A serious AI machine costs more than one person wants to spend. Split between a few, it is affordable. We find you the others, buy the parts, design and build the machine, and host it in Bali — and the hardware is yours.
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None of them are savings. If price per token is the only thing you care about, use an API — we say so on every page of this site.
Every prompt, document and answer stays on a machine you own. 44% of organisations name data privacy as their top barrier to using AI at all. On your own box the question does not arise.
Open-weight models, your rules. Nothing is refused by someone else's policy and no model is quietly swapped underneath you between one week and the next.
One purchase, then a flat monthly split between you. Thinking harder about a problem costs nothing extra, which changes how people actually work.
Three years of renting leaves you with receipts. Three years of owning leaves you with hardware you can sell, upgrade, or move somewhere cheaper.
We are the middleman and the delivery company — between you and the other members, the Chinese hardware market, a working design, an assembled machine, and a place to run it. Take all five or take one.
| Service | Price | When you pay |
|---|---|---|
| MatchingWe form the group: the waitlist, matching people onto the same tier, introductions, and the group agreement that says who owns what. | 5% of project value | Once, when the group closes |
| Parts, from ChinaSourcing, buying and exporting the hardware through the China channels we already run. You see the cost. | Cost + 10% | Once, with the hardware invoices |
| Datacenter designHardware selection, power, cooling, network and the software stack — a build plan the group owns and can take anywhere. | From $2,000 | Once, when the design lands |
| AssemblyThe physical build, burn-in, and the model-serving stack installed and handed over working. | From $2,000 | Once, at handover |
| Hosting in BaliThe machine lives in our Bali facility. All-inclusive: electricity, internet, monitoring and control, and service. | From $900/month + $10 per member | Monthly, while it runs |
"From" prices are floors, not estimates — a bigger build quotes higher, and nothing goes below them. Every line is optional: a group that already exists skips matching, and a group outside Bali takes the first four and hosts the machine itself.
Most people arrive alone. That is fine: matching you with others who want the same machine is the service, not a favour. If you already have a group, you skip this step and buy the rest directly.
What you want to run sets the video memory, and that sets everything else. You get a real build plan — hardware, power, cooling, network, software — that belongs to the group whatever happens next.
No pot, no pool, no one holding the money. Each member is invoiced by Heroic24 LLC for their share: a deposit when the order goes in, the balance on delivery. Parts are never bought before the deposits land, and you never pay everything before it arrives.
Through channels we already run. You see the cost and pay it plus 10% — the same hardware, without you having to find, vet and export it yourself.
Physical assembly, burn-in, and the serving stack installed: member accounts, private API keys, usage visible to everyone, fair-share scheduling. Handed over working.
In Bali we host it: from $900 a month, all-inclusive — power, internet, monitoring and service. Anywhere else, the group hosts it and we hand over a machine that runs.
What you want to run sets the video memory you need, and that sets everything else. Pick the smallest machine that runs what you actually use.
Card prices moved 55% in a single quarter in 2026 and Apple pulled its 512GB configuration. Quotes carry a short validity window for exactly that reason, and deposits are taken before parts are ordered — never after prices move.
All five services, ending with the machine humming in our own facility. Hosting is all-inclusive from $900 a month per machine plus $10 per member: electricity, internet, monitoring and control, and service. You log in; we keep it alive.
Matching, parts from China, design and assembly, delivered anywhere. The group hosts the machine where it likes — a home, an office, a local facility. Hosting in other countries comes later, country by country, and only where the numbers work.
Our customers run these numbers themselves. So here they are, including the row where we come last.
| Path | Real 2026 cost | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Cheap API (DeepSeek) | $0.14 in / $0.28 out per M tokens | Cheapest, by a mile Filtered, metered, and your data leaves you. |
| Pricier APIs (Kimi, GLM, 405B-class) | ~$1–3.50 per M output | Owning gets cost-competitive above roughly 3–8 billion tokens a month. |
| Renting 8× H100 around the clock | ~$11,700 / month | Rent Buying the same used server (~$160–200k) costs less than eighteen months of it. |
| Hetzner flat server, rented | ~$965 / month, forever | Rent One GPU, no group layer, and after five years you have spent about $58,000 and own nothing. |
| Your machine, hosted by us in Bali | From $900 / month, all-inclusive | Own A comparable monthly bill — and the machine is yours. |
Hetzner rents you a single-GPU server for about $965 a month, forever.
We host a machine you own, all-inclusive, from $900 a month.
Roughly the same bill. One of them ends with you holding hardware.
Imagine how much money you would save if, rather than renting a pod 24/7 for just yourself, you pooled your cash with some other people who also wanted to use those models.r/LocalLLaMA · December 2023
Would it be worth it for say 4 or 5 people to split the cost if I could provide free data center hosting?r/LocalLLaMA · March 2025
I wish I had friends that were actually into LLMs… I'd buy one and split the cost with 2-3 other friends.r/LocalLLaMA · May 2025
That last one is the whole reason matching exists. r/LocalLLaMA is at 794,000 members and grew 55% in a year; Ollama is at roughly 9 million users. The appetite is not in question — finding the other three people was. There is a name for what they have been describing, and it is community AI compute: a group that buys one machine together instead of renting hours from somebody else.
You do not need a group — that is what matching is for. Tell us the budget and the tier and we will come back with the machine, the people, and the real numbers. No payment, no commitment.