The short version
A few of the links that take you from Compute Pulse to a provider's own site carry a referral code. If you sign up with one of those providers and later spend money, the provider may pay us a small commission. You pay nothing extra, and the price you see on our board is the same price you would get by typing the provider's address in yourself.
Every link that pays us is marked rel="sponsored" in the page source, which is the standard machine-readable signal for a paid link.
Which links pay us
As of the effective date above, exactly one provider does: Runpod. Their programme pays 3% of Pod spend and 5% of Serverless spend for a referred account's first six months, and only for brand-new accounts. Links to every other provider on the site earn us nothing.
We do not accept payment for being listed, for a better position, or for a verification badge, and no provider has ever been added or removed from the index because of a commercial relationship.
Why ranking is unaffected
This is a structural property, not a promise. The referral code is applied to a link at the moment the page is rendered — after the ranking has already been computed from price alone. The code lives in one small table that the ranking code does not read and cannot reach. A commission cannot influence a sort order it is never shown to.
The practical consequence: a provider that pays us will sit below a cheaper provider that pays us nothing, on every board, every time. If you ever find a case where that is not true, it is a bug, and we want to hear about it.
Where prices come from
Prices are collected from provider APIs, provider pricing pages, and public aggregators, then converted to a per-GPU hourly figure in US dollars so that providers can be compared in one unit. Where a provider quotes in another currency we show their original figure alongside ours. Rates change without notice and a provider's own page is always the authority — check it before you buy.
Corrections
If a number attributed to you is wrong, or you want your listing changed or removed, mail harry@compute-pulse.com and we will correct it. Providers who tell us something is wrong get it fixed whether or not they pay us anything.