# Hyperbolic vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hyperbolic's 48 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Hyperbolic's 48 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do compute gpu.

- Hyperbolic: D 48, rank #730 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hyperbolic.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #384 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.min.md
- Hyperbolic, 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.
- 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 Reliability, 65 against 52; Security & auth, 72 against 47; Payments & pricing, 20 against 15; Maintenance & community, 81 against 42. Also No incidents deducted, where Hyperbolic loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 52 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 55 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 15 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 42 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hyperbolic Labs, Inc. | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hyperbolic.ai` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hyperbolic's Terms of Service. The unmaintained hyperbolic-mcp repository on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-03-24 | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-06-18 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |