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          "The MCP server at endpoints.huggingface.co/mcp uses OAuth with `read-endpoints` and `write-endpoints` scopes, PKCE and dynamic client registration",
          "`GET /v2/provider` needs no token and returns each instance type by cloud and region with status and price per hour",
          "The MCP `delete_endpoint` tool returns a preview and deletes only on a second call with `confirm: true`",
          "The Inference Endpoints API component on status.huggingface.co shows 100 per cent uptime over the 90 days to 8 October 2026"
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          "No free tier. The docs require a payment method and credits, and replicas are billed while initialising as well as running",
          "No rate limits, SLA or idempotency keys were found for the management API, and its OpenAPI document lists only 200 responses on 43 of 46 operations",
          "The docs price table and the live provider list disagree. Inferentia2 x1 is $0.75 in the docs and $1.95 in the API, and AWS H200 is listed in the docs and marked deprecated in the API",
          "A start from zero replicas takes minutes by the docs' own account, and the proxy answers 503 until a replica is ready",
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          "Set `scaleToZeroTimeout` yourself. The docs give a default of 1 hour and the OpenAPI document says 15 minutes",
          "Pause or delete an endpoint when the job is done. Billing covers every minute a replica is initialising or running",
          "Give the agent a fine-grained token or the `read-endpoints` scope unless it must deploy. Endpoints are private by default and take the same Hugging Face token as a bearer"
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          "item": "NVIDIA H100 80 GB x1 (GCP)",
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          "The Terms of Service (effective 15 September 2022) name Hugging Face, Inc., a Delaware corporation, list Inference Endpoints among the services they cover and are governed by New York law. They link Supplemental Terms (effective 28 April 2025) as a PDF, of which our reader extracted only the first page.",
          "The privacy policy (effective 28 March 2023) names Hugging Face, Inc. and its EU establishment Hugging Face, SAS, 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, and lists 11 subprocessors with countries. The Inference Endpoints security page points to it.",
          "The management API answers at api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud and deployed endpoints at subdomains of endpoints.huggingface.cloud, a second domain of the vendor's. The catalogue API and the MCP server are on endpoints.huggingface.co.",
          "huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt gives security@huggingface.co and expires on 1 July 2030. endpoints.huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.",
          "status.huggingface.co is a Better Stack page with separate components for the Inference Endpoints UI and API.",
          "The changelog at huggingface.co/changelog covers the whole Hub. Inference Endpoints has no changelog of its own. Dated changes are in the docs repository's commit history.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vast-ai.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B)\n\nGood for: Teams whose models already live on the Hugging Face Hub and who want a dedicated endpoint on a named cloud and region with standard open-source engines.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 72\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 62\n\nWatch for: No free tier. The docs require a payment method and credits, and replicas are billed while initialising as well as running\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- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 73\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 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | Vast.ai | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 65 | Vast.ai +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 78 | Vast.ai +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 57 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 83 | 72 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +11 |\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) | 68 | 62 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.5 · B** | **62.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | Vast.ai |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hugging Face, Inc. | Vast.ai Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Hugging Face Terms of Service. The `huggingface_hub` Python client and CLI are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 19 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | 2022-09-15 | 2026-09-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-03-28 | 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 | 60M PyPI/wk | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Hugging Face Inference Endpoints.** OAuth scopes separate reading endpoints from writing them, both OpenAPI documents are public, and the unauthenticated `/v2/provider` route lists every instance with its hourly price. An account needs a payment method and credits before the first deployment, no rate limits or SLA were found for the management API, and the docs price table disagrees with the live list in places.\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### Hugging Face Inference Endpoints\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud/v2/provider` first and pick an instance whose `status` is `available`. The docs table lists types the API marks deprecated or not available\n2. Send `X-Scale-Up-Timeout: 600` on requests to an endpoint that scales to zero, or handle 503 while the first replica starts\n3. Set `scaleToZeroTimeout` yourself. The docs give a default of 1 hour and the OpenAPI document says 15 minutes\n4. Pause or delete an endpoint when the job is done. Billing covers every minute a replica is initialising or running\n5. Give the agent a fine-grained token or the `read-endpoints` scope unless it must deploy. Endpoints are private by default and take the same Hugging Face token as a bearer\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. Filter searches with `verified=true` or the Secure Cloud option for sensitive data, and set a `dph_total` price cap\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints or Vast.ai?\n\nHugging Face Inference Endpoints scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Vast.ai's 62.6 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Vast.ai leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Do Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and Vast.ai need an API key?\n\nHugging Face Inference Endpoints takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Vast.ai needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and Vast.ai without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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