# Eden AI vs Novita AI (slim)

> Eden AI scores 59.9 (C) to Novita AI's 53.9 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Eden AI scores 59.9 (C) on agent readiness against Novita AI's 53.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Novita AI leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do llm inference.

- Eden AI: C 59.9, rank #675 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eden-ai.min.md
- Novita AI: D 53.9, rank #935 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/novita-ai.min.md
- Eden AI, good for Teams that want one key and bill for many LLMs plus OCR, speech, translation and web tools, with EU-only processing. Ahead on Reliability, 33 against 28; Schema & documentation, 81 against 62; Security & auth, 82 against 65.
- Novita AI, good for Agents that want many open-weight models at per-token prices behind one OpenAI-style key, with keys that can be limited by model, IP and expiry. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 66 against 58.

| Category | Eden AI | Novita AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 33 | 28 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 62 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 66 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Eden AI | Novita AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model router | Model API |
| Vendor | Eden AI SAS | Novita AI |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.edenai.run/mcp` | `https://api.novita.ai/openai` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Novita AI Terms of Service. The agent skill and the MCP server are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-22 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-22 | 2026-08-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-22 | 2026-05-13 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 6 stars, 1.4k npm/wk |

Why the edge:
- Schema & documentation, Eden AI +19: Eden AI 81 (Router, scored on the API lines. OpenAPI 3.1 document for v3 (version 3.0.0, 46 paths) at api.edenai.run/v3/docs/openapi.json, plus a management API spec (25). llms.txt on the site and in the docs, llms-full.txt and Markdown pages (10). llms.txt states when to use Eden AI and when not to, and the docs separate chat models from expert models (17). Requests follow the OpenAI shape, and expert-model tools on the MCP server carry JSON Schema inputs (12). Examples throughout, but the spec documents only 200, 201, 202, 302 and 422, while llms.txt names 401 and 451 for region refusals (10). Versioned /v3 path, but no public changelog was found (7). 25+10+17+12+10+7 = 81.); Novita AI 62 (Model reading. The OpenAPI 3.1.0 document at `/.well-known/openapi.json` is a 964-byte discovery file with four paths and no schemas, and the API reference is written by hand (6 of 25). `llms.txt` on both hosts, a Markdown copy of every docs page and an `llms-full.txt` (10). Guides for function calling, structured output, prompt caching, batch and reasoning say what each is for, and the chat reference describes 136 request and response fields (14 of 20). Fields are typed with required flags and defaults. Enums and ranges are stated in prose only (10 of 15). Curl and Python examples on each guide, error tables by product, a common errors guide and a table of which statuses are billed. The FAQ says `json_schema` and `top_logprobs` are unsupported while the reference and a guide document both (10 of 15). A dated changelog with 84 entries since February 2024. The API has no version scheme beyond `/v1` (12 of 15). Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November, as the terms bar automated access to the site and docs.)
- Security & auth, Eden AI +17: Eden AI 82 (Router, read on the model lines. Bearer keys with per-key budgets, expiry and attribution, a key management API, and deny-by-default guardrails that limit models per member, role or key (25). The data retention page says request and response content isn't stored and data isn't used to train models by default (18). Content logging is opt-in, async results are deleted after 7 days, and an organisation can enforce Zero Data Retention and region rules; the EU endpoint refuses non-EU models with 451 (13). Cost and provider per response, and a monitoring dashboard by key (12). The security page says Eden AI is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified and links a trust centre; /.well-known/security.txt returns 404 and no disclosure policy was found (14). 25+18+13+12+14 = 82.); Novita AI 65 (Model reading. Bearer keys with the `sk_` prefix, shown once, up to 10 an account, with an expiry of 24 hours, 30 days, 90 days or none fixed at creation, deletable in the console, and a per-key model access policy and source IP allowlist that can be set by API. OAuth with PKCE and the scopes `api` and `balance:read` is described in `auth.md`, with no token revocation endpoint. No documented way to send a key in a URL was found (26 of 30). The terms, re-read on 4 November and still updated 5 August 2026, say content is not used to train Novita's models or improve the services by default (17 of 20). The terms state zero data retention, with exceptions for law and for what is necessary to run or support the service, and allow automated safety screening. Batch input files are kept for 15 days (11 of 15). Billing can be queried per key, and budget, monitoring and metrics pages are listed in the docs index and were not read (7 of 15). The trust centre at trust.novita.ai is drawn by script and was not read. `/.well-known/security.txt` returns 404, and no disclosure policy or bug bounty was found (4 of 20). The key, retention and trust-centre readings are per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November.)
