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Bittensor Compute

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www.bittensor.com/docs/tx/register-subnet · GPU cloud · compute/bittensor · JSON · compare

Free tier	Permissionless GPU network of 128 subnets where a subnet slot is bought by burning TAO: the cost is 'potentially thousands of TAO', doubles after each registration, decays linearly, and 'becomes the new subnet's initial TAO pool reserve, a sunk cost, not a refundable deposit'. Miner registration is separate and clamped between 0.0005 TAO and 100 TAO per subnet. unit none; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	card not published
Limits	write-gated There is no free lane: a subnet slot costs 605.7 TAO at the 2026-10-22 chain state, and mining needs a GPU for a user does not own, so capital fails before identity does. source There is no free lane: a subnet slot costs 605.7 TAO at the 2026-10-22 chain state, and mining needs a GPU for a user does not own, so capital fails before identity does.
Binding	write-gated There is no free lane: a subnet slot costs 605.7 TAO at the 2026-10-22 chain state, and mining needs a GPU for a user does not own, so capital fails before identity does.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	A rented GPU pointed at an uncontested subnet is the only route for a client with no hardware: the burn is then 0.0005 TAO, but emission depends on that subnet's incentive mechanism, which varies per subnet and is not published in one place.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	605.7 TAO at USD 256.94 is USD 155,629 for one subnet slot; the maximum miner burn of 100 TAO is USD 25,694 on the most contested subnet. The registration cost is a third-party chain read rather than a vendor page, so the dollar figure rests on a dashboard plus a price quote. Per-subnet emission rates were not read.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.bittensor.com/docs/tx/register-subnet	registration cost taken from the coldkey, doubles per registration, decays linearly, becomes the subnet's initial TAO pool reserve as a sunk cost
2026-10-22	taostats.io/docs/concepts/subnets/subnet-registration	cost is demand-based, 4-day window between registrations, new subnets get 4 months immunity from deregistration
2026-10-22	chainbuying.netlify.app/	third-party chain read at block 9,339,042: registration cost now 605.7 TAO, last paid 434.7 TAO on SN103 on 20 Oct 2026
2026-10-22	api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bittensor&vs_curre	TAO USD 256.94
2026-10-22	www.bittensor.com/docs/guides/mining/burn	miner burn clamped between min_burn 500,000 rao (0.0005 TAO) and max_burn 100 TAO, per subnet

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated