# Northflank vs Verda

> Verda scores 62.3 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Northflank leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Verda scores 62.3 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Northflank leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Northflank: grade C, 61.3/100, rank #426 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/northflank.json
- Verda: grade B, 62.3/100, rank #396 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verda.json

## Which one, for what

### Northflank (C)

Good for: Teams that want GPUs next to their services and databases on one platform, or inside their own cloud account.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 75 against 68
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Verda loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No scale to zero for services; minimum instances must be at least 1

### 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:
- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 48
- Maintenance & community, 83 against 65
- Transparency & trust, 76 against 55

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Northflank | Verda | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 67 | Verda +2 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 82 | Verda +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 48 | 63 | Verda +15 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 75 | 68 | Northflank +7 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Northflank +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 83 | Verda +18 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 76 | Verda +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **61.3 · C** | **62.3 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Northflank | Verda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Northflank | Verda |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.northflank.com/v1` | `https://api.verda.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | Token | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 18 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2021-03-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2021-03-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | 19k npm/wk | 10k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**Northflank.** OpenAPI 3.0 with over 100 paths, enums and `per_page`, `page` and `cursor` on every list. No scale to zero for services; minimum instances must be at least 1.

**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

### Northflank

1. Issue the agent a team token under an API role limited to one project, not a personal token
2. Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and wait `x-ratelimit-reset` seconds on a 429; the default is 1,000 calls an hour
3. Page lists with `per_page` up to 100 and the returned `cursor` instead of numbered pages
4. Use a job, not a service, for anything that finishes; services bill until paused or deleted
5. Fetch any docs page with .md appended to get Markdown

### 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, Northflank or Verda?

Verda scores 62.3 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Northflank leads on security & auth and payments & pricing.

### Can an agent call Northflank and Verda without installing anything?

Yes. Northflank has a hosted endpoint at https://api.northflank.com/v1 and Verda at https://api.verda.com/v1.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-verda.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-verda.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "northflank", "b": "verda"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare northflank verda`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/northflank.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verda.json

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