An estimated 95–99% of GPU deals price in private, negotiated commitments — no independent reference exists, and every existing one is published by a party with a position in the trade (sourced and cited). This path is The Grid’s answer: the check reads your quote against everything the record holds, the confidentiality demo shows exactly what the public would ever see from your row, and a confirmed submission becomes part of the only independent record of the negotiated market. The bargain runs one way: you can’t see yourself in the market without contributing to it.
Checking a quote on the site was removed from the public site on 2026-10-16 (ruling R-PUB-2026-10-16). The participation path remains: a priced deal can still be submitted under the published evidence tiers and confidentiality floors.
Participation →A headline $/GPU-hour is not what a buyer signs. What is customarily negotiated alongside price — configuration, quantity, term, region, delivery, SLA, prepay — and what the check reads per dimension today.
The priced unit →Evidence tiers, the confidentiality floors, and the benchmark-submission carve-out language a counterparty's counsel can verify before any term is disclosed.
Participation & carve-out →Sealed submissions held: 0 — the register is new, and the reads say so rather than pretending otherwise. Every future row is sealed into a chained hash ledger whose digest is attested daily. The floors are structural: an aggregate renders WITHHELD below 2 comparable observations; nothing is cited from a cohort smaller than 5.