joule

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joule Compute

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github.com/f00-sh/joule · cloud VM · compute/joule · JSON · compare

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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	anonymous not published
Limits	write-gated Access requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware the client does not have. A CPU-only node is documented as 'lab only'. source Access requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware the client does not have. A CPU-only node is documented as 'lab only'.
Binding	write-gated Access requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware the client does not have. A CPU-only node is documented as 'lab only'.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	None. The exchange rate is compute for compute, so a client with no compute has nothing to trade.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded because it is the cleanest statement of a pattern that recurs across this class: a pool that is free in dollars but priced in donated compute. Gensyn does the same with testnet points, and Dreamify does it with somebody else's 4090s. For a client with no hardware, 'no cash buy-in' is not the same as 'reachable', and this record stops the next session from mistaking one for the other.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
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)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "community-compute-pool",
  "free_tier_kind": "contribution-earned",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

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