1 · Who we are, what this covers
"PowerGPU", "we" and "us" mean the operator of powergpu.io and cloud.powergpu.io (the "Service") — rental of GPU compute, storage and network by the second. Creating an account or using the Service means you accept these terms, the Acceptable Use Policy (part of these terms) and the Privacy Policy. If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm you may bind it.
2 · Accounts
- One human per account; you are responsible for what happens under your credentials and API keys.
- Keep the email reachable — it is our only channel for service notices (balance exhaustion, interruptions, ticket answers).
- You must be at least 18 and not barred from receiving services under applicable sanctions law. We may refuse or close accounts used to evade previous enforcement.
3 · Credits & payment (crypto only)
- The Service is prepaid: you top up a USD-denominated credit balance using the supported cryptocurrencies. We never ask for card or bank details — a request for them is not from us.
- Credits are valued at the USD amount selected at top-up; the coin conversion is fixed by the payment window shown before you send. Network fees are yours; confirmation times are the network's.
- Credits do not expire. Unused credits are refundable on request in the original coin at the USD value remaining, minus network fees, except credits granted by us as goodwill.
- Usage draws the balance down per second as metered by the platform. Our metering is authoritative; obvious metering errors will be corrected in your favour when found.
- At zero balance we stop (never destroy) running instances; storage may draw the balance slightly negative until settled.
4 · The service modes
- On-demand — capacity is yours from successful deploy until you stop or destroy it, at the price shown at deploy.
- Interruptible — half the on-demand rate; we may pause (stop) the instance when capacity is required, with the recovery behaviour described in the docs. Interruption is not a fault.
- Reserved — committed capacity for an agreed term and rate; commitments bill for the term whether used or not and are non-cancellable, though upgradeable.
- Prices for new deployments follow the published sheet, which changes with the weekly market re-check. Running instances keep their deploy-time price.
5 · Your content
- What you run and store stays yours. We claim no rights over your data, models or outputs.
- We access instance contents only when strictly necessary to operate the Service, at your request (support), or when the AUP compels investigation — and we log such access internally.
- Destroying an instance or volume cryptographically erases it. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot lose; per-second infrastructure is designed to be disposable.
6 · Acceptable use
The AUP is short and enforced: illegal content and attacks are banned, abuse that endangers the platform or other customers is stopped first and discussed second. Cryptocurrency mining is not permitted — the economics only work by abusing interruptible capacity, so we exclude it for everyone.
7 · Availability
On-demand and reserved capacity carry the SLA (99.9% monthly, remedied in credits). Interruptible capacity, by design, carries none. Maintenance windows are announced on /status.
8 · Liability
- The Service is provided "as is"; to the maximum extent the law allows, our aggregate liability for any claim is capped at the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us in the three months before the event.
- We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profits, lost models, lost training time — nor for the behaviour of cryptocurrency networks.
- Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
9 · Suspension & termination
- You can leave any time: destroy resources, request a refund of remaining credits, done.
- We may suspend resources immediately for AUP violations, security emergencies or legal compulsion, and will say why unless legally prevented.
- Closed-account data follows the retention rules in the privacy policy.
10 · Changes, law, contact
- Material changes to these terms are announced in-console 14 days ahead; continued use is acceptance.
- These terms are governed by the law of the operator's place of establishment, excluding conflict rules; disputes go to the courts there unless mandatory consumer law says otherwise.
- All notices to us: a ticket in the console support desk — the authenticated channel is the official one.
Version 1.0, effective 2026-09-03. Material changes are announced in-console 14 days ahead; previous versions are available on request through a support ticket.