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Container disk $0.10 a GB-month, volume disk $0.10 running and $0.20 idle, network volumes $0.07 a GB-month under 1 TB and $0.05 above, high-performance $0.14. Default spend cap $80 an hour. 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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Agents use its REST API, Python and Go SDKs, or a CLI with a built-in MCP server in beta.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verda.json", "repo": "https://github.com/verda-cloud/verda-cli", "license": "Proprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.verda.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "verda" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/verda-cloud/verdacloud-sdk-go" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A signed-in user creates a Client ID and Client Secret on the console's Credentials page, and the secret is shown once. `POST /v1/oauth2/token` with the client credentials grant returns an access token valid for 3,600 seconds and a refresh token, both with the scope `cloud-api-v1`. Credentials belong to the member who created them and are deleted when that member leaves the project. The CLI and its MCP server read the same pair from `~/.verda/credentials` after `verda auth login`. A few catalogue endpoints such as `GET /v1/instance-types` need no token.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "No free tier or trial. Accounts are prepaid by card or bank transfer, and Pay As You Go is charged in prepaid 10-minute increments with the unused part refunded. On-demand prices per GPU an hour on 8 October 2026 include H100 80 GB at $3.89, H200 at $5.07, B200 at $7.34 and A100 80 GB at $1.87, with spot at about half. Reserved terms take 2 to 25 per cent off. Serverless containers bill per minute of replica use. Free credits are granted only for approved blog posts or videos (https://verda.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs corpus, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 18, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 10461, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.verda.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.verda.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.verda.com/v1/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.serverless", "compute.endpoints", "compute.batch", "compute.containers" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-priced", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "cli", "oauth", "python", "go", "terraform", "status-page", "soc2", "europe" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.3, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 396, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 20, "reliability": 67, "schema": 82, "security": 68, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-03-19, making `location_code` required on `POST /v1/instances`, `POST /v1/clusters` and `POST /v1/volumes`. Requests that had defaulted to FIN-01 began returning 400. The API changelog dates the change 19 March and the docs 23 March, and neither records advance notice. Documented, so 3 points (https://docs.verda.com/welcome-to-verda/release-notes/verda-api-changes/index.md)." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1 document with 112 operations and 156 schemas, plus `llms.txt` files on three hosts and the whole docs corpus as Markdown", "Rate limits of 500 requests a minute per project and 60 per endpoint, with `RateLimit` headers and `Retry-After` on 429", "API changelog with 11 dated entries between 11 September and 7 October 2026", "Audit log endpoint in CloudEvents 1.0 format covering 90 days, with the caller's IP address and origin on resource events", "The 18-tool MCP server refuses `create_vm`, `create_volume` and destructive `vm_action` calls unless `confirm: true` is passed" ], "weaknesses": [ "No free tier. Accounts are prepaid, and instances are discontinued and volumes deleted when the balance reaches zero", "Cloud API credentials carry one scope, `cloud-api-v1`, with no read-only credential found in the reviewed documentation", "`POST /v1/instances` has no idempotency key, so a retried launch can start a second billed instance", "The MCP server is marked beta and its tools carry no read-only or destructive annotations", "On 30 December 2025 a storage migration overwrote part of a shared filesystem in FIN-03, and Verda reported irreversible data loss for some customers", "No SLA was found, and the terms give no warranty of uninterrupted availability" ], "agentNotes": [ "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.", "Send `location_code` on every create call. Requests without it have returned 400 since March 2026.", "Call `GET /v1/instance-availability` before launching. `POST /v1/instances` returns 503 `service_unavailable` when the location has no capacity.", "List instances before retrying a failed launch, because create has no idempotency key.", "Use the `delete` action to stop charges. `shutdown` keeps billing, and deleted volumes stay recoverable for 96 hours unless `delete_permanently` is set." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 20, "reliability": 67, "schema": 82, "security": 68, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install verda-cloud/tap/verda-cli", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.verda.com/v1/oauth2/token -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"grant_type\":\"client_credentials\",\"client_id\":\"\u003cYOUR_CLIENT_ID\u003e\",\"client_secret\":\"\u003cYOUR_CLIENT_SECRET\u003e\"}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "verda": { "args": [ "mcp", "serve" ], "command": "verda" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu", "tool": "https://letme.dev/verda" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "H100 SXM5 80 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3.89, "note": "Spot $1.95. Billed in prepaid 10-minute increments" }, { "item": "H200 SXM5 141 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5.07, "note": "Spot $2.54" }, { "item": "B200 SXM6 180 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 7.34, "note": "Spot $3.67" }, { "item": "B300 SXM6 268 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 9.24, "note": "Spot $4.62" }, { "item": "A100 SXM4 80 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.87, "note": "Spot $0.935" }, { "item": "L40S 48 GB, on-demand", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.61, "note": "Spot $0.803" }, { "item": "H100 SXM5 80 GB, serverless container", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 4.28, "note": "Spot $2.14. 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They include the data processing terms.", "The CLI source carries the copyright of Verda Cloud Oy.", "The API answers at api.verda.com, a subdomain of the vendor domain.", "security.txt expires on 31 December 2026, lists security@verda.com and a policy at https://vdp.verda.com.", "RDAP for verda.com gives a registration date of 1998-05-22. 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Verda uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Runpod and Verda need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-vast-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thunder-compute-vs-verda.json", "title": "Thunder Compute vs Verda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thunder-compute-vs-verda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vast-ai-vs-verda.json", "title": "Vast.ai vs Verda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vast-ai-vs-verda" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 32, "edge": "verda", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "runpod": 35, "verda": 67, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "verda", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "runpod": 81, "verda": 82, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "edge": "verda", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "runpod": 47, "verda": 63, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "verda", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "runpod": 60, "verda": 68, 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verda.json\n\n## Which one, for what\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\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Verda loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Data-centre outages of 6 to 24 hours in each of July, August and September 2026\n\n### Verda (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 35\n- Agent ergonomics, 63 against 47\n- Security \u0026 auth, 68 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 63\n\nWatch for: No free tier. Accounts are prepaid, and instances are discontinued and volumes deleted when the balance reaches zero\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Runpod | Verda | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 67 | Verda +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 82 | Verda +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 63 | Verda +16 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 68 | Verda +8 |\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 | 83 | Verda +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 76 | Verda +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.5 · D** | **62.3 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Runpod | Verda |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Runpod | Verda |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.runpod.ai/v2` | `https://api.verda.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | 18 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-24 | 2025-09-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-07 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\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 | 314 stars, 22k npm/wk, 147k PyPI/wk | 10k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Verda\n\n1. 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.\n2. Send `location_code` on every create call. Requests without it have returned 400 since March 2026.\n3. Call `GET /v1/instance-availability` before launching. `POST /v1/instances` returns 503 `service_unavailable` when the location has no capacity.\n4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, because create has no idempotency key.\n5. Use the `delete` action to stop charges. `shutdown` keeps billing, and deleted volumes stay recoverable for 96 hours unless `delete_permanently` is set.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Runpod or Verda?\n\nVerda scores 62.3 (B) on agent readiness against Runpod's 53.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Runpod and Verda need an API key?\n\nRunpod takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Verda uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Runpod and Verda without installing anything?\n\nYes. Runpod has a hosted endpoint at https://api.runpod.ai/v2 and Verda at https://api.verda.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-verda.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/runpod-vs-verda.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"runpod\", \"b\": \"verda\"}`. 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