Inference Cooperative

Private AI, governed together.

The Inference Cooperative is a member-governed project providing private AI inference. We are fiscally sponsored by Metagov, a nonprofit, and funded through our Open Collective.

Website: https://inference.coop
Chat: https://chat.inference.coop
Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/inference-cooperative
Contact: info@inference.coop

The model

The Inference Cooperative is a member-governed AI inference utility. Members contribute on a sliding scale (currently $10–20/month) and, in return, get access to private AI inference through a shared, cooperatively governed infrastructure.

Because we are legally under a nonprofit (Metagov is our fiscal sponsor), we are member-governed rather than member-owned: members direct the project through governance, while the nonprofit holds the legal and financial structure.

Membership

Sliding scale: $10–20/month
Governance: members participate in decisions about models, privacy, and direction
Access: private AI inference through the cooperative's gateway

The stack

The Inference Cooperative runs a self-hosted stack on Cloudron, with all inference routed through a single gateway.

Members → LibreChat (chat.inference.coop)
              ↓
        LiteLLM gateway (gateway.inference.coop)
              ↓
        Inference backend (Ollama Cloud today; TEE-protected Tinfoil planned)

Components

Component	Purpose	URL
LibreChat	Member-facing chat interface	chat.inference.coop
LiteLLM	AI gateway — keys, metering, model routing	gateway.inference.coop
Gitea	Git hosting (code + docs)	git.inference.coop
Loomio	Member governance / decision-making	(forum)
Open Collective	Membership billing + fiscal sponsorship	opencollective.com/inference-cooperative

Models

The gateway currently exposes two models:

DeepSeek V4 Flash — default model, best for agentic tasks
GPT-OSS 120B — lightweight fallback

Privacy

Privacy is a core value. The current backend (Ollama Cloud) is a policy-based privacy model. The roadmap is to move to TEE-protected inference (via Tinfoil), which provides architectural — not just policy — privacy guarantees.

Governance

The Inference Cooperative is fiscally sponsored by Metagov. Members govern the project through Loomio and the Open Collective.

This documentation lives in a public git repository. Contributions welcome.

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