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Free tier	The free tier is retired. Announcement quoted: 'we introduced an Early Access perk that provided 200 requests per day for free ... the program is no longer sustainable in its current form and will be discontinued', with the 200-request quota removed for TEE models on 27 February 2026 and 'fully retired' on 15 March 2026. The pricing page now lists pay-as-you-go with 'no subscription, no minimum' plus Plus at USD 10 per month and Pro at USD 20 per month. unit requests; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	anonymous nothing beyond a chosen username: 'You can sign up with Google or GitHub, or just pick a username and Chutes mints a fingerprint credential', and 'Connecting a Bittensor wallet is optional; you do not need one to use the platform'. No email, phone, card or ID is required on that path, which is why the kind is anonymous rather than email. No hold exists because no payment method is taken at signup; debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated, and paying for tokens afterwards is not described.
Limits	volume-quota The free 200-requests-per-day lane ended on 15 March 2026, so the first request now requires a funded balance; the cheapest lane left is pay-as-you-go. source The free 200-requests-per-day lane ended on 15 March 2026, so the first request now requires a funded balance; the cheapest lane left is pay-as-you-go.
Binding	volume-quota The free 200-requests-per-day lane ended on 15 March 2026, so the first request now requires a funded balance; the cheapest lane left is pay-as-you-go.
Interface	cli inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The wallet-optional signup is the useful fact: a username plus a fingerprint credential reaches a Bittensor-market inference endpoint with no wallet and no card, so once any balance exists this is the cheapest documented token rate found in this class for TEE-hosted inference.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	REFUTATION plus a documentation contradiction worth recording. Chutes' own starter guide says a Bittensor wallet is optional, while its GitHub README and its CLI reference still say 'you must have a Bittensor wallet and hotkey' for registration. The web signup path is the one that works without a wallet; the CLI path is the one that assumes one. A reader who follows the CLI first will wrongly conclude this is wallet-gated. The free tier, however, is genuinely gone, which is the fact that matters for a zero-budget client.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	chutes.ai/news/community-announcement-february	announcement dated 2026-02-27 states the 200 requests per day free perk is discontinued, TEE access removed at once, and the plan fully retired on 15 March 2026
2026-10-22	chutes.ai/pricing	current pricing lists pay-as-you-go with no minimum, Plus at USD 10 per month, Pro at USD 20 per month, and private deployment GPU rates from USD 1.80 per hour with a deploy fee starting at USD 5.40
2026-10-22	chutes.ai/docs/guides/starter-guide	quoted: 'You can sign up with Google or GitHub, or just pick a username and Chutes mints a fingerprint credential ... Connecting a Bittensor wallet is optional; you do not need one to use the platform'
2026-10-22	chutes.ai/llms.txt	catalog of 14 models as of 2026-10-22, all reporting confidential_compute true; cheapest Mistral-Nemo at USD 0.0245 per million input and USD 0.0978 per million output tokens

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.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