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AI Without
The Middleman

Every model. No account. All your prompts are encrypted.

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Answeringa computer in Leeds
What can I make with mince, rice and a tin of tomatoes?
Plenty. Brown the mince, tip in the tomatoes, season, and let it bubble for fifteen minutes. Serve over the rice.
● answered in 2s encrypted no account used checked ✓
0Accounts needed
0Companies in the middle
3Platforms
100%Open source

The same models.
A fraction of the price.

Whoever answers your question sets their own price, and they're all competing for the work. That's what keeps pushing it down.

ModelUsual priceOn rootmodeSave
GLM 5.2open weights $1.40$0.4270%
Kimi K3open weights $3.00$0.9070%
DeepSeek V4open weights $0.45$0.1469%
MiniMax M3open weights $0.30$0.0970%

Illustration, not a price list — rootmode has no prices of its own to set. Figures are per million words in, against typical hosted rates.

Owned by no one.
Open to everyone.

rootmode isn't a company's service. It's people's computers talking to each other directly — the way files once moved between people, with no shop in the middle.

you answering answering

All your prompts are encrypted

They travel encrypted to the computer that answers. There's no company server in the middle to collect them. That machine has to read the question to answer it — nobody else does.

Nothing to sign up for

No email, no password, no card. Open the app and start typing — there's no account for anyone to close.

Nobody can switch it off

No one owns the network, so no one can raise the price, change the rules, or take it away from you.

You're 3 steps from using it.

None of them involve a form.

1

Download the app

It installs like any other program, on Mac, Windows or Linux. Nothing to fill in.

2

Open it

It finds computers that are free to help and shows you what each one can do. Ready the moment it opens.

3

Ask for something

Type a question and get an answer. Ask for a picture and it lands in your downloads.

Got GPUs? Anyone can serve.

No application, no approval queue. Run the worker on your machine, set your own price, and answer as much or as little as you like.

Setup takes minutes

Same compose file on every box. Point .env at the vLLM or ComfyUI you already run. The container needs no GPU access of its own.

You set the price

Charge what you like, or nothing at all. Serve a request, get paid — no invoicing, no approval.

Your box stays yours

Nothing a client sends is ever executed. They fill in the parameters you declared, and nothing else reaches your machine.

How to run a worker Read the protocol

Fair questions.

Do I need to be good with computers?

No. If you can open an app and type, you can use it. There's nothing to set up and nothing to configure.

Isn't this the same as ChatGPT or OpenRouter?

The apps look similar; underneath they're opposites. Those are one company taking your request through their own computers. rootmode has no company in the middle — your app talks straight to whoever is answering.

Why is it cheaper?

Nobody's paying for enormous data centres. People use computers they already own, and they compete with each other on price. The app itself is free.

Who can see what I type?

Only the computer answering it, and it isn't kept afterwards. If you'd rather keep everything at home, you can run it entirely on your own machine.

What's the catch?

It depends on people running workers. The more machines on the network, the faster and cheaper it gets for everyone.

What if you disappear?

It keeps working. There's no central service to switch off — it's people's computers helping each other, and that carries on without us.

Start using AI that
nobody owns.

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