Akash Network API: Provider Counts, Compute Supply & Revenue
What the Metrics Tell You
Akash's metrics — active providers, registered capacity, compute capacity, protocol revenue, and TVL — work best when read together:
- Active vs. registered providers — how much of the marketplace is genuinely offering compute.
- Compute capacity — the actual CPU/GPU available, distinct from provider count.
- Utilization — active leases over registered capacity; the real demand signal.
- Protocol revenue and TVL — the economic activity and capital committed to the network.
A Usage Scenario
Imagine a workload scheduler that picks the cheapest reliable compute across Akash and other marketplaces. The naive version reads advertised prices and picks the lowest — then hits availability walls and hidden utilization gaps. The robust version reads gpu_active, gpu_registered, and compute_utilization for each candidate, adjusts list price for real utilization, and routes work to where compute is genuinely available and fairly priced.
This is a concrete improvement that depends on first-party supply telemetry and provenance. Without it, the scheduler is optimizing against marketing numbers; with it, it optimizes against the network's actual state.
Akash Network (AKT) is the leading decentralized compute marketplace. If you're building a DePIN analytics tool, a compute pricing dashboard, or researching the Akash ecosystem, you need reliable data — and you need to know where it came from.
What We Track for Akash
The Kairos Signal API provides the following first-party metrics for Akash Network, each with a verify_yourself URL pointing to the upstream source:
- Active providers — from
stats.akash.network/providers - Registered providers — from
stats.akash.network/providers - Compute capacity (CPU/GPU) — from Akash's own API
- Protocol revenue (24h/7d/30d) — from DefiLlama
- TVL — from DefiLlama
- Price & market cap — from CoinGecko
Why Provider Counts and Compute Supply Are Different Questions
Akash's active_providers count is a supply-side metric — how many marketplace participants are offering compute. It is not the same as compute supply, which measures the actual CPU/GPU capacity those providers make available. A network can add providers while total available compute stays flat, or vice versa. For a developer choosing where to run workloads, compute supply and its utilization matter more than raw provider count.
The most decision-relevant figure is active compute under lease versus registered compute — the capacity-utilisation ratio. It tells you whether the market has slack (easy to get a slot, lower prices) or is tight (scarcity, higher prices). We track both halves from Akash's own telemetry and expose them as canonical concepts (gpu_active, gpu_registered, compute_utilization) so your provisioning logic can react to the real market state, not the marketing number.
Why Verifiable Revenue Data Matters
Protocol revenue — the fees Akash actually collects — is the closest thing a compute marketplace has to a health signal. Separating verified revenue from token inflation is the difference between assessing a real business and assessing a narrative. We source revenue from DefiLlama and on-chain state, and every value carries a verify_url to the upstream source plus a freshness_verdict, so you can confirm any revenue figure before acting on it.
What We Track for Akash
- Active providers — from
stats.akash.network/providers - Registered providers — from
stats.akash.network/providers - Compute capacity (CPU/GPU) — from Akash's own API
- Protocol revenue (24h/7d/30d) — from DefiLlama
- TVL — from DefiLlama
- Price & market cap — from CoinGecko
Query Akash Data
# Get all Akash metrics with provenance
curl "https://api.kairossignal.com/v1/networks/akash" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Compare Akash with other compute networks
curl "https://api.kairossignal.com/v1/compare?network=akash&concept=ACTIVE_PROVIDERS" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
Every response includes source, as_of, age_hours, freshness, and verify_yourself — so you can check any number against the original source.
Get a Free API Key
Register for $5 free credits — no credit card:
curl -X POST https://kairossignal.com/v1/credits/register \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"[email protected]"}'
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Try it yourself
Query the live catalog, supply telemetry, and provenance receipts directly: /v1/networks, /v1/supply on the REST API.
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Get Started With DePIN Intelligence
Kairos Signal provides verifiable, provenance-first telemetry for DePIN networks, including first-party supply data read directly from a network's own API or blockchain. Every value carries a verify_url you can check yourself, and each daily batch is Merkle-rooted and anchored to Bitcoin.
Every API response is signed with ed25519 and timestamped. You can prove what was served and when, months later. That is what we mean by provenance-first.
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