{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "simplismart", "name": "Simplismart", "vendor": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://simplismart.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "inference", "summary": "Simplismart is an inference platform for open models. It runs 150+ models on shared pay-per-token endpoints with an OpenAI-compatible API, and handles dedicated GPU deployments, bring-your-own-cloud clusters and fine-tuning jobs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.simplismart.live", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "simplismart-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys made under Settings, API Keys. Each key has a unique name and an expiry chosen at creation; non-expiring keys need a request to support. Keys return 401 after midnight UTC on the expiry date and can be deleted at once. The Python SDK and CLI use a separate Playground token. Organisation roles are Admin, Member and Billing User, and workspaces scope models and deployments.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Shared endpoints are priced per 1M tokens, per image or per audio minute, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 and DeepSeek-V3 at $0.90 per 1M tokens. Dedicated GPUs run from $1.20 (T4) to $5.20 (H200) per GPU-hour. Prepaid credits at $1 each; new organisations may receive $5 of free credits.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs (llms.txt index, billing, API keys and API reference pages) or on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026. Credits are bought by card, UPI or netbanking, or billed postpaid.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-28" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.simplismart.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/openapi-specs/playground/llama-8b.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "speech.stt", "image.generate", "compute.endpoints", "finetune.sft", "finetune.lora", "finetune.preference", "finetune.rl" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "dedicated-endpoints", "byoc", "fine-tuning" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 29.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1146, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 31 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-28" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.", "bestFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.", "strengths": [ "Public per-unit prices without a login, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 per 1M tokens and Whisper v3 Turbo at $0.0018 per audio minute", "API keys are named, carry an expiry date chosen at creation, return 401 after expiry and can be deleted at once", "Markdown docs and an llms.txt index, with OpenAPI 3.1 files for seven LLMs, Whisper and Flux", "Shared endpoints, dedicated GPU deployments and bring-your-own-cloud clusters sit on one account, with workspaces and organisation roles" ], "weaknesses": [ "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages", "No status page, incident history or SLA document found; the 99.99% uptime figure is a homepage claim", "Tool calling, structured output, prompt caching and context lengths are not documented for the shared endpoints", "The terms (13 January 2023) and privacy policy cover the website and say nothing about prompt retention or training on API data", "The pricing page lists older models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1) and omits Gemma 4 31B, the model the quickstart uses" ], "agentNotes": [ "Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.", "Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.", "Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.", "Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.", "Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 29.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 48, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-28", "maintenance": "2026-10-28", "payments": "2026-10-28", "reliability": "2026-10-28", "schema": "2026-10-28", "security": "2026-10-28", "transparency": "2026-10-28" }, "last": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-28", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.simplismart.live/chat/completions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SIMPLISMART_API_KEY\" -d '{\"model\": \"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/simplismart" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Llama 3.1 8B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Single per-1M-token rate on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026; input and output are not priced separately" }, { "item": "Llama 3.3 70B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.74, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "DeepSeek-V3 (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Whisper v3 Turbo (shared)", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0018, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Flux Dev (shared, 1024x1024)", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "NVIDIA H100, dedicated", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5, "note": "Pricing page table order, checked 28 October 2026; a Simplismart article gives $4.00 per hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "domain": "simplismart.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-28", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 13 January 2023) and privacy policy (effective 13 January 2023) name Verute Technologies Private Limited, Indian law and an address on Residency Road, Bengaluru. Both define the Service as the simplismart.ai website.", "The inference API answers on api.simplismart.live, a separate domain named in the docs. Domain registration was not checked.", "No status page found. The docs and site link none, and status.simplismart.ai could not be reached from our network.", "No changelog found in the docs sitemap or llms.txt. Model additions appear as blog posts.", "simplismart.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404." ], "score": 48 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.json", "live": { "slug": "simplismart", "probe": { "target": "https://api.simplismart.live", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 53, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 55, "p95ms24h": 125, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:26.224508402Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bd2d6d5ffe37" }, { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:28.253583075Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "94fe8807daf7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z" } }, "answer": "Vercel AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway", "name": "Vercel AI Gateway", "vendor": "Vercel Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://vercel.