# Replicate Deployments vs Vast.ai (slim)

> Replicate Deployments scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Vast.ai's 62.6 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vast.ai leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Replicate Deployments scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Vast.ai's 62.6 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vast.ai leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do compute gpu.

- Replicate Deployments: B 63.6, rank #303 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-deploy.min.md
- Vast.ai: B 62.6, rank #331 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vast-ai.min.md
- Replicate Deployments, good for Teams already calling Replicate's public models who want their own model behind the same API, MCP server and webhooks. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 65; Schema & documentation, 85 against 78; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 57; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Transparency & trust, 78 against 62. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- 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 Security & auth, 72 against 40; Maintenance & community, 81 against 70.

| Category | Replicate Deployments | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 62 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Replicate Deployments | Vast.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Replicate | Vast.ai Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.replicate.com/v1` | `https://console.vast.ai/api/v0` |
| Transports | HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Vast.ai's Terms of Use Agreement. The `vastai` CLI and Python SDK on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-04-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 | 2025-06-18 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 9.5k stars, 634k npm/wk, 387k PyPI/wk | 223 stars, 33k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |