GPUte
GPUtePre-launch conceptCredits built on b017

No account, no card. Agents pay for their own compute.

Give an agent a keypair and a spending cap. It provisions GPUs, runs the job and settles with the host peer to peer in compute credits it can verify itself — and stops the moment it hits the cap.

For agents
job
train-model
hardware
h100 · 80 GB
status
RUNNING
elapsed
00:04:12
rate
40 credits / s
time limit
02:00:00
cap
288,000
spent10,080
Illustration. The rate is an example; prices are not set.

How it works

Three steps from script to result

  1. Get credits

    Buy compute credits by card or with BSV. At launch credits are entries in GPUte's ledger; from phase 2 each credit is a b017 token on Bitcoin SV, the token protocol stewarded by the BOLT Association, and traces back to GPUte's published issuer key.

  2. Submit a job

    Describe the job once, from the command line or from a coding agent: gpute deploy run.sh. GPUte picks a machine, sets up the environment and streams the logs.

  3. Pay for running seconds

    The job's time limit sets the cap, which is the most the job can cost. You transfer a token worth the cap when the job starts. When it ends, the system keeps payment for the seconds run and returns the rest automatically. Queueing and setup are free.

For agents

Let your agents scale themselves

From phase 2 an agent is a first-class customer: it holds credits and spends them without a person. This describes the planned design, not yet live.

Sign up with a key, not a form
An agent makes a keypair, holds its own credits and authorises every job by signing it. No dashboard, no card on file, no human in the loop.
The cap is the contract
Every job carries a hard credit cap. An agent can fan out as wide as it likes, up to the cap you set, metered by the second, and is cut off there — an early finish costs less.
Pay peer to peer, verify it yourself
Credits are b017 tokens on Bitcoin SV. The agent pays the host directly and confirms the payment itself with SPV — block headers and a Merkle proof — with nothing central holding the balance.
One tool call to grow
gpute deploy is an MCP tool, so an agent scales out by calling it, not by clicking — under the same cap and metering as a person.

What is different

Built for short, bursty jobs

The comparisons below come from each service's public documentation in October 2026. The GPUte lines describe the planned design.

Settled and refunded on-chain

Today
C3 takes card top-ups from £10 and reserves enough credit to cover a job's full time limit before it starts.
GPUte
From phase 2, the time limit is still the cap, and you hand it over as a token when the job starts. A single on-chain settlement at the end pays for the seconds used and returns the remainder, with no action from you. The token's own script enforces the split: once the amount is committed, neither the payment nor your refund can be changed. If a job is never settled, the full amount returns to you when the token expires.

Two kinds of supply

Today
C3 routes jobs only to rented clouds. Vast.ai lists only independent hosts, and you manage the container yourself.
GPUte
One scheduler over both: a verified cloud tier for sensitive work and a cheaper community tier for everything else.

Metering finer than money

Today
Card billing rounds to the penny, and on-chain payments in BSV cannot go below one satoshi.
GPUte
From phase 2, a b017 credit carries a 16-byte balance, so one unit can be priced below a satoshi and a cheap CPU-second still has an exact cost.

For GPU owners

Put idle GPUs to work

The community tier opens by invitation first, then to anyone once verification is in place.

One agent to install
It registers the GPU, benchmarks it and pulls jobs over an outbound connection, so it works behind a home router.
You set the floor
Name the lowest price you will run for. The scheduler sends work only at or above it.
Paid after the job checks out
Earnings are released once a job passes verification, in ordinary money or BSV.
Reputation earns more work
Uptime and verified results raise a host's score, and higher scores are routed more jobs.

Where this stands. GPUte is a concept. No service is live, prices are not set, no credits have been issued and the settlement token has not been written. The legal treatment of the credit token still needs professional review before any sale.

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