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Spheron Compute

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docs.spheron.ai/getting-started/ · GPU cloud · compute/spheron · JSON · compare

Free tier	Decentralized GPU marketplace matched through EigenLayer AVS bids, with pay-per-second billing and no free allowance: the first step after signup is to add credits, 'minimum $15, maximum $5,000 per transaction', by card or USDC. An RTX 4090 is about USD 0.52 per hour. 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 signup by Google, GitHub or email, then a deposit before anything runs: the billing step states 'Add initial credits (minimum $15, maximum $5,000 per transaction)' and 'Minimum deposit is $15', paid by card or USDC/USDT. The USD 15 is a minimum deposit of real money, not an authorisation hold, and there is no trial credit. Whether debit or prepaid cards are accepted is not stated
Limits	write-gated Nothing runs before a deposit of at least USD 15 clears; there is no trial credit, so the first gate is money rather than identity. source Nothing runs before a deposit of at least USD 15 clears; there is no trial credit, so the first gate is money rather than identity.
Binding	write-gated Nothing runs before a deposit of at least USD 15 clears; there is no trial credit, so the first gate is money rather than identity.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	USD 15 at USD 0.52 per hour is about 28 hours of one RTX 4090, so a single minimum deposit funds a week of evening experiments; the deposit is prepaid balance, not a credit grant.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The site publishes no free credit; a third-party blog mentions a trial signup button, which the current flow does not show. On-chain settlement is described in the provider blog, not in the deployment docs, so the token side of the marketplace was not verified.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	docs.spheron.ai/getting-started/	billing step: payment by card or USDC/USDT, 'Add initial credits (minimum $15, maximum $5,000 per transaction)', 'Minimum deposit is $15', RTX 4090 about USD 0.52/hour
2026-10-22	www.spheron.network/pricing	live rates across H100, H200, B200, B300, A100, GH200, L40S, RTX 5090 and RTX 4090, per-minute billing, no commitments
2026-10-22	app.spheron.ai/signup	48 GPU configurations listed, 6 unavailable at read time, signup by Google, GitHub or email

More fields (1)

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   "gpu_count": 1
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

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