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Head to head · Compute gpu · October 2026 research run

Koyeb vs Nebius AI Cloud

Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu.

KoyebKoyeb · Model platform D46.5/100#754 of 841 Nebius AI CloudNebius · HTTP API B67.2/100#240 of 841

Which one, for what

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.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

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

Nebius AI Cloud B

Good for Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 78 against 41
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 56
  • Security & auth, 81 against 50
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 23
  • Transparency & trust, 77 against 63

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

Status page lists 14 incidents marked major between 14 July and 8 October 2026, including about 21 hours of partial degradation in us-central1 on 19 August

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runKoyebNebius AI CloudEdge
Reliability16%206057Koyeb +3
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24178Nebius AI Cloud +37
Agent ergonomics13%16.25677Nebius AI Cloud +21
Security & auth14%17.55081Nebius AI Cloud +31
Payments & pricing10%12.52020even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82382Nebius AI Cloud +59
Transparency & trust7%8.86377Nebius AI Cloud +14
Negative events≤1500
Total46.5 · D67.2 · B

Facts side by side

FactKoyebNebius AI Cloud
KindModel platformHTTP API
VendorKoyebNebius
Hosted endpointhttps://app.koyeb.com/v1https://api.nebius.cloud
TransportsHTTPHTTP, stdio
AuthTokenOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
Price for compute gpunot published$1.35 per GPU-hour
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-05-122026-10-07
Terms last updatedno date given2026-09-28
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-09-23
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity72 stars4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews3.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

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.

Nebius AI Cloud

One API definition generates the REST and gRPC interfaces, the CLI, Terraform provider and three SDKs, with a 602-operation OpenAPI document, X-Idempotency-Key and role-scoped service accounts. The status page lists 14 major incidents between 14 July and 8 October 2026, no request rate limits were found, and signup needs a browser and a card.

Before you call either

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

Nebius AI Cloud

  1. Use a service account with an authorised key, then exchange a five-minute RS256 JWT at https://auth.eu.nebius.com/oauth2/token/exchange for a 12-hour Bearer token
  2. Send X-Idempotency-Key with a random UUID on every create, update and delete, since a 504 can follow a call that succeeded
  3. Poll the returned operation (/ai/v1/endpoints/operations/{id}) until status is set; concurrent operations on one resource are not supported
  4. Stop or delete endpoints when idle. A stopped endpoint bills nothing, a stopped Devlab or VM still bills for its disk
  5. Check region support first. Serverless AI is absent from eu-south1 and us-north1, and each GPU platform exists in one to four regions
  6. Run the beta nebius/mcp-server with safe mode on (the default); nebius_cli_execute can run any CLI command when SAFE_MODE=false

Questions

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

Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Can an agent call Koyeb and Nebius AI Cloud without installing anything?

Yes. Koyeb has a hosted endpoint at https://app.koyeb.com/v1 and Nebius AI Cloud at https://api.nebius.cloud.

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