- Maintenance & community, Novita AI +8: Eden AI 58 (Closed service, read on the model lines. The docs repository changed on 5 and 6 November 2026, including retiring Nova Reel and Veo from video generation, and the terms were updated 22 October (30). No public changelog, so dated API changes in the last 90 days come only from docs commits (12 of 20). Chat support within 48 working hours, no public changelog (8). No SDK of its own, and the MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry (5). Nothing to judge package health by beyond the docs repository (3). 30+12+8+5+3 = 58.); Novita AI 66 (Model reading. Changelog entries per the 27 October reading of each entry page, not re-read on 4 November because Novita's terms bar automated access to the site and its linked channels. The newest entry is dated 22 October 2026 (30). Retirement notices carry a UTC time and a replacement, with notice of 1 day (22 October for `xiaomimimo/mimo-v2.5` at 00:00 UTC on 23 October) to 29 days (1 September for multimodal models on 30 September). No written notice period was found (6 of 12). Nine dated entries in the 90 days from 6 August (1, 8, 18, 20, 23 and 28 September, 15, 19 and 22 October), each read on its own page (8 of 8). A dated changelog, a Discord server and a support address per the 9 October check (12 of 15). `novitalabs/python-sdk` and `novitalabs/javascript-sdk` are archived, unchanged since 8 November 2024 and 4 March 2025, and issue replies were not examined (2 of 10). The docs rely on the OpenAI client, the SDK page still named the two archived packages on 9 October, and the skill repository is unchanged since 24 September 2026 (5 of 15). The JavaScript SDK repository has a publish workflow only and the Python one has none (3 of 10). 30 + 6 + 8 + 12 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 66.)
- Reliability, Eden AI +5: Eden AI 33 (Router, read on the hosted lines. No status page is linked from the site or docs, and status.edenai.co didn't resolve for us on 6 November 2026 (0). No incident history to read (5). The rate-limits page gives 10 requests a second per account, shared across keys, while the plans page gives 7 a second, raisable to 15, so the figure is documented but inconsistent (10). Fallback retries the next model or provider on a 429 or error inside one request, but no client-facing 429 or Retry-After guidance was found (8). No SLA published; 'Dedicated support & SLA' is listed only for the custom Advanced plan, and the pricing page's '99.99%' uptime is a claim without a status page behind it (0). The v3 API is GA (10). 0+5+10+8+0+10 = 33.); Novita AI 28 (Hosted reading. No status page was found. None is linked from the home page, the pricing page, the docs introduction, either `llms.txt` or the docs site map (0), so there is no incident record to read (0). The rate limit page documents five account tiers set by monthly top-ups, from under $50 to $10,000 and over, and limits counted in RPM and TPM per model. The figures per model are drawn by script and were not readable, so this line takes part marks (8 of 15). 429 with `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` or `TOKEN_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`, advice to throttle and use exponential backoff, and a billing page that says 429, 500, 503 and 504 are not charged. No `Retry-After` header was found (10 of 15). No SLA was found. The home page states 99.5% uptime, and the terms say availability is not guaranteed (0). Generally available (10). Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November, as the terms bar automated access to the site and docs.)
- Payments & pricing, Novita AI +5: Eden AI 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Provider prices with no markup plus a 5.5% platform fee, published per model in the keyless catalogue (20). llms.txt says some models are billed $0 for tests, but whether a new account can call them without buying credits isn't stated (10). A person signs up in a browser and buys credits through Stripe (0). 0+20+10+0 = 30.); Novita AI 35 (No machine payment protocol was found in the docs index, the site map, the pricing page or the skill repository (0). Per-token prices for each model on the pricing page without a login, such as `deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash` at $0.30 in and $1.20 out per 1M tokens (20). Two language models are listed as free and the FAQ describes a voucher for new users. Whether a card is needed to use either was not stated in the pages read (15 of 20). A person signs up in a browser, keys are created only in the console, and the OAuth route needs the user to sign in and approve (0). Per the 9 October check, not re-read on 4 November, as the terms bar automated access to the site and docs.)