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Head to head · Compute gpu · October 2026 research run

Nebius AI Cloud vs Verda

Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Verda's 62.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Verda leads on reliability. Both do compute gpu.

Nebius AI CloudNebius · HTTP API B67.2/100#240 of 841 VerdaVerda · HTTP API B62.3/100#396 of 841

Which one, for what

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

  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 63
  • Security & auth, 81 against 68

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Verda loses 3 points for them

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

Verda B

Good for Agents that rent whole GPU machines or clusters in Finland for training or batch work, or deploy scale-to-zero container endpoints, and that can run a local CLI for MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 57

Watch for

No free tier. Accounts are prepaid, and instances are discontinued and volumes deleted when the balance reaches zero

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runNebius AI CloudVerdaEdge
Reliability16%205767Verda +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27882Verda +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.27763Nebius AI Cloud +14
Security & auth14%17.58168Nebius AI Cloud +13
Payments & pricing10%12.52020even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88283Verda +1
Transparency & trust7%8.87776Nebius AI Cloud +1
Negative events≤150-3
Total67.2 · B62.3 · B

Facts side by side

FactNebius AI CloudVerda
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorNebiusVerda
Hosted endpointhttps://api.nebius.cloudhttps://api.verda.com/v1
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingPay per usePay per use
Price for compute gpu$1.35 per GPU-hournot published
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MITProprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0
Tools exposednone18
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-072026-10-07
Terms last updated2026-09-282025-09-30
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-23no date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesyes
Popularity4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk10k PyPI/wk

Verdicts

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.

Verda

The REST API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, a dated changelog, published rate limits with Retry-After, and an audit log endpoint. The CLI's MCP server refuses billed or destructive calls without confirm: true. Access needs a browser signup and a prepaid balance, credentials carry one scope, and instance creation has no idempotency key.

Before you call either

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

Verda

  1. Exchange the client ID and secret at POST /v1/oauth2/token, then send the access token as a Bearer header. It expires after 3,600 seconds, so refresh it.
  2. Send location_code on every create call. Requests without it have returned 400 since March 2026.
  3. Call GET /v1/instance-availability before launching. POST /v1/instances returns 503 service_unavailable when the location has no capacity.
  4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, because create has no idempotency key.
  5. Use the delete action to stop charges. shutdown keeps billing, and deleted volumes stay recoverable for 96 hours unless delete_permanently is set.

Questions

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

Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Verda's 62.3 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Verda leads on reliability.

Do Nebius AI Cloud and Verda need an API key?

Nebius AI Cloud takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Verda uses an OAuth sign-in.

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

Yes. Nebius AI Cloud has a hosted endpoint at https://api.nebius.cloud and Verda at https://api.verda.com/v1.

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