Introduction
Pawpado is a cloud GPU gaming platform for Indonesia. We provision a dedicated NVIDIA-backed Windows desktop in Jakarta (AWS ap-southeast-3) on demand, stream it to your laptop or phone, and bill you by the second for what you actually use.
There are no monthly tiers. You top up a credit balance, click Start, and the meter runs while your session is alive. Stop the session, the meter stops. Storage for your installed games (Steam library, save files, mods) is billed separately per gigabyte while it exists — with a generous free tier — so a 200 GB game library doesn't quietly cost you anything between play sessions.
This documentation covers everything you need to use Pawpado: signing up, starting your first session, the portal, the SDKs and CLI, and the public API.
New to Pawpado? Start with the Quickstart — from signup to running game in about ten minutes.
What's here
The docs are laid out roughly in the order you'll meet things:
- Getting started — sign up, top up credits, start a streaming session.
- Core concepts — session, pairing, credits, the Tailscale connection, persistent storage.
- Authentication — how sign-in works. Pawpado uses Huudis, Forjio's shared identity provider, so your account is shared with every other Forjio product.
- Portal — per-page tour of
pawpado.com/dashboard: starting sessions, topping up credits, managing storage. - API reference — the REST API behind the portal, authenticated with a Huudis bearer token.
- SDKs —
@forjio/pawpado-node,pawpadoon PyPI, andgithub.com/hachimi-cat/saas-pawpado/sdk/go.
Pay-as-you-go, two meters
Pawpado has exactly two meters running on your account:
- Compute — per-second billing while a session is in the
runningstate. Stop the session and this meter pauses immediately. - Storage — per-gigabyte-hour while your EBS volume exists. You get the first few GB free; you only pay for what's above the free tier.
That's it. No subscriptions, no monthly minimums, no surprise fees. Top up with Plugipay (cards, virtual accounts, e-wallets), and the credit balance is yours until you spend it.
Why per-second? Cloud GPUs are expensive (~Rp 25,000/hour). If you only play for forty minutes, billing for a full