Chutes AI
Ranked 13 of 14 inference providers by recommenders
A subscription service for running open-weight AI models on GPUs, with TEE instances that keep prompts private from the GPU owners.
A subscription service for running open-weight AI models on GPUs, with TEE instances that keep prompts private from the GPU owners.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Trusted execution environment keeps prompts private
“models are served from a Trusted Execution Environment, so the GPU owners can't see your prompts”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem” “Chutes is mostly pretty good (cryptographic security all the way to the GPU)”
Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini” “they always use the full weights, and prompts are encrypted with TEE”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “An update on recent Claude Code quality reports” - Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens”
- Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras”
Cheap access to large open models
“One can run open weights in an exclusive TEE'd GPU too, which still comes out cheaper than closed weight LLMs.”
Comment from 17 Jul 2026 in “Kimi K3 is now live” “This gives you practically unlimited usage of frontier models like kimi, deepseek, glm.”
Comment from 10 May 2026 in “Best AI coding plan alternative to Claude and ChatGPT” “I can use much bigger and faster models on the $3 Chutes subscription”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks” Full weights and exact model configs
“they always use the full weights, and prompts are encrypted with TEE”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “An update on recent Claude Code quality reports” “They tell you exactly which model/quant and server config they use”
Comment from 25 Nov 2025 in “Claude Opus 4.5”
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| Chutes AIThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
All 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“models are served from a Trusted Execution Environment, so the GPU owners can't see your prompts”
“Chutes is mostly pretty good (cryptographic security all the way to the GPU)”
“One can run open weights in an exclusive TEE'd GPU too, which still comes out cheaper than closed weight LLMs.”
“No its super easy. I think the confusion is due to the serving and hosting APIs”
“This gives you practically unlimited usage of frontier models like kimi, deepseek, glm.”
“We have chutes.ai for distributed GPU computing and it seems to be quite successful.”
“they always use the full weights, and prompts are encrypted with TEE”
“they have TEE instances, which are more private.”
“I can use much bigger and faster models on the $3 Chutes subscription”
“chutes.ai TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)”
“They tell you exactly which model/quant and server config they use”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.