Theo Computer

1. What for, and which computer. Say what you want to do and pick from our Good / Better / Best suggestions, or any computer for sale. The price shown is locked when you save; the name you give it also seeds the computer's address. Coming from the public page, the box you built there is already filled in.

2. How long you plan to use it. An estimate, not a purchase: pick a duration and we set an auto-stop for it and suggest what to add to your balance; pick “until I stop it” and the balance is the only clock.

3. Details, optional. Disk size, environment variables, a start command for your own image, extra ports, a region, framework versions, models to preload, datasets to mount, your SSH public keys and anything else. Secrets (a Hugging Face token, a registry login for a private image, dataset credentials) go in a sealed box of their own.

4. Add funds and start. If your balance already covers at least an hour of the computer, you start right away. Otherwise you add funds first (the suggested amount covers the duration you planned), read the exact terms you are agreeing to, tick the box, and pay by card. The computer is saved before you pay, so the price is locked either way.

The computer then shows as Setting up, then Checking it over once the box has booted, then Running. You are notified in-product at each step; the page polls on its own.

Market prices move with supply and refresh about every minute while you look at the board. The price you lock when you save a computer is yours for as long as it runs, whatever the board does afterwards. A reserved box we hold has a fixed price that never moves.

The meter starts the moment the computer is handed to you, not when you add funds, and draws the balance down by the minute at the locked rate. A computer may start only when your balance covers at least an hour of everything you have running; an account also has an hourly spend cap, which we raise on request.

Billing shows the balance, what is running and how long it will last, every top-up and every computer's usage by the hour. Receipts for card payments come from Stripe by email. You can set a low-balance alert; it rings once when the balance falls to the line, and again after each top-up.

Turn on auto-reload and, whenever your balance falls to a threshold you choose, we charge your saved card an amount you choose and add it to the balance. The standard rule is at $10.00, add $50.00; you can set any threshold below the amount.

It reloads at most once an hour, and pauses itself if it ever runs many times within an hour, so a runaway can never drain a card. You agree to the exact sentence before it is on, either by ticking the box when you add funds (which saves that card) or from Billing with the card on file. A declined card, a bank asking you to confirm, a refund or a dispute pauses it, with the reason and the way back shown in Billing.

The computer's page lists your endpoints with a copy button each: the notebook, the inference API, your app, the SSH host and port, and any extra ports you asked for. Press Reveal to see the credentials we minted for them. They are decrypted on demand and never sent by email.

Connect over SSH as theo with the key you provided; the sudo password is one of the revealed credentials. The inference endpoint speaks the OpenAI API, so existing clients work with the base URL swapped and the API key as the bearer token.

Stop from the computer's page whenever you like. Access ends immediately, the computer is wiped, only the minutes it ran were drawn, and the rest of your balance stays for next time. A computer that was never delivered can be cancelled with nothing drawn.

Auto-stop is the optional hard end you set when you plan a duration; change or remove it any time from the page, no money moves. You are reminded 24 hours, 2 hours and 15 minutes before it arrives. When it does, access is cut and the data is kept for two hours: change the auto-stop inside that window and the computer comes back exactly as it was.

When your balance reaches zero, every running computer is stopped the same way, with the same two-hour window: add funds and they come back, with the meter running again. After the window, the computer is wiped.