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The separate Terms of Use page covers the website.", "The privacy policy (23 September 2026) gives Nebius B.V., Burgerweeshuispad 101, 1076ER Amsterdam, and says data processed for customers as a processor falls under the DPA at https://docs.nebius.com/legal/dpa.", "The API answers at api.nebius.cloud and tokens are exchanged at auth.eu.nebius.com. nebius.cloud is a second domain that Nebius's docs name for the API and the CLI installer.", "security.txt at nebius.com gives security@nebius.com and expires 2027-12-31. It has no Policy field.", "The changelog link is the CLI release notes, which are generated from the API. 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Cards, crypto after KYC, prepaid cards at $100 or more a transaction, invoicing above $5,000 (https://www.runpod.io/pricing, https://docs.runpod.io/serverless/pricing, https://docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/billing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 314, "npmWeekly": 21838, "pypiWeekly": 146926, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.runpod.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.runpod.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.runpod.io/v2/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.serverless", "compute.endpoints", "compute.batch", "compute.containers" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "prepaid", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "async-jobs", "batch", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 53.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 629, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 47, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 20, "reliability": 35, "schema": 81, "security": 60, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-second billing across more than a dozen serverless GPU classes, H100 at $4.79 and A100 80 GB at $2.72 an hour. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runpod.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runpod.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nebius AI Cloud (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 57 against 35\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 47\n- Security \u0026 auth, 81 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 77 against 63\n\nWatch 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\n\n### Runpod (D)\n\nGood for: Cost-sensitive inference and batch work that wants the widest GPU choice, from consumer cards to B300, with an MCP control plane.\n\nWatch for: Data-centre outages of 6 to 24 hours in each of July, August and September 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nebius AI Cloud | Runpod | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 35 | Nebius AI Cloud +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 81 | Runpod +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 47 | Nebius AI Cloud +30 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 81 | 60 | Nebius AI Cloud +21 |\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) | 82 | 82 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 63 | Nebius AI Cloud +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.2 · B** | **53.5 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nebius AI Cloud | Runpod |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Nebius | Runpod |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.nebius.cloud` | `https://api.runpod.ai/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| Price for compute gpu | $1.35 per GPU-hour | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-28 | 2026-03-24 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-23 | 2025-08-07 |\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 | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk | 314 stars, 22k npm/wk, 147k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Runpod.** Per-second billing across more than a dozen serverless GPU classes, H100 at $4.79 and A100 80 GB at $2.72 an hour. Data-centre outages of 6 to 24 hours in each of July, August and September 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nebius AI Cloud\n\n1. 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\n2. Send `X-Idempotency-Key` with a random UUID on every create, update and delete, since a 504 can follow a call that succeeded\n3. Poll the returned operation (`/ai/v1/endpoints/operations/{id}`) until `status` is set; concurrent operations on one resource are not supported\n4. Stop or delete endpoints when idle. A stopped endpoint bills nothing, a stopped Devlab or VM still bills for its disk\n5. Check region support first. Serverless AI is absent from `eu-south1` and `us-north1`, and each GPU platform exists in one to four regions\n6. Run the beta `nebius/mcp-server` with safe mode on (the default); `nebius_cli_execute` can run any CLI command when `SAFE_MODE=false`\n\n### Runpod\n\n1. Create a Restricted or Read Only key per endpoint for the agent, not an All key\n2. Use REST v2 at api.runpod.io/v2 with a Bearer header; avoid GraphQL, which puts the key in the URL\n3. Fetch `/run` results within 30 minutes and `/runsync` results within 1 minute, or they're gone\n4. Call `/retry` on a failed job ID rather than submitting a duplicate job\n5. Check `/health` before relying on an endpoint idle for a week, since max workers drop to 0\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nebius AI Cloud or Runpod?\n\nNebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Runpod's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Nebius AI Cloud and Runpod need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Nebius AI Cloud and Runpod without installing anything?\n\nYes. Nebius AI Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.nebius.cloud and Runpod at https://api.runpod.ai/v2.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-runpod.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-runpod.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nebius-ai-cloud\", \"b\": \"runpod\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare nebius-ai-cloud runpod`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nebius-ai-cloud.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/runpod.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Nebius AI Cloud or Runpod\n\n- [Baseten vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Baseten vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Beam vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Beam vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Cerebrium vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Cerebrium vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-runpod.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-endpoints-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-endpoints-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Hyperbolic vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbolic-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Hyperbolic vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbolic-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Koyeb vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Koyeb vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Modal vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Modal vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/modal-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Nebius AI Cloud vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-verda.md)\n- [Northflank vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Replicate Deployments vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/replicate-deploy-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Runpod vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Runpod vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Runpod vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-verda.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Nebius AI Cloud vs Runpod", "url": "" } ], "description": "Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Runpod's 53.5 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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