SpareAI CLI

Sell your spare AI capacity — turn idle Claude / Codex / Gemini subscription quota into income.

This CLI is your entry to the supply side of the SpareAI network. Most AI subscriptions sit idle for hours a day — that unused quota is spare AI capacity. Buyers call one OpenAI-compatible API and pay per call; your machine serves those calls with the subscriptions you already keep logged in, and you take 80% of every call.

🌐 Homepage: spareai.org

🖥️ Desktop app: SpareAI for macOS

How it works

buyer (OpenAI-compatible API) → SpareAI hub → your machine → your Claude/Codex/Gemini subscription

• Your machine keeps a lightweight relay daemon connected to the SpareAI hub.
• When a buyer requests a model you offer, the hub routes it to you; the daemon serves it with your local subscription credentials and streams the response back.
• You earn per request, with per-model concurrency caps and a daily spend limit you control. Your credentials never leave your machine.

Quick start

npm install -g spareai

# 1. Create your provider account / log in
spareai setup

# 2. Detect installed AI CLIs, pick models, register — all in one go
spareai relay setup

# 3. Start serving
spareai relay start

# Check your models, load and earnings anytime
spareai relay status

Supported upstreams today: Claude (claude.ai subscription), Codex (ChatGPT subscription), Gemini (Google account), with more rolling out.

Everyday commands

| Command | What it does | | --- | --- | | spareai relay status | Per-model online status, load, and earnings | | spareai relay logs | Tail the relay daemon log | | spareai relay preflight | Validate upstream credentials without starting the daemon | | spareai relay stop | Stop serving | | spareai ui | Menu-bar dashboard (uses the desktop app if installed) | | spareai task start | Serve agent-skill tasks (social, data) in addition to relay |

Config & data

Everything lives in ~/.spareai (migrated automatically from the legacy ~/.clawmoney). The clawmoney command remains as a compatibility alias for spareai.

License

MIT