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- Free allowance
- Free access is real but is earned by contributing hardware.
- 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
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedAccess requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware a user does not have. A CPU-only node is documented as 'lab only'.
- Evidence
- documented2 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 | Free access is real but is earned by contributing hardware. Quoted: 'Access to the OpenAI-compatible API is earned only by contributing compute - free on the public pool (no cash).' Quoted: 'No live contribution / balance => no access.' The economy is quoted as millijoules minted from 'verified contribution (heartbeats, shards, challenges)', scaled by square root of VRAM with a tenure boost. unit none; metered on wall-clock; contribution-earned |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) Access requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware a user does not have. A CPU-only node is documented as 'lab only'. source
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| Identity | anonymous not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None. The exchange rate is compute for compute, so a user with no compute to offer has nothing to trade. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Gensyn does the same with testnet points, and Dreamify does it with somebody else's 4090s. Without owned hardware, 'no cash buy-in' is not the same as 'reachable'. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | github.com/f00-sh/joule | quoted: 'Access to the OpenAI-compatible API is earned only by contributing compute - free on the public pool (no cash)'; 'No live contribution / balance => no access'; CPU 'works for lab only' |
| 2026-10-22 | joule.f00.sh/ | quoted: '100% free - no money - peer-seeded - website only'; 'You bring the watts'; millijoules are 'a sealed ledger of what you give in' |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "community-compute-pool","free_tier_kind": "contribution-earned","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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