Quick answer
What does the GPUwithCrypto acceptable use policy forbid?
GPUwithCrypto GPUs are for ordinary compute work such as training, fine-tuning, inference and rendering. In short: No cryptocurrency mining, no password or hash cracking, no attacks on other systems (DDoS, scanning, exploitation), no malware, no spam, no child sexual abuse material, no intimate or deceptive images of real people without their consent, no weapons development and no work for sanctioned people or companies. Paying in crypto with no KYC changes none of these rules.
1. Who does this policy apply to?
Every account holder, and anyone who uses an instance, an SSH key or an API key of that account. The account holder is responsible for what runs on the account's instances, whoever started them.
2. What are rented GPUs meant for?
Ordinary compute work: training and fine-tuning models, serving them for inference, generating images and video, rendering, scientific computing, data processing and research. You decide what to run, and you are responsible for it, including the data you load and the results you publish.
3. Which uses are never allowed?
The rule in one sentence: No cryptocurrency mining, no password or hash cracking, no attacks on other systems (DDoS, scanning, exploitation), no malware, no spam, no child sexual abuse material, no intimate or deceptive images of real people without their consent, no weapons development and no work for sanctioned people or companies. Each item means the following.
- Cryptocurrency mining. Mining any coin or token, or running a mining client in a container, a notebook or a background process, even for a test or a few minutes.
- Password or hash cracking. Recovering passwords, keys or other secrets from hashes or by brute force, whatever the tool and whoever owns the data.
- Attacks on other systems. Denial-of-service traffic, network or vulnerability scanning, exploiting vulnerabilities, and brute-force logins against systems outside your instance.
- Malware. Writing, building, testing, hosting or spreading malicious software, including ransomware, botnet control servers and phishing kits.
- Spam. Sending bulk unsolicited messages, or producing content or accounts for that purpose.
- Child sexual abuse material. Creating, storing, sharing or training on any sexual content involving minors, including drawn, synthetic or AI-generated content. It is reported to the authorities.
- Images of real people without consent. Intimate or sexual images of a real person, and deceptive images or video that put a real person in a scene that never happened, unless that person has agreed.
- Weapons development. Designing, developing or producing weapons, including help with biological, chemical, nuclear or radiological weapons, and training or running AI models for weapons or military-intelligence uses.
- Work for sanctioned parties. Using the service for, or on behalf of, a person or company on a sanctions list or an export-control restricted-party list, or a company owned or controlled by one.
Anything illegal where you are, or where the service operates, is not allowed either, even if this list does not name it.
4. Which countries are excluded?
Not available to people or companies in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, Yemen or Western Sahara, or in the occupied regions of Ukraine. Accounts and payments linked to these places are refused or closed.
Using a VPN, a proxy or another person's account to reach the service from an excluded place breaks this policy. So does giving people in those places access to your instances.
5. How are payments screened?
Incoming payments are checked against public sanctions lists of blockchain addresses; a payment from a listed address is not credited. Where the law requires it, such funds are held and reported rather than returned. We do not ask for ID to do this: the check is made on the blockchain address the payment comes from.
6. Do model and software licences still apply?
Yes, and they remain your responsibility. Open models such as Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen or Flux each come with their own licence, and some add a use policy or limits on commercial use. The same goes for datasets, Docker images and software you run.
GPUwithCrypto rents the GPU; it does not grant, check or extend any licence. A use that a model's licence forbids is not made allowed by running it on a rented GPU.
7. How is abuse reported and handled?
Reports go to [email protected]. An instance that breaks the acceptable use policy is stopped and the hours it used are not refunded; child sexual abuse material is reported to the authorities.
A useful report gives the instance's IP address, the date and time in UTC, the kind of abuse and the evidence you can share, such as log lines or message headers. Never attach child sexual abuse material to a report: describe it and say where it is.
We can also suspend or close an account that breaks this policy, as the terms explain. The contact page lists what to put in a report.
8. Does paying in crypto with no KYC change any of this?
No. No KYC is about how you pay and how little you need to send us. It does not change what you may run.
For billing we record each instance’s GPU model, host, start and stop time; these lines are kept for 30 days. We do not read the files on your disk. Account number, orders and top-ups stay while the account exists, then only as long as accounting law asks. Authorities receive records only when a law compels us. These records tie an instance to an account and a time, which is enough to act on a report. We do not need to read your disk to stop an instance that breaks these rules.
9. Can this policy change?
Yes. The date at the top of this page is the date of the version in force. A new rule applies from the day it is published here. Questions about whether a use is allowed go to [email protected] before you start the work.