--- title: "Terms of service | PowerGPU" description: "The PowerGPU terms of service: accounts, credits and crypto payments, service modes, acceptable use, reservations, liability and termination — in plain language." url: https://powergpu.ai/legal/terms last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-09-14 site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) --- Legal · Terms of service # Terms of service Written to be read. Section titles are honest summaries; where a clause is unusual for a cloud provider (crypto-only payment, privacy defaults), it is called out rather than buried. - Effective **2026-09-03** - Version **1.0** - Reading time **4 min** In plain language - You prepay in crypto; usage draws the balance down per second. Unused credits never expire and are refundable in the original coin on request. - On-demand and reserved capacity is guaranteed; interruptible capacity can be paused (never destroyed) — that is what buys its 50% discount. - Your data, models and outputs stay yours. Destroy = cryptographic erasure. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot lose. - No mining, no attacks, no illegal content. Serious abuse is stopped first; everything else gets 48 hours to talk. - Our liability is capped at what you paid us in the last three months (or $100). Notices go through a console ticket. This summary helps you read the document; the numbered sections below are the binding text. ## 1 · Who we are, what this covers "PowerGPU", "we" and "us" mean the operator of powergpu.ai and cloud.powergpu.ai (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](https://powergpu.ai/legal/aup) (part of these terms) and the [Privacy Policy](https://powergpu.ai/legal/privacy). 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](https://powergpu.ai/legal/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](https://powergpu.ai/legal/sla) (99.9% monthly, remedied in credits). Interruptible capacity, by design, carries none. Maintenance windows are announced on [/status](https://powergpu.ai/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](https://powergpu.ai/legal/privacy). ## 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](https://cloud.powergpu.ai/app/support) — 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. Questions about this document? Legal questions go through the same authenticated channel as everything else — a support ticket in the console, answered by a human. [Open a ticket](https://cloud.powergpu.ai/app/support) Key facts - Crypto only · no card · no KYC - No IP retention, no trackers - Per-second billing, credits never expire - 99.9% SLA, remedied in credits --- *About PowerGPU:* PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 80 NVIDIA GPU models — from the RTX A2000 at $0.024/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.428/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.powergpu.ai) or the REST API. Source: https://powergpu.ai/legal/terms · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt