quietmoneyChutes
Decentralized serverless inference platform that serves open-source LLMs through an OpenAI-compatible API; new models go live fast and TEE-protected models are supported.
Decentralized GOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
Checkout: checkout.stripe.com
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Decentralized serverless inference platform that serves open-source LLMs through an OpenAI-compatible API; new models go live fast and TEE-protected models are supported.
- Users
- Developers and AI apps (e.g. roleplay apps) calling open-source model APIs
- Positioning
- Decentralized compute, low prices, fastest to launch new open-source models
- Pricing
- Plus $10/month; Pro $20/month; custom enterprise; plus pay-as-you-go per million tokens Billing: mixed Free tier: no Source: Existing
- Prices on site
- $10/mo Plus; $20/mo Pro; Enterprise custom; pay-as-you-go per M tokens e.g. D
- Acquisition entry points on site
- Discord community
- Sharing mechanics
- open source, public profiles / leaderboards 'the leading open-source, decentralized compute provider' with GitHub footer link; Explore section 'Top Models Available Always On, Ready to Scale'
- Rough new MRR
- $11,003 – $51,576 Checkout visits last month × 20–30% conversion × listed price. New revenue only; renewals skip checkout, so real MRR is usually higher.
“'the leading open-source, decentralized compute provider' with GitHub footer link; Explore section 'Top Models Available Always On, Ready to Scale'”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Direct 78.5%, search 17.9%, brand keywords 96.4%; referrals from taostats.io (Bittensor ecosystem), freellm.net, vk.ru; AI referrals about 1.2% (Claude, ChatGPT). Open source with a public model leaderboard. Returning users come back through ongoing API calls and the status page.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| GEO | 1% |
| 2% | |
| Other | 96% |
Direct + brand search 96%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 55.27% |
| Saudi Arabia | 7.49% |
| Netherlands | 7.13% |
| Russia | 4.24% |
| Indonesia | 3.82% |
Countries (Semrush): United States 16.9%, Singapore 8.8%, Iraq 8.0%, Bangladesh 6.2%, Brazil 5.4%
Language
English
Social sources
Reddit, YouTube, X (Twitter)
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| Claude | 0.68 |
| ChatGPT | 0.5 |
| fictio.ai | 0.14 |
AI referrals (Semrush): Claude 1,109 (0.68%), ChatGPT 813 (0.50%), fictio.ai 221 (0.14%), l.meta.ai 66 (0.04%)
Keywords
262 keywords · brand ~96% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| chutes |
| chutes ai |
| chutesai |
| chutes api key |
| chutes status |
Referring sites
8 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| taostats.io | 3.73% |
| freellm.net | 3.28% |
| vk.ru | 1.88% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Programming and Developer Software | 10.64% |
| Computers Electronics and Technology - Other | 9.06% |
| Crypto Trading and Wallets | 3.96% |
| crypto/blockchain (raw label) | 3.73% |
| Social Media Networks | 0.99% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 295.1K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- -21.36%
- Country rank
- Indonesia #12865
- Category rank
- Computers Electronics and Technology/Programming and Developer Software (Indonesia) #257
- Bounce rate
- 38.95%
- Pages / visit
- 5.28
- Visit duration
- 00:02:25
- Industry
- Programming and Developer Software
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Referrals (top channel 70.31%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 311,742 · 2 months ago 172,156 · Last month 163,719 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 23,672 / 0
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- Direct 71.0%, google.com · Google organic 16.2%, reddit.com 2.2%, claude.ai 1.1%, stripe.com 1.0%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Piggyback on a platform”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Chutes get per month?
About 17,192 last month (Similarweb estimate), #188 of 606; the month before was 26,823. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Chutes's new users come from?
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Direct 78.5%, search 17.9%, brand keywords 96.4%; referrals from taostats.io (Bittensor ecosystem), freellm.net, vk.ru; AI referrals about 1.2% (Claude, ChatGPT). Open source with a public model leaderboard. Returning users come back through ongoing API calls and the status page.
How much does Chutes cost?
Plus $10/month; Pro $20/month; custom enterprise; plus pay-as-you-go per million tokens
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.