for JSON output, and `-y` on `vastai destroy instance`, which otherwise waits for a confirmation prompt\n3. Register an SSH key with `vastai create ssh-key` before creating an instance, or the host is unreachable\n4. Destroy instances when finished. A stopped instance still bills storage, and a zero balance without a saved card leads to deletion\n5. Back off on HTTP 429 yourself when calling REST directly. The CLI retries 429 three times from 0.15 seconds\n6. 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