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Head to head · GPU compute · October 2026 research run

Crusoe Cloud vs Koyeb

Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Koyeb leads on agent ergonomics. Both do gpu compute.

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Crusoe CloudCrusoe · HTTP API B63.4/100#396 of 950 KoyebKoyeb · Model platform D46.5/100#851 of 950

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 60
  • Schema & documentation, 79 against 41
  • Security & auth, 74 against 50
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Maintenance & community, 76 against 23
  • Transparency & trust, 77 against 63

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

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

Koyeb D

Good for Teams that want cheap H100 or H200 containers with scale to zero and an SLA, deployed from Git or an image without a vendor SDK.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 56 against 45

Watch for

Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCrusoe CloudKoyebEdge
Reliability16%206660Crusoe Cloud +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27941Crusoe Cloud +38
Agent ergonomics13%16.24556Koyeb +11
Security & auth14%17.57450Crusoe Cloud +24
Payments & pricing10%12.53020Crusoe Cloud +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87623Crusoe Cloud +53
Transparency & trust7%8.87763Crusoe Cloud +14
Negative events≤1500
Total63.4 · B46.5 · D

Facts side by side

FactCrusoe CloudKoyeb
KindHTTP APIModel platform
VendorCrusoeKoyeb
Hosted endpointhttps://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1https://app.koyeb.com/v1
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthAPI keyToken
PricingPay per useFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary 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 repositoryApache-2.0
Tools exposed41none
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-082026-05-12
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno date given
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be readno date given
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readnot found in the text
Popularity7 npm/wk72 stars
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (2)

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.

Koyeb

H100 at $2.50 and H200 at $3.00 an hour, billed per second. Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026.

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.

Koyeb

  1. Pass dry_run on service create or update to validate the definition before anything deploys
  2. Page service lists with limit and offset and filter by statuses instead of fetching everything
  3. Expect the first request after deep sleep to take 1 to 5 seconds and retry once with a timeout
  4. Set --min-scale 0 on GPU services so idle instances stop billing
  5. Re-check the Mistral transition before building anything long-lived on it

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Crusoe Cloud or Koyeb?

Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Koyeb leads on agent ergonomics.

Can an agent call Crusoe Cloud and Koyeb without installing anything?

Yes. Crusoe Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1 and Koyeb at https://app.koyeb.com/v1.

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