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.
| Resource | You pay | Host earns | Hyperscaler | Billed on |
|---|
| Object storageErasure-coded across at least three devices | $0.0060 | $0.0051 | $0.023 | GB-month |
| EgressReading your own data back out | free | — | $0.090 | GB |
| ComputeA container on someone’s spare cores | $0.014 | $0.012 | $0.041 | GB-hour |
| AI inferenceSmall open models, served from idle laptops | $0.180 | $0.153 | $0.600 | 1M tokens |
| EmbeddingsCross-checked across independent operators | $0.020 | $0.017 | $0.130 | 1M 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.