UTC · cheapest GPU-hour on earth right now: Seoul · yours: N. California

The price of compute, right now.

Maksa runs patient AI work on the cheapest unsold GPU hours on earth, on a deadline, with a receipt. Usually 40% below what you pay today.

Run a proof →See today's prices

moose-10mk-hsts5-g5

Qwen3 235B-A22B · 61.8M tokens · 24h

delivered6h 37m early

ran inIceland · B200

would have cost$33.25

cost$19.53

saved41.3%

d27cbd6c8773…verify

02 · the thesis

It's always off‑peak somewhere.

When it's 5pm in Virginia it's midnight in Cape Town.

Chips sit idle on the night side of the planet while you pay rush-hour prices on the day side.

Work that can wait an hour should run where it's cheapest, and we move it there.

Fig. 1

The planet at 19:18 UTC: twenty regions, one price each.

A job submitted this second goes to Seoul at $2.09 a GPU-hour. Sort by anything. The canvas above draws from these same rows.

GPU-hour price by region, generated 2026-11-05T19:18:05.000Z. Sorted by price.

SELSeoulrouting	04:18	$2.09	58	118 ms
SYDSydney	06:18	$2.11	53	155 ms
TYOTokyo	04:18	$2.18	61	108 ms
AUHAbu Dhabi	23:18	$2.19	53	170 ms
SINSingapore	03:18	$2.25	83	176 ms
FINFinland	21:18	$2.27	53	114 ms
BOMMumbai	00:48	$2.29	63	175 ms
OREOregon	11:18	$2.33	40	13 ms
OSLOslo	20:18	$2.33	49	109 ms
TEXTexas	13:18	$2.44	64	32 ms
ICEIceland	19:18	$2.44	46	88 ms
NCAN. Californiayou	11:18	$2.48	95	3 ms
IOWIowa	13:18	$2.60	57	31 ms
QUEQuébec	14:18	$2.64	49	54 ms
CPTCape Town	21:18	$2.65	102	213 ms
SCLSantiago	16:18	$2.73	85	124 ms
VIRN. Virginia	14:18	$2.77	103	52 ms
DUBDublin	19:18	$2.82	161	107 ms
FRAFrankfurt	20:18	$2.91	139	119 ms
SAOSão Paulo	16:18	$2.99	95	136 ms

03 · the proof

Price it before you trust it.

Three inputs. The quote is computed in your browser from the same rules that price every receipt below.

maksa · proof quoteQ-4DD8CA

priced 05 Nov 19:18 UTC · mock pricing rules v1

modelLlama 3.3 70B

tokens50,000,000

deadline24h · by 06 Nov 19:18 UTC

Our price$18.22

per million tokens$0.364

runs inIceland · 1 B200

starts06 Nov 00:00 UTC

finishes06 Nov 10:00 UTC · 9h 18m early

Same job, three cheapest listed providers, on-demand

Pallas Compute · Abu Dhabi · $5.61/hr$32.40

Basalt Compute · Finland · $5.70/hr$32.92

Tidewater · Oslo · $5.92/hr$34.18

You save$14.70 · 44.7%

Run this for free50M tokens on us →

04 · the receipts

Every job ends with a receipt.

Jobs this week
Tokens this week
Customers saved

1 Every field on a receipt is hashed on its own; the field hashes are hashed into the root printed under the barcode.
2 Verify recomputes all of them in your browser from what is printed. Nothing leaves the page.
3 Change one character and the verifier names the field. Press Tamper on any receipt and try.

05 · how it works

Three lines.

client → cheapest chips → your bucket

You point your client at us and add a deadline.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.maksa.com/v1",    api_key=os.environ["MAKSA_KEY"],
)

batch = client.batches.create(
    input_file_id=f.id, endpoint="/v1/chat/completions",
    extra_body={"deadline": "24h"},)

We buy the cheapest chips that still meet it and pack them full.

utilisation 92% · next free hour in Seoul

You get the outputs in your bucket and a receipt; we delete our copy.

$ aws s3 ls s3://your-bucket/maksa/mk-hsts5-g5/

outputs-00000.jsonl 1.9 GB

outputs-00001.jsonl 1.9 GB

outputs-00002.jsonl 1.1 GB

receipt.json 2.4 KB

$ maksa jobs show mk-hsts5-g5

our copy: s3://maksa-staging/mk-hsts5-g5

deleted · receipt kept

06 · lock

Fix the price for twelve months.

GPU rental rates rose 40% this year. Lock yours, or cap it.

H100-hour, routed · history + forwardindicative · 2026-11-05

Fixed · 12 mo

$0.487

per million tokens

Cap · 3.1% premium

$0.530

you pay spot below it

Today, routed

$0.392

Month 12 forward

$0.549

Monthly, fixed

$14,616

Talk to us about Lock →

07 · trust

Four numbers, updated as they change.

as of 19:18:05 UTC

Deadlines met this month: 5,846 of 5,846 · target 100%
Incidents this quarter: last: 2026-10-14 · postmortem
Reserve balance: prepaid, segregated, no debt
SOC 2: Type I issued; Type II window 2026-10 → 2027-03

Your data goes to your bucket and nowhere else. One line to leave.

$ maksa exit --export s3://your-bucket/maksa --refund-balance

Trust Exit instructions Verifier source Repos

08 · the whale door

Running more than a billion tokens a day?

A named engineer in your Slack within the hour, dedicated nodes on your own weights, and a receipt on every job.

Shared channel · reply within the hour · no forms