Pricing & AXGT
AxonOS is pay-as-you-go. You buy prepaid credits measured in minutes of desktop time and spend them only while a session is running. No subscription, no minimum commitment.
Pay with ETH. Save with AXGT.
How you're charged
⏱️Credits are minutes
Top up an amount, get a number of minutes. Unused minutes don't expire.
💓Billed per heartbeat
Active sessions deduct the time you actually use — spin down and the clock stops.
⚡Bigger GPU, faster burn
Cost scales with the GPU profile: minutes × GPU count.
GPU profile burn rates
| Profile | GPUs | Credit burn |
|---|---|---|
| Small | 1 | 1× |
| Medium | 2 | 2× |
| Large | 4 | 4× |
| Max | 8 | 8× |
A Small session spends 1 minute of credit per wall-clock minute; a Max session spends 8. See Launch a GPU session.
Ways to pay
| Currency | Notes |
|---|---|
| ETH | AXGT holder tiers can discount the server-quoted ETH amount. |
| USDC | A Base stablecoin rail; supported hosted flows can apply the same holder tiers. |
| AXGT | Hosted option valued with the current protected server-side quote plus a configured flat bonus. |
How to top up, step by step: Buy compute credits.
AXGT holder discounts
For supported ETH and USDC flows, AxonOS reads your wallet's AXGT balance and applies a discount based on your tier. You keep your AXGT. Direct AXGT payments do not stack a holder tier on top of their flat payment bonus.
| Tier | AXGT held | Discount on ETH price |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |
Hold AXGT for a tier on supported ETH/USDC quotes, or pay in AXGT for the operator's flat direct-payment bonus. The hosted service currently enables direct AXGT payments with a +25% bonus; availability and promotions can change.
How the AXGT quote is protected
When dynamic pricing is enabled, the server normally refreshes prices every five minutes. AXGT is
quoted from a configurable 30-minute Uniswap v3 AXGT/WETH TWAP multiplied by Chainlink ETH/USD. If
the pool does not yet have enough observation history, the server can use the dashboard-compatible
Uniswap slot0 spot quote only when CoinGecko independently agrees within the configured limit.
Large TWAP moves require the same confirmation.
If confirmation is missing or disagrees, AxonOS retains its last trusted cached quote. CoinGecko is also the fallback when no usable on-chain quote exists, and stale Chainlink data is rejected. The server never accepts a client-reported market price. This is a current server-side quote, not an instantaneous or guaranteed execution price.
Storage costs
A persistent home volume incurs a small charge while you're offline (about 0.05 minutes per GB per hour), deducted from your balance. Active sessions are billed for compute, not storage. Details and the data-retention policy: Files & persistent storage.
The AXGT token
| Network | Ethereum mainnet |
| Contract | 0x6112C3509A8a787df576028450FebB3786A2274d |
| Standard | ERC-20 |
| Explorer | etherscan.io |
Minimums, resulting credits, estimated runtime, and active promotions are shown in the top-up panel at app.axonos.io and are operator-configurable. For the underlying economic model and additional rails, see Payment Rails & Tokenomics.