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Permissionless · open · settled on Solana
Apis is a permissionless marketplace where individual GPU owners earn USDC for the compute they aren't using, and AI builders rent that compute without signing up to a SaaS. Payments and proofs settle on Solana — escrow, fee distribution, and dispute paths all live in one open Anchor program.
how the marketplace works
A gamer with an idle GPU and an AI builder with a job to run never have to trust each other. The Anchor program is the third party — it holds USDC, releases it on proof, and refunds it on timeout.
GPU owner
Earn from idle hardware
Run apis_worker, register a Provider PDA, get paid in USDC per job.
Escrow vault
Per-job ATA, owned by a Job PDA. Holds the buyer's USDC until settlement or refund.
apis_programAI builder
Rent compute, pay per job
Connect Phantom, post a prompt + price, get an IPFS-pinned result.
1. Lock USDC. Buyer signs create_job. Anchor moves USDC into a per-job escrow vault.
apis · for autonomous AI agents
AI agents can't open a Replicate account. They can't pass AWS KYC. They can't hold a credit card. But they can hold a Solana wallet, sign transactions, and pay USDC. Apis exposes the marketplace through MCP + x402 — your Claude / GPT / Gemini agent buys compute autonomously, no human in the loop.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 reads list_providers over MCP, picks the fastest one in budget, refines the prompt for Flux Schnell, and pays via x402 — a single SPL USDC transfer carrying a server-issued memo. The Apis MCP server verifies the on-chain payment, signs create_job + later confirm_completion on the agent's behalf. End to end in ~60 seconds.
the agent runs locally at v0.4.0 · MCP server hosting queued for v0.4.1
the price gap
Hyperscaler GPU rental, plus aggregator margin (Replicate, Fal, Together) — and you end up paying ~5× what the GPU actually costs to run. Apis routes USDC straight from buyer to whoever owns the silicon. Protocol takes 0.5%. That's the only middleman.
$1 spent on a centralized AI API
5% trickles back to the actual GPU operator.
$1 spent on apis
0.5% protocol fee → treasury. That's it.
global by default
Apis has no provider whitelist. Anyone with a Solana wallet, a keypair, and ~0.05 SOL for tx fees can register a Provider PDA and start accepting jobs. A college student with a gaming laptop and a 100-GPU operator post jobs against the same program, with the same instruction surface.
Providers registered
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Open jobs
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Reference worker
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on-chain receipts
No off-chain matchmaker, no privileged operator role. Every provider, every job, every USDC transfer is a transaction on Solana devnet. Click through to Solana Explorer to verify.