# Crusoe Cloud vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Crusoe Cloud and Vast.ai score within a point of each other for gpu compute, 63.4 and 62.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Crusoe Cloud and Vast.ai score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 63.4 (B) and 62.6 (B). Vast.ai leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do gpu compute.

- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #425 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Transparency & trust, 77 against 62. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Vast.ai, good 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 57 against 45; Maintenance & community, 81 against 76.

| Category | Crusoe Cloud | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 45 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crusoe Cloud | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crusoe | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 41 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-06-18 |
| 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 | yes |
| 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 | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |