Goal / 01

Buying a machine to run AI should not require faith.

The hardware underneath modern AI is expensive, fast-moving and badly documented. Spec sheets quote peak numbers nobody sustains. Prices sit behind sales calls. Two cards with the same name on the box behave nothing alike once they are under load in a real chassis.

We are trying to close that gap. Everything we sell, and both of the indexes we publish, exist to make one question answerable before you spend anything: what will this actually do, and what will it actually cost?

In practice

01

Legible

Listings carry the numbers that decide a build — sustained clocks, power draw, thermal behaviour under load — drawn from manufacturer documentation and published testing, not from a launch-day peak figure.

02

Comparable

The Hardware Index and the Cloud Index are public and free. You can use both without buying anything from us, and we would rather you did that than buy the wrong machine.

03

Reachable

Pricing and stock are on the page. No quote gate, no discovery call, no contact form standing between you and a number.

Method / 02

How we operate

Four commitments that decide what we stock and how we describe it.

01

Sealed, authorised stock

Everything ships factory-sealed from authorised distribution, so the manufacturer warranty is intact and the serial is clean. We do not open retail boxes and we do not sell refurbished as new.

02

Held in stock, not drop-shipped

We hold what we sell. It means a narrower catalog than a marketplace, and it means the lead time on the page is the real one.

03

Engineers answer support

Questions about power budgets, cooling headroom and interconnect go to people who have actually racked the hardware.

04

Prices tracked, not guessed

The Cloud Index pulls rental prices from provider APIs and pricing pages on an hourly schedule, so rent-versus-buy is a calculation instead of a hunch.

Scope / 03