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Free allowance
Peer-to-peer compute priced by each provider per CPU-hour; mainnet requestors pay in GLM plus gas.
Verdict
paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost
no price stated
Identity
cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit
write-gatedReal capacity requires GLM on mainnet plus gas, which requires a purchase; the free testnet token carries no capacity guarantee.
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 tierPeer-to-peer compute priced by each provider per CPU-hour; mainnet requestors pay in GLM plus gas. The only free lane is the testnet: tGLM is 'test currency that you can obtain for free to test your requestor node. These tokens have no real value.' GLM was USD 0.110439 on 2026-10-22.
unit hours; metered on wall-clock; testnet-faucet
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • write-gated (binding) Real capacity requires GLM on mainnet plus gas, which requires a purchase; the free testnet token carries no capacity guarantee. source
Identitycard not published
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withAt GLM USD 0.1104, a provider asking 0.1 GLM per CPU-hour costs about USD 0.011 per CPU-hour, below most list prices; the chain breaks on gas per agreement and on the thin provider market.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesA third-party report says the testnet marketplace shows 0 active offers, which could not be confirmed because the page is rendered in JavaScript. A measured CPU-hour price would need a funded mainnet requestor node.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
Evidence 4
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22docs.golem.network/docs/golem/overview/requestor-faqtGLM is free test currency with no real value; GLM is the tradeable token
2026-10-22docs.golem.network/docs/golem/overviewtestnet tokens come from a faucet and 'It is free, but you cannot expect capacity and performance'; mainnet needs GLM plus gas
2026-10-22api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=golem&vs_currencieGLM USD 0.110439
2026-10-22marketplace.golem.network/marketplace page read 200; offers render client-side, so the live offer count was not readable from the extracted text
More fields 1
facets{"class": "depin-marketplace","free_tier_kind": "testnet-faucet","shape": null}
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