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- Free allowance
- No consumer-facing capacity.
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict fails-quota: the free allowance is too small to matter. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing a user does not have. Even as a supplier lane it fails first on the 32 GB RAM or supported-GPU floor, then on 'no official swarms running...
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | No consumer-facing capacity. Quoted: 'RL Swarm is a peer-to-peer reinforcement-learning swarm you can run on a laptop or a GPU server', with system requirements 'A 64-bit arm64 or x86 CPU with at least 32 GB RAM, or an officially supported NVIDIA GPU (3090, 4090, 5090, A100, H100)'. The dashboard states: 'There are no official swarms running right now.' unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing a user does not have. Even as a supplier lane it fails first on the 32 GB RAM or supported-GPU floor, then on 'no official swarms running right now'. source
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| Identity | email a Hugging Face write token: the getting-started page is quoted as requiring 'a Hugging Face write token', which in turn implies a Hugging Face account that issues it. No card, hold, phone or ID is stated, and the email kind rests on that Hugging Face account rather than on a quoted signup form. Debit and prepaid do not arise because no payment method is mentioned. The 32 GB RAM or listed NVIDIA GPU requirement is a capacity gate, not an identity one. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None. Gensyn is a market for selling compute, not buying it, and it has no live swarm. A chain that includes Gensyn would need a user to own the GPU. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | REFUTATION OF A COMMON MISREADING. Gensyn appears in free-GPU roundups because RL Swarm is free to join, but joining means contributing hardware, not receiving capacity. Three independent facts kill it as a source of capacity: it needs 32 GB RAM or a listed NVIDIA card, its dashboard says no official swarms are running, and its reward unit is a token allocation out of a 2 percent testnet pool with no published per-node formula. A third-party guide also records that renting a GPU to run a Gensyn node costs USD 65 to USD 300 per month. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- write-gated 32 GB
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | docs.gensyn.ai/testnet/rl-swarm/getting-started | quoted: requires a 64-bit arm64/x86 CPU with at least 32 GB RAM or a supported NVIDIA GPU (3090, 4090, 5090, A100, H100); a Hugging Face write token is required |
| 2026-10-22 | dashboard.gensyn.ai/ | quoted: 'There are no official swarms running right now. Please check back later'; the network reports 427,530 on-chain users |
| 2026-10-22 | docs.gensyn.ai/testnet | public testnet launched March 2025; the network tracks participation and makes payments, it does not rent capacity to consumers |
| 2026-10-22 | depinrun.com/guides/gensyn-node-operator-guide | third-party operator guide states 'No compute-provider earnings have been published for Gensyn mainnet' and that testnet rewards were 'relative and pool-based' |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "decentralized-training-network","free_tier_kind": null,"shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": 32,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field