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "Vercel AI Gateway is a hosted router for model APIs. One API key or Vercel OIDC token reaches models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others through OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible and AI SDK interfaces, with budgets, request logs and provider failover.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json", "repo": "https://github.com/vercel/ai", "license": "Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ai-sdk/gateway" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "ai" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "ai" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "An AI Gateway API key as a Bearer token from any environment, or a Vercel OIDC token on Vercel deployments (12 hours locally, refreshed with `vercel env pull`). Keys belong to a team, can be limited to one project and given an expiry and a budget, and are created in the dashboard, with the Vercel CLI or by `POST /v1/api-keys` with a Vercel access token. A person creates the Vercel account in a browser. Token Pass needs its own Token Pass API key, and OIDC tokens cannot spend Token Pass credit.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid AI Gateway Credits at each provider's list price, with no markup or platform fee, including BYOK. A monthly free credit covers a subset of models and needs a valid payment method on the team. Credits expire a year after purchase. Add-ons are billed separately, and Token Pass is $30 a team a month on Pro for $80 of credit on two models, in early access (https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing, https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/token-pass, checked 2026-10-17).", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the AI Gateway docs, the pricing page, the Token Pass pages or the AI Gateway entries of the changelog sitemap. Payment is by prepaid credits bought with a card, or by invoice on Enterprise (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 29597661, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway", "llmsTxt": "https://vercel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://vercel.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "inference.router", "inference.llm", "inference.fast", "inference.decision", "obs.gateway", "obs.traces", "embed.text", "image.generate", "video.generate" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "router", "usage-based", "prepaid", "free-tier", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "oidc", "cli", "early-access", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 315, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 20, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 79, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "April 2026. Vercel's security bulletin says an attacker took over an employee's account through a compromised third-party AI tool, reached internal systems and decrypted non-sensitive environment variables of a limited subset of customers. AI Gateway was generally available then, and its docs have deployments keep AI Gateway and Token Pass API keys as environment variables. The bulletin documents remediation and marks the incident closed on 16 October 2026, so 3 of a possible 15 is taken, as for vercel-connect (https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident)." ], "verdict": "Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.", "bestFor": "Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.", "strengths": [ "Token prices are each provider's list price with no markup or platform fee, including requests made with the customer's own provider keys", "The model list at `GET /v1/models` needs no key and gives prices, context windows, supported parameters and ZDR and no-training flags for 474 models", "Budgets per team, project, API key or team member reject spend with a 402, distinct from a 429 rate limit", "The gateway logs request metadata only. Prompt and response content is deleted when the request completes, per the FAQ and the ZDR page", "Failed provider attempts are retried on a model's other providers, and every routing attempt appears in the request logs" ], "weaknesses": [ "The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs", "No rate-limit numbers are published, and the Enterprise SLA excludes the APIs, so the inference API carries no uptime commitment", "The contractual promise not to train on AI Gateway content covers Enterprise subscriptions only. Provider no-training and ZDR filters are opt-in per request", "A failed BYOK request falls back to Vercel's credentials and is billed to credits, and the no-training filter is not applied to BYOK", "Token Pass is early access for Pro teams only, covers two models, has no failover and fails with a 403 once the $80 credit is spent" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling", "Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies", "Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it", "On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits", "Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 20, "reliability": 74, "schema": 74, "security": 79, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 86, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-17", "maintenance": "2026-10-17", "payments": "2026-10-17", "reliability": "2026-10-17", "schema": "2026-10-17", "security": "2026-10-17", "transparency": "2026-10-17" }, "last": "2026-10-17", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-17", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pnpm add ai@latest", "http": "curl https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"openai/gpt-6-astra\",\n \"messages\": [\n {\n \"role\": \"user\",\n \"content\": \"Explain AI Gateway in one sentence.\"\n }\n ]\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/vercel-ai-gateway" }, "sameCompany": [ "vercel-sandbox", "vercel-connect" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Token Pass subscription (Pro teams)", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "$80 of monthly credit on two featured models. Early access" }, { "item": "Team-wide Zero Data Retention", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Pro and Enterprise. Per-request ZDR is free" }, { "item": "Team-wide provider allowlist", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.1, "note": "Successful requests, Pro and Enterprise" }, { "item": "Custom Reporting query", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "Queries to the reporting endpoint" }, { "item": "Custom Reporting write of a tag, user ID or quota entity ID", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.075, "note": "Each unique value in a request counts as one write" }, { "item": "AI Gateway trace delivered to a drain", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Listed per 1,000 traces, Pro and Enterprise" }, { "item": "Trace egress", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.5, "note": "Billed through Drains usage" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Vercel Inc.", "domain": "vercel.