AKT vs NOS
Akash Network and Nosana scored on the same 25 variables, ranked against the same 251 tokens, with every gap between them shown.
Scoring pass 18 Sept 2026. Market snapshot 7 Oct 2026.
What separates them
AKT scores 129 of 250 and ranks 46th of 251. NOS scores 86 and ranks 208th. AKT leads by 43 points, which is a wide enough margin that the framework is not ambivalent. AKT takes 24 of the 25 variables, NOS takes 0, and one is level.
The framework rates AKT CAUTIOUS HOLD and NOS PASS. Two tokens close enough to compare do not have to land in the same band, and where they do not, the divergence table below is where the split comes from.
2 variables separate them by 3 points or more. AKT is clear on Real Staking Yield (6 against 3) and Catalyst Calendar (6 against 3).
Both score 3 or below on Buyback and Burn. A weakness both sides share is not a reason to prefer either. It is a reason to check whether the category itself carries the problem.
AKT still has 23.2% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0% for NOS. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of AKT is taking the 1.3x dilution path and a buyer of NOS the 1x one.
AKT is valued at $210.6M against $52.5M for NOS, a 4.0x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
All 25 variables, head to head
Both tokens were scored by the same framework in the same pass, so the numbers are directly comparable. What a comparison adds over two separate pages is the gap: a 6 against a 6 is a non-event, a 9 against a 3 is the reason to hold one and not the other.
Cash flow
| Protocol Revenue | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 | |
| Revenue Trend | 6 | 4 | AKT +2 | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 4 | AKT +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 6 | 3 | AKT +3 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 6 | 4 | AKT +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 6 | 5 | AKT +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 7 | 5 | AKT +2 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 2 | AKT +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 | |
| Active Users | 4 | 3 | AKT +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 6 | 4 | AKT +2 | |
| Network Growth | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 |
Position
| Market Share | 4 | 2 | AKT +2 | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 3 | AKT +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 2 | AKT +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 4 | 3 | AKT +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 5 | 3 | AKT +2 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 7 | 5 | AKT +2 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 6 | 3 | AKT +3 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 3 | AKT +1 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 4 | AKT +2 | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 4 | AKT +2 |
Bars read outward from the centre: AKT to the left, NOS to the right. The side that leads a variable is filled. Each score is 1 to 10 against the same definition applied to all 251 rated tokens.
Market and supply
| AKT | NOS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.7055 | $0.5247 |
| Market cap | $210.6M | $52.5M |
| Circulating | 76.8% | 100% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.3x | 1x |
| Off all-time high | -91.3% | -93.3% |
| To recover the high | 11.5x | 14.9x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Akash | Solana |
Price, market cap and all-time high from the CoinGecko snapshot fetched 7 Oct 2026. Supply shares are derived from circulating and eventual supply counts, which do not move with price. The 25 scores come from the research pass dated 18 Sept 2026.
Catalyst and risk on each side
AKT · CAUTIOUS HOLD
GPU leasing demand from AI startups; confidential compute and persistent storage launches
Actual AKT-denominated revenue remains modest; centralized clouds (AWS, Lambda) competing aggressively on price; token not required for marketplace use
NOS · PASS
Decentralized GPU compute for AI inference; Solana integration.
Competition from Filecoin and Akash; hardware supply constraints.
Common questions
- Is AKT or NOS the better investment?
- On this framework AKT scores higher: 129 against 86 of 250, and it is rated CAUTIOUS HOLD against PASS. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and AKT still wins 24 of the 25 individual variables against NOS.
- What is the biggest difference between AKT and NOS?
- Real Staking Yield. AKT scores 6 of 10 there and NOS scores 3, a gap of 3 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, AKT or NOS?
- AKT is valued at $210.6M and NOS at $52.5M on the latest market snapshot.
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Research and analysis, not investment advice. A higher score is one framework applied consistently to 251 tokens, not a prediction that one asset will outperform the other.