Pricing

Your own cloud is free. The network has a price list.

Running services on hardware you own costs nothing, forever. Money only changes hands when someone borrows a stranger's laptop — and you can read both sides of that trade below.

Your own devices
$0
Any number of laptops, every service, Captain included. No tier, no seat, no trial.
Borrowing from the network
Metered
Per GB-month, GB-hour and token. No egress charge — ever. Stop any time.
Our cut
15%
Of what others pay to rent your spare capacity. You keep the other 85% — no cap, no minimum.
Before any of that

Subscriptions you can cancel on day one.

$527.76
a year, if you run all four
PhotosiCloud+ 200 GB$2.99$0.002 always-on · 200 GB
DriveDropbox Plus$11.99$0.002 always-on · 400 GB
ChatChatGPT Plus$20.00$0.001 device · 16 GB
BackupBackblaze Personal$9.00$0.003 devices · 1 always-on
These run on hardware you already own, so there is no rate — the price list below only applies when you borrow from someone else's pool.
The price list

Both sides of every rate, in public.

Most marketplaces publish what you pay and hide what the supplier gets. Here they sit in the same row. Host earns is a flat 85% of what the buyer pays.

ResourceYou payHost earnsHyperscalerBilled on
Object storageErasure-coded across at least three devices$0.0060$0.0051$0.023GB-month
EgressReading your own data back outfree$0.090GB
ComputeA container on someone’s spare cores$0.014$0.012$0.041GB-hour
AI inferenceSmall open models, served from idle laptops$0.180$0.153$0.6001M tokens
EmbeddingsCross-checked across independent operators$0.020$0.017$0.1301M tokens
Measured on both sides and reconciled nightly.Settled daily · withdraw with no fee over $10.Our cut: a flat 15% of the buyer's price — you keep 85%. No cap, no minimum.Hyperscaler column: illustrative us-east list prices, July 2026.
Work it out

What your idle laptops would pay you.

Storage you lend600 GB
Tokens you serve12M / mo
Compute hours you give up240 GB-hrs
Assumes the machines are awake and genuinely idle for those hours. Quiet hours and your CPU ceiling reduce it.
You would earn, after our cut
$7.75per month
Storage lent600 GB-mo$3.06
Inference served12M tokens$1.84
Compute given up240 GB-hrs$2.86
We took $1.37 of $9.12 — a flat 15%. No cap, no minimum. Paid only for capacity actually consumed.
Start earning from idle hours

Start free. Stay free unless you borrow.

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