RunningHub compute and growth docket#

Status: Decision log Scope: Haima platform relationship and initial workflow-distribution hypothesis; current acquisition/pricing research remains incomplete.

2026-10-04 — Infrastructure operator behind a workflow community#

Takeaway and compute#

RunningHub's about page names 安徽海马云智能科技发展有限公司 as its owner. Haima lists RunningHub within its applications and describes its GPUaaS infrastructure and mixed rendering/inference scheduling. This establishes the operator/application relationship, not legal title to all serving GPUs. RunningHub about, Haima platform.

A 2025-07-17 supplier announcement identifies bulk GPU-resource rental to Haima. It is group-level contracted capacity, not a RunningHub-only hardware purchase, delivered fleet count or current per-job supplier bill. Supplier announcement.

The prior investigation also checked the supplier investor-relations record and a newer UCloud filing correcting an older rental relationship. Preserve those date-specific conclusions rather than labeling UCloud the current GPU supplier. See the detailed procurement report.

Growth and monetization#

Published positioning: RunningHub promotes cloud ComfyUI, reusable workflow content and community access. That documents a creator/user distribution surface, not the effectiveness of that funnel. Official about page.

Inference to test: creators publish reusable workflows; users discover useful outputs without building an environment; repeated execution can convert into paid capacity. Haima's broader infrastructure could support efficient utilization, but spare gaming GPU transfer into RunningHub is not disclosed. Do not turn either hypothesis into a proven subsidy or growth mechanism.

Gaps and next evidence#

Still needed: current free allowance and paid GPU pricing, creator rewards/referrals, domestic versus international offers, paid conversion, cohort retention, attributable user/revenue growth and workload allocation within Haima. This snapshot does not yet establish RunningHub's monetization schedule or quantify its acquisition loop.

About/platform/supplier pages were re-read on 2026-10-04; deeper supplier evidence is carried from October 3. See the new manifest, prior manifest and coverage index.

2026-10-04 — Creator revenue, referrals and time-windowed member subsidies#

Current international homepage: it advertises workflow/model discovery, simplified AI apps, an invitation reward of 500 RH Coins to each side, contests and a limited one-month member promotion with 13 hours of free generation daily. Another banner markets a “$100M subsidy” ending October 10. These are campaign claims—not funds actually spent, audited acquisition costs or perpetual free access. The user-facing credits do not prove Haima has zero compute cost. Homepage.

Explicit creator mechanism: successful users of workflows/apps/models, including API calls, favorites and originality feed rewards. Copied models are excluded and verified manually. The program reserves rule-adjustment rights; payout terms are published but actual settlements were not tested. This supports a creator-catalog distribution strategy without establishing creator profit or conversion. Official incentive rules.

Pricing limit: the site's real membership link, /vip-rights/2, returned only a JavaScript shell; the API-fee page showed no tariff data. An indexed older shared-API page lists per-second billing by VRAM tier, but the live route now redirects to a billing shell. Those indexed rates are not renewed as current prices. Community posts advertise 1,000-credit referrals and daily bonuses, but they are user-authored promotion, not an official universal entitlement. Mainland and international campaigns/currencies must stay separate. Membership entry, API fees.

Inference: template authors and simplified apps broaden useful execution; timed member subsidies may shape demand and sell subscriptions. No primary evidence measures this cohort or assigns spare gaming capacity to it. Current checkout tariffs, daily free entitlement, retained paid accounts, revenue, serving-provider split and hardware title remain unresolved.

This offer/growth pass is complete with these access/measurement limits. Prior Haima wholesale rental evidence remains valid at its stated group/date boundary; no allocation or paid account was created. Refresh manifest.