# Akash vs Render: permissionless and on-chain vs closed and off-chain

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-06-27
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:54 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=894s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2025-06-27-akash-vs-render-permissionless-and-on-chain-vs-clo-7vwi/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash vs Render: permissionless and on-chain vs closed and off-chain," Beyond GPUs: How Decentralization Can Solve AI's Biggest Scaling Bottleneck \| Day 2 \| Crypto x AI (Blockworks), 27 Jun 2025, 00:14:54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgD4BzHEcu4&t=894s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash is permissionless, decentralized. It runs fully on-chain — every transaction, every lease happens on-chain — whereas Render is closed source and off-chain. \[The\] only thing that happens on-chain is payments and nothing else... one is permissionless, another one is not. And we emphasize quite heav\[ily\] on self-custody.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Q&A answer to "what's the difference between Akash and Render."