# Neuralwatt

18 Hacker News commenters recommended Neuralwatt and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Neuralwatt for cheap, energy-metered access to open-weight models, with per-call energy reporting. Main caveat: it raised its prices after a cheap start.

## Why people recommend it

- Cheap, energy-based pricing (7 comments): "providers like neuralwatt cut that cost down even more by using energy as the actual cost." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811620)) "very generous pricing since we have options to bill per kWh instead of per token" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587532)) "I'm using synthetic.new and Neuralwatt with pi and its good and also cheap" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713059))
- Measures and reports energy use (4 comments): "the energy numbers I get from Neuralwatt are within the ballpark of what is available elsewhere" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938472)) "we have a service which actually optimizes and measures the energy of your AI use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699091)) "They report energy usage with every call as well as aggregate statistics." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897112))
- Happy existing customers (3 comments): "Switched from Standard to Pro last week, it's great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942777)) "Price/performance for api pricing was great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715027)) "not affiliated, just a happy customer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622701))

## What people warn about

- Raised prices after cheap start (2 comments): "Neuralwatt was cheap (but slow) but they cranked their price." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936547)) "But Neuralwatt significantly raised their rates since then." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297392))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [DeepInfra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepinfra.md): 36 recommend
- [Together AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/together-ai.md): 20 recommend
- [fal.ai](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fal-ai.md): 19 recommend
- [Baseten](https://hackerapproved.com/p/baseten.md): 15 recommend
- [Replicate](https://hackerapproved.com/p/replicate.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://neuralwatt.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Neuralwatt", https://hackerapproved.com/p/neuralwatt/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).