# Crusoe Cloud vs Hyperbolic

> Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) to Hyperbolic's 48 (D) 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 Hyperbolic's 48 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hyperbolic leads on agent ergonomics. Both do gpu compute.

- 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
- Hyperbolic: grade D, 48/100, rank #822 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbolic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hyperbolic.json
- Best GPU and serverless compute for AI workloads: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/gpu-compute/index.md
- All 167 gpu compute comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpu-compute/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Crusoe Cloud (B)

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 52
- Security & auth, 74 against 47
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 15
- Maintenance & community, 76 against 42
- Transparency & trust, 77 against 61

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- No incidents deducted, where Hyperbolic loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.

### Hyperbolic (D)

Good for: Agents that rent whole H100, H200 or B200 machines or multi-node clusters for training and batch work and that have a funded account.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 55 against 45

Watch for: API keys carry no scopes or expiry in the reviewed documentation, and the same key can call `DELETE /v2/users/me`


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Crusoe Cloud | Hyperbolic | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 52 | Crusoe Cloud +14 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 77 | Crusoe Cloud +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 45 | 55 | Hyperbolic +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 47 | Crusoe Cloud +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 15 | Crusoe Cloud +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 42 | Crusoe Cloud +34 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 61 | Crusoe Cloud +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **63.4 · B** | **48 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Crusoe Cloud | Hyperbolic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Crusoe | Hyperbolic Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | `https://api.hyperbolic.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Hyperbolic's Terms of Service. The unmaintained hyperbolic-mcp repository on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 41 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-03-24 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 7 npm/wk | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Hyperbolic.** The API serves its own OpenAPI 3.1 document without a key, lists GPU prices on an open endpoint and dates the removal of legacy paths at 1 March 2027. API keys carry no scopes and can delete the account, rental creation has no idempotency key, and renting needs a browser signup and a $5 deposit.

## Before you call either

### Crusoe Cloud

1. 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:<access_key_id>:<signature>`.
2. Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

### Hyperbolic

1. Read `GET /v2/on-demand/rental-options` first. It needs no key and lists what can be rented now, with `costPerHourCents` per GPU configuration.
2. Send `rentalType` and `gpuCount` to `POST /v2/on-demand/rentals`. Region defaults to `us-central-1` and GPU type to `h100`, so set both from the options list.
3. List active rentals before retrying a failed create call. There is no idempotency key and every ready rental bills hourly.
4. Save an SSH public key with `POST /v2/ssh-keys` before renting. Without `sshPublicKeyIds` the newest saved key is attached.
5. Do not create reserved rentals unless asked. They are paid in full up front and cannot be terminated early.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Crusoe Cloud or Hyperbolic?

Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Hyperbolic's 48 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hyperbolic leads on agent ergonomics.

### Do Crusoe Cloud and Hyperbolic need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Crusoe Cloud and Hyperbolic without installing anything?

Yes. Crusoe Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1 and Hyperbolic at https://api.hyperbolic.ai.


## For agents

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