Hive Inference P2P
Hive is a free, peer-to-peer network for collaborative AI inference. Lend your idle compute, a local model or spare cloud quota, to a project you believe in, and let a swarm of workers think together.
Why Hive exists
“We contribute code. We contribute money. What about compute?”
Right now there is a quiet abundance going to waste. Powerful local models sit idle between prompts. Daily Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini quotas reset unused.
Hive turns that idle capacity into something you can give. You do not need to understand the codebase. You do not need to write a single line of code. You just need to care about a project enough to turn a client on. It is a new kind of open-source contribution.
How it works
Machines talk directly to each other. One sends a task, the others send results back. No middle-man server, no platform, no account.
The owner describes a task in the desktop app and chooses how many workers tackle it.
Connected bees pick it up and run it on their own LLM, local or cloud, with their own key.
Results return over the encrypted link to compare across versions, merge, and accept.
The headline feature
Send one task to several bees, then let Hive merge their answers across rounds. The swarm refines its own work, often landing close to frontier quality while running on everyday hardware.
Built right
Every connection uses libp2p with the Noise protocol: ChaCha20-Poly1305, mutual ed25519 auth, forward secrecy. Peers verify each other directly.
Working on something closed-source? Keep it off third-party clouds. Run the swarm on local models so nothing leaves the people you trust.
Friendly Tauri apps for both owners and bees, plus headless CLIs. Turn it on, connect, contribute. No terminal required.
Local Ollama and LM Studio, or cloud APIs from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq, Google and more. Each bee brings its own.
Bees make outbound connections that punch through firewalls naturally. Run them anywhere, on any network, in any country. Pairs neatly with Tailscale.
MIT-licensed Rust, every line on GitLab. No telemetry, no lock-in, nothing phoning home. Fork it, run it, change it.
No catch
Hive does not sell anything, host anything, or take a cut of anything. There is no company behind a paywall. Just a prototype built because the concept deserved to be real, and shared in case it is useful to you.
Try it
It is an early prototype, built with Claude under my direction. Honest, hackable, and looking for people who want to tinker.
Hive is an experimental prototype shared as-is under the MIT licence. Bring your own LLM and API keys. You stay in control of what your machine runs.