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-10-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://vercel.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://www.vercel-status.com", "changelog": "https://vercel.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 1 June 2026) name Vercel Inc. The AI Product Terms (last updated 17 March 2026, effective 31 March 2026) have a section for AI Gateway and form part of those terms.", "The Privacy Notice is effective from 1 June 2026. The DPA (effective 31 March 2026) applies to Pro and Enterprise plans.", "https://vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt points to HackerOne and responsible.disclosure@vercel.com and expires 2027-09-28.", "The API answers at ai-gateway.vercel.sh, a Vercel domain other than vercel.com. Management calls go to api.vercel.com.", "RDAP gives vercel.com a registration date of 1999-10-04, long before Vercel, so the domain was bought later.", "AI Gateway is a component on the status page at www.vercel-status.com." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json", "live": { "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway", "probe": { "target": "https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:11.232272387Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 36, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 38, "p95ms24h": 84, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 2600, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", 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Both do llm inference.\n\n- Simplismart: grade F, 29.7/100, rank #1146 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n- Vercel AI Gateway: grade B, 66.8/100, rank #315 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vercel-ai-gateway.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 497 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Simplismart (F)\n\nGood for: Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Vercel AI Gateway loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages\n\n### Vercel AI Gateway (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want one key, one bill, budgets and failover in front of many model providers, especially on Vercel with OIDC.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 74 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 17\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 42\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 31\n\nWatch for: The free monthly credit needs a valid payment method on the team, and its amount is not stated in the reviewed docs\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Simplismart | Vercel AI Gateway | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +59 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 74 | Vercel AI Gateway +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 17 | 83 | Vercel AI Gateway +66 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 35 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +44 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 20 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 79 | Vercel AI Gateway +37 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 71 | Vercel AI Gateway +40 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **29.7 · F** | **66.8 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Simplismart | Vercel AI Gateway |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Verute Technologies Private Limited | Vercel Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.simplismart.live` | `https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences. | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and AI Product Terms, with Token Pass terms on its docs page. Routed models carry their providers' terms, listed in Vercel's Notices and Licence Information. The `@ai-sdk/gateway` provider is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | | 2026-06-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-06-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 29.6M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Simplismart.** Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.\n\n**Vercel AI Gateway.** Token prices pass through with no markup, prompts are not stored by the gateway, and budgets, provider failover and per-request logs are built in. The free monthly credit needs a card on file, rate limits are not published as numbers, no SLA covers the API, and the contractual promise not to train on content applies to Enterprise subscriptions only.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Simplismart\n\n1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.\n2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.\n3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.\n4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.\n5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.\n\n### Vercel AI Gateway\n\n1. Read `GET https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models` without a key to pick a model ID and check its price, context, ZDR and no-training flags before calling\n2. Set `zeroDataRetention` or `disallowPromptTraining` to true in `providerOptions.gateway` on sensitive requests. Default routing ignores provider retention and training policies\n3. Treat a 429 as retryable and honour `retry-after` when present. A 402 with `quota_for_entity_exceeded` is a spent budget, so do not retry it\n4. On a Token Pass key, a 403 with `no_providers_available` means spent credit or a model outside the pass. Retry with a standard AI Gateway key, which bills credits\n5. Set `inferenceRegion` when data residency matters. The default `global` may run inference outside the user's jurisdiction\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Simplismart or Vercel AI Gateway?\n\nVercel AI Gateway scores 66.8 (B) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Simplismart and Vercel AI Gateway need an API key?\n\nSimplismart needs an API key. Vercel AI Gateway takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Simplismart and Vercel AI Gateway without installing anything?\n\nYes. Simplismart has a hosted endpoint at https://api.simplismart.live and Vercel AI Gateway at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"simplismart\", \"b\": \"vercel-ai-gateway\"}`. 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