Anthropic vs Novita AI
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Anthropic and Novita AI built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Anthropic if…
Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Novita AI if…
Breadth — 200+ models under one API with a cache-read rate published next to most of them, and an H100 SXM at $3.39 an hour if the same vendor should run the dedicated side too.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Anthropic: Its cheapest model is $1 per million input tokens, several times what the budget tiers at Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek charge, so high-volume simple work is priced against you.
- Novita AI: It is rarely the cheapest for any given model: DeepInfra serves DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at $0.06 against Novita's $0.44, and its H100 is $2.20 against Novita's $3.39 on demand.
18 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Anthropic 0
Novita AI 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Anthropic | Novita AI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | No | Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token. |
| Kind of free offer | Free credit | Free tier |
| Pricing model | Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium. | Per-token serverless inference with a cache-read rate published beside most models, and GPU instances offered at both on-demand and spot rates — the spot column is roughly half. Two models, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin and Sante, are listed at no charge on both input and output. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Regions | Two inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only. | GPU cloud page advertises 14 global regions in its feature list and, lower on the same page, 20+ locations across 4+ continents. |
| Inference | ||
| Input price, top model | $10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model. | $2.00 per million input tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the most expensive model in its catalogue, with cache reads at $0.25 and output at $6.00. |
| Output price, top model | $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1. | $6.00 per million output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max. |
| Input price, cheapest model | $1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model. | $0.075 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash at short context, rising to $0.15 above the threshold, with cache reads at $0.015 and output at $0.25. Fireworks serves the same model at $0.15. |
| Context window | 1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5. | 1M tokens on the DeepSeek V4 line and GLM 5.3, published as "1M" rather than an exact figure — so it is recorded at 1,000,000 and may in practice be the 1,048,576 other providers state. Qwen3.8 is listed at 977K. |
| Max output tokens | 128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5. | 128K (131,072) maximum output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the highest-priced model in the catalogue, against a 977K context. |
| Prompt caching | Supported — Priced separately: 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes, with cheaper cache hits and refreshes. | Supported |
| Batch discount | 50% off both input and output tokens through the Batch API, for asynchronous processing. | Introductory 50% discount on input and output tokens for supported models when submitted through the Batch API. |
| Rate limits | Per-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap. | Per-model RPM and TPM ceilings set by account tier T1–T5, where tier follows monthly top-ups: T1 up to $50 a month, T5 at least $10,000 in one of the last three months. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request. | SOC 2 Type II; the audit report is available under NDA to enterprise customers on request through the Trust Center. |
| HIPAA | HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered. | Not by default configured to comply with HIPAA, FISMA or GLBA; the Terms of Service direct affected users to contact support for enterprise arrangements. Terms of Use section 1, page updated August 5, 2026. |
| GDPR / data residency | Inference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option. | GDPR compliance claimed; EU/EEA transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (Module 2), UK transfers on the IDTA or UK Addendum. |
| Encryption at rest | Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it. | AES-256 for data at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit between customers, Novita and its service providers. |
| Role-based access control | Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles. | Team accounts define five roles — Owner, Admin, Developer, Basic and Billing — each with read/write or view-only rights over all or only self-created resources. |
| Private networking / VPC | AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint. Claude Platform on AWS; the statement does not extend to the first-party api.anthropic.com endpoint. | Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway, listed as a GPU cloud platform feature. |
| Dedicated infrastructure | Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales. | Deployments give a dedicated inference endpoint on exclusive GPUs, unlike serverless endpoints that share compute with other users. |
Where they differ.
Free tier
- Anthropic
- No
- Novita AI
- Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Are there free tiers or trials? [...] New users receive a small amount of free credits to test the API. Contact sales for information about extended trials for enterprise evaluation.”
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- Pricing | Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash VL 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free”
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Kind of free offer
- Anthropic
- Free credit
- Novita AI
- Free tier
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Are there free tiers or trials? [...] New users receive a small amount of free credits to test the API. Contact sales for information about extended trials for enterprise evaluation.”
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- Pricing | Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash VL 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free”
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Pricing model
- Anthropic
- Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium.
- Novita AI
- Per-token serverless inference with a cache-read rate published beside most models, and GPU instances offered at both on-demand and spot rates — the spot column is roughly half. Two models, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin and Sante, are listed at no charge on both input and output.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“This page provides detailed pricing information for Anthropic's models and features. All prices are in USD. [...] These multipliers stack with other pricing modifiers, including the Batch API discount and data residency. [...] specifying US-only inference through the inference_geo parameter incurs a 1.1x multiplier on all token pricing categories”
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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“Ling 3.0 Flash Fin 256K Free Free [...] Ling 3.0 Flash Sante 256K Free Free [...] On-Demand SPOT”
Read 2026-09-07 · official pricing · Report a correction
Regions
- Anthropic
- Two inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only.
- Novita AI
- GPU cloud page advertises 14 global regions in its feature list and, lower on the same page, 20+ locations across 4+ continents.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Data residency - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Default. Inference may run in any available geography for optimal performance and availability. [...] Inference runs only in US-based infrastructure. [...] is the only available workspace geo.”
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- GPU Cloud - High-Performance GPUs for AI | Novita AI ↗
“14 global regions Low-latency backbone with private peering. [...] 20+ locations 4+ continents”
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Input price, top model
- Anthropic
- $10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model.
- Novita AI
- $2.00 per million input tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the most expensive model in its catalogue, with cache reads at $0.25 and output at $6.00.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Model Base input tokens 5m cache writes 1h cache writes Cache hits and refreshes Output tokens Claude Fable 5.1 $10 / MTok $12.50 / MTok $20 / MTok $0.25 / MTok 1 $50 / MTok”
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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“Qwen3.8 Max 977K $2 /Mt · Cache Read $0.25 /Mt $6 /Mt”
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Output price, top model
- Anthropic
- $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1.
- Novita AI
- $6.00 per million output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Model Base input tokens 5m cache writes 1h cache writes Cache hits and refreshes Output tokens Claude Fable 5.1 $10 / MTok $12.50 / MTok $20 / MTok $0.25 / MTok 1 $50 / MTok”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“Qwen3.8 Max 977K $2 /Mt · Cache Read $0.25 /Mt $6 /Mt”
Read 2026-09-07 · official pricing · Report a correction
Input price, cheapest model
- Anthropic
- $1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.
- Novita AI
- $0.075 per million input tokens for GLM 5.3 Flash at short context, rising to $0.15 above the threshold, with cache reads at $0.015 and output at $0.25. Fireworks serves the same model at $0.15.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“Claude Haiku 4.5 $1 / MTok $1.25 / MTok $2 / MTok $0.10 / MTok $5 / MTok”
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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“GLM 5.3 Flash 1M $0.075 /Mt · Cache Read $0.015 /Mt $0.15 /Mt · Cache Read $0.03 /Mt $0.25 /Mt $0.5 /Mt”
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Context window
1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
1M tokens on the DeepSeek V4 line and GLM 5.3, published as "1M" rather than an exact figure — so it is recorded at 1,000,000 and may in practice be the 1,048,576 other providers state. Qwen3.8 is listed at 977K.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Models overview — Claude Docs ↗
“Context window 1M tokens 1M tokens 1M tokens 200K tokens Max output 128K tokens 128K tokens 128K tokens 64K tokens”
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- Pricing — Novita AI ↗
“DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 1M [...] GLM 5.3 1M [...] Qwen3.8 Max 977K”
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Max output tokens
- Anthropic
- 128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
- Novita AI
- 128K (131,072) maximum output tokens for Qwen3.8 Max, the highest-priced model in the catalogue, against a 977K context.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Models overview — Claude Docs ↗
“Context window 1M tokens 1M tokens 1M tokens 200K tokens Max output 128K tokens 128K tokens 128K tokens 64K tokens”
Read 2026-09-14 · official docs · Report a correction
- Qwen3.8 Max API & Playground | Novita AI ↗
“Context Length 977K Max Output 128K”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Batch discount
- Anthropic
- 50% off both input and output tokens through the Batch API, for asynchronous processing.
- Novita AI
- Introductory 50% discount on input and output tokens for supported models when submitted through the Batch API.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Claude Docs ↗
“The Batch API allows asynchronous processing of large volumes of requests with a 50% discount on both input and output tokens.”
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- Pricing | Novita AI ↗
“Batch inference is available at an introductory 50% discount on input and output tokens for supported models.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
Rate limits
- Anthropic
- Per-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap.
- Novita AI
- Per-model RPM and TPM ceilings set by account tier T1–T5, where tier follows monthly top-ups: T1 up to $50 a month, T5 at least $10,000 in one of the last three months.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Rate limits - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“The rate limits for the Messages API are measured in requests per minute (RPM), input tokens per minute (ITPM), and output tokens per minute (OTPM) for each model class. [...] Claude Opus 5 1,000 2,000,000 400,000 [...] Usage tier Monthly spend cap Start $500 USD Build $1,000 USD Scale $200,000 USD”
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- Rate limits — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Each account has a default rate limit for model calls, measured in RPM (requests per model per minute) and TPM (tokens per model per minute). [...] T1 Monthly top-ups did not exceed $50 in any of the last 3 calendar months. [...] T5 Monthly top-ups were at least $10,000 in at least one of the last 3 calendar months.”
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SOC 2
- Anthropic
- SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request.
- Novita AI
- SOC 2 Type II; the audit report is available under NDA to enterprise customers on request through the Trust Center.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Anthropic Trust Center ↗
“Compliance HIPAA SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001:2022 ISO/IEC 42001:2023 FedRAMP High UK Cyber Essentials [...] [Anthropic] 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 Report.pdf”
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- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“SOC 2 Type II: Available under NDA for enterprise customers [...] Detailed audit reports are available under NDA to enterprise customers upon request.”
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HIPAA
- Anthropic
- HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered.
- Novita AI
- Not by default configured to comply with HIPAA, FISMA or GLBA; the Terms of Service direct affected users to contact support for enterprise arrangements. Terms of Use section 1, page updated August 5, 2026.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- API and data retention - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“The Claude API supports HIPAA-ready integrations for organizations that handle protected health information (PHI). With a signed BAA and a HIPAA-enabled organization, you can use supported API features to process PHI [...] Claude Code: Claude Code is not covered under HIPAA readiness. [...] Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry: HIPAA readiness is not available on these platforms.”
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- Novita AI Terms of Service ↗
“The Site is not by default configured to comply with certain industry-specific regulations (including HIPAA, FISMA, and GLBA). If your use of the Site or Marketplace Offerings is subject to such laws, please contact us at support@novita.ai to discuss enterprise compliance arrangements before proceeding.”
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GDPR / data residency
- Anthropic
- Inference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option.
- Novita AI
- GDPR compliance claimed; EU/EEA transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (Module 2), UK transfers on the IDTA or UK Addendum.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Data residency - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“inference geo: controls where model inference runs, on a per-request basis [...] Workspace geo is set when you create a workspace and can [...] is the only available workspace geo.”
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- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“GDPR Compliance: Aligned with EU requirements [...] Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) — European Commission Decision 2021/914 (Module 2: Controller-to-Processor), as appropriate to your deployment model”
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Encryption at rest
- Anthropic
- Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it.
- Novita AI
- AES-256 for data at rest; TLS 1.2+ in transit between customers, Novita and its service providers.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Customer-managed encryption keys - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“have Anthropic use it to encrypt certain workspace data at rest [...] Eligible organizations can opt in to use customer-managed encryption keys instead of the default encryption that Anthropic provides.”
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- Novita AI Trust Center — FAQ ↗
“Data at rest: AES-256 encryption for stored data [...] Data in transit: TLS 1.2+ encryption between you and our services, and between us and our service providers”
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Role-based access control
- Anthropic
- Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles.
- Novita AI
- Team accounts define five roles — Owner, Admin, Developer, Basic and Billing — each with read/write or view-only rights over all or only self-created resources.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- User management - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Groups connect members to custom roles (role-based access control, the RBAC in the endpoint paths and scope names) [...] Every member has exactly one organization role. Reads return the member”
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- Team — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Role is a set of permissions that define what actions a member can perform within a team. There are 5 roles in one team: [...] Action : Either Read/Write (create, update, delete, query) or View (query and list only). [...] Owner The highest level of permission. Manages the team, billing, and all resources. Each team has exactly one Owner.”
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Private networking / VPC
- Anthropic
- AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint. Claude Platform on AWS; the statement does not extend to the first-party api.anthropic.com endpoint.
- Novita AI
- Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway, listed as a GPU cloud platform feature.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Claude Platform on AWS - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint.”
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- GPU Cloud - High-Performance GPUs for AI | Novita AI ↗
“Private networking Per-project VPC, peering and transit gateway.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Dedicated infrastructure
- Anthropic
- Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales.
- Novita AI
- Deployments give a dedicated inference endpoint on exclusive GPUs, unlike serverless endpoints that share compute with other users.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Service tiers - Claude Platform Docs ↗
“Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer available for purchase. Organizations with an existing commitment can continue to use Priority Tier through their contract end date”
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- Novita Deployments User Guide — Novita AI Documentation ↗
“Unlike Serverless endpoints that share compute resources with other users, each Deployment gives you: [...] All compute resources are yours alone — no noisy neighbors”
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When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Free tier: Anthropic or Novita AI?
Anthropic: No
Novita AI: Yes — Three inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash variants are listed at $0 input and $0 output; all other models are paid per token.
Should I choose Anthropic or Novita AI?
Pick Anthropic if Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.
Pick Novita AI if Breadth — 200+ models under one API with a cache-read rate published next to most of them, and an H100 SXM at $3.39 an hour if the same vendor should run the dedicated side too.
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