Also available in Español. This page is for the people who approve the budget, not the people who write the code. It covers what MicroDC.ai does, why it costs less, how your data stays private, and where it fits in a business. The technical version is on the How It Works page.
Your business has work that AI can do: reading contracts, sorting customer feedback, pulling numbers out of invoices, writing product descriptions, translating documents. That work needs powerful, expensive computers. MicroDC.ai gives you access to thousands of them, already running, without buying, renting, or staffing a single one. You send us the work. We send back the results. You pay only for work completed.
AI runs on specialized computer chips called GPUs. Each one costs tens of thousands of dollars, a serious setup needs many of them, and the total runs into the hundreds of thousands before the first job runs. Renting from a large cloud provider avoids the purchase, but the hourly rates are steep and add up quickly.
Whether you buy or rent, you pay for the machine around the clock. Most businesses keep theirs busy only 15 to 40 percent of the time. The rest of the bill is money spent on equipment that is sitting idle.
A customer chatbot needs a reply in a second. A stack of 10,000 contracts to review does not. Yet most companies pay instant-answer prices for work that could just as well be finished overnight.
A company that ships goods doesn't buy its own fleet and let the trucks sit in the lot between deliveries. It hands the freight to a carrier that already has trucks on the road, and pays by the shipment. MicroDC.ai does the same thing for AI work, in four steps.
Your team or your software vendor sends us the task: the documents, the questions, the data. Setup takes minutes and uses the same tools developers already use with the big AI providers.
Our system matches each job to a suitable computer in a network of thousands, sized to the task. No reservations, no waiting for equipment to be provisioned.
Large batches are spread across many machines at once, so 10,000 documents don't wait in a single line. Sensitive work can be locked so that only you can read it.
Finished results are delivered straight into your systems. You are billed only for completed work, with a receipt for every job.
| Buy your own machines | Rent from a big cloud | MicroDC.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | Hundreds of thousands for a working setup | None | None |
| Ongoing commitment | Power, space, upkeep, replacement | Hourly rates, billed busy or idle | None. Pay per job. |
| Paying for idle time | Yes, all of it | Yes | No |
| Staff to run it | Dedicated engineers | Cloud engineers | Your existing team or vendor |
| Time to first result | Months | Days to weeks | Minutes |
| Minimum spend | Large | Usually none, but grows fast | $1. Credits never expire. |
| Failed work | You still paid for the machine | You still paid for the hours | Not charged |
We took one unedited week of real customer traffic on the network, 17,757 individual tasks across three AI models, and priced the identical work on Amazon Web Services.
Rates on the network move with supply and demand, so this is what the ledger showed that week, not a guarantee. The rented-machine figure counts only hours the equipment was actually working. A real deployment also pays for idle hours, a backup machine, and the engineer who looks after it. Read the full breakdown →
Pull key terms, renewal dates, and obligations out of every agreement you hold. Flag the ones that need a person to look at them.
Read scanned invoices, receipts, and application forms. Turn paper and PDFs into clean spreadsheet rows your systems can use.
Sort reviews, support tickets, and survey responses by topic and tone. Learn what customers are actually saying, across all of them.
Product descriptions, personalized summaries, and translations for every catalog entry or market, not just the top sellers.
Condense long reports, filings, and internal documents into briefings your team will actually read.
Queue the big batch at close of business. Results are waiting in the morning, processed at the lowest rates.
You can have your documents locked (encrypted) on your own computers before they leave. Only your systems hold the key. The machine doing the work handles the data in memory and erases it when finished. We cannot read your data, and neither can anyone else on the network. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications are in progress.
A network that includes MicroDC-run facilities and vetted partner operators. Every machine is monitored and scored, and removed if it underperforms. Locked, sensitive jobs run only on machines MicroDC manages directly.
You need someone who can connect software to a web service, which most IT teams, developers, and software vendors do routinely. MicroDC.ai works with the same tools used for the large AI providers, so switching is usually a small change, not a project.
You are not charged. Credits are deducted only when a job finishes successfully, and every completed job comes with a receipt you can audit.
Yes. New accounts get free credits with no credit card required. When you are ready to buy, start at $1. There is no contract, no monthly minimum, and credits never expire.
Not primarily. MicroDC.ai is built for work that can wait minutes or hours: batches, back-office processing, overnight runs. That patience is exactly where the savings come from. If your need is somewhere in between, ask us.
| Inference | Using a trained AI model to do work: answer a question, summarize a document, label a record. This is what you pay for. |
| Model | The AI itself. Different models are better at different tasks and cost different amounts. MicroDC.ai offers more than 100. |
| GPU | The specialized computer chip that runs AI. Expensive to buy, and the main reason AI processing costs what it does. |
| Token | The unit AI work is measured in. Roughly three-quarters of a word. Prices are usually quoted per million tokens. |
| Job | One unit of work you send us: a document to summarize, a batch of records to classify. Each job gets its own receipt. |
| Queue | The line jobs wait in before a machine picks them up. Because jobs can wait a little, we can use machines that would otherwise sit idle. |
| Encryption | Locking data so only the key holder can read it. Available on every job for sensitive material. |
Have your team run one real batch this week on free credits. Or talk to us about sizing a larger workload and what it would cost.