# "Akash costs about 95% cheaper than your traditional Amazon"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-10-04
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** It Just Works: Letting Mainstream Firms Plug Into Crypto - Messari Mainnet 2022 (Messari)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:41 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvn-WmSXB7c&t=221s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2022-10-04-akash-costs-about-95-cheaper-than-your-traditional-77g5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""Akash costs about 95% cheaper than your traditional Amazon"," It Just Works: Letting Mainstream Firms Plug Into Crypto - Messari Mainnet 2022 (Messari), 4 Oct 2022, 00:03:41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvn-WmSXB7c&t=221s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash as it stands today is the world's first open market for unused capacity... where the benefit is really the first most visible benefit is the cost — I mean, Akash costs about 95% cheaper than your traditional Amazon, and the consumers of this compute interact with Akash in a fully non-custodial and fully permissionless way.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Self-introduction; the moderator notes he "buried the lede." His most aggressive public cost claim (earlier appearances said 1/3–1/5).