Buy compute credits
AxonOS access is prepaid. You buy credits — denominated in minutes of desktop time — and spend them by running GPU sessions. There's no subscription and no free trial; you simply top up when you need more time.
Topping up
After you've connected your wallet and the balance is 0 or too low, the wallet card switches to the payment panel automatically. You can also open it at any time.
Choose a currency and review the rate
The panel shows ETH, USDC, and AXGT rows (which are enabled depends on the operator config). Each row shows the minimum deposit and the desktop minutes you'll receive, plus your live AXGT balance and your discount tier.
Click 'Send min ETH' (or USDC / AXGT)
Clicking the send button in the row triggers a wallet transaction for exactly the minimum amount. Approve it in your wallet. The payment goes to the AxonOS revenue wallet.
Click 'Credit deposit' to verify
Once your wallet confirms the transaction, click Credit deposit (or the button auto-polls) and AxonOS verifies it on-chain. Your balance updates in place once 6 confirmations are reached.
If you transferred funds directly to the revenue wallet, paste the transaction hash into the verification field and click Credit deposit — AxonOS credits it the same way.
Payment options
💎ETH
The primary rail. Holding AXGT applies a discount to the ETH price (see below).
💵USDC
A fixed-$1 stablecoin option, verified by transaction hash. No holder discount.
🪙AXGT
Pay directly in AXGT and get credited at live USD value plus a bonus — often the best value.
Save with AXGT
You don't need to pay in AXGT to benefit from it. When you pay in ETH, AxonOS checks your wallet's AXGT balance and applies a discount tier to the price:
| Tier | AXGT held | Discount |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 0 | 0 – 99 | 0% |
| Tier 1 | 100 – 999 | 5% |
| Tier 2 | 1,000 – 9,999 | 10% |
| Tier 3 | 10,000 – 99,999 | 15% |
| Tier 4 | 100,000+ | 25% |
Pay with ETH. Save with AXGT.
See Pricing & AXGT for the full breakdown and Payment Rails & Tokenomics for the economic model.
How crediting works
When you deposit, AxonOS verifies everything on-chain before crediting — it never trusts a client-reported amount:
- Confirms the transaction has enough block confirmations.
- Checks the recipient is the AxonOS revenue wallet and reads the exact amount from the on-chain transfer event.
- For ETH, re-reads your AXGT balance to resolve your discount tier.
- Credits the corresponding minutes to your balance and records the deposit (each transaction is credited at most once).
While a transaction is still confirming, the page shows it as pending and keeps polling — you don't need to do anything.
Your balance
- Credits are minutes and they don't expire — unused credit persists between sessions.
- Running a session deducts minutes via a heartbeat while it's active (larger GPU profiles burn faster — see Launch a GPU session).
- When you run low, the desktop warns you; top up again to keep going.
If you keep a persistent volume, a small storage charge accrues against your balance even when no session is running. Learn how this works in Files & persistent storage.