# Koyeb vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Vast.ai scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu.

- Koyeb: D 46.5, rank #646 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koyeb.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #331 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.min.md
- Koyeb, 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.
- 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 60; Schema & documentation, 78 against 41; Security & auth, 72 against 50; Maintenance & community, 81 against 23.

| Category | Koyeb | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 41 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 23 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Koyeb | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Koyeb | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.koyeb.com/v1` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Auth | Token | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-05-12 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-06-18 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 72 stars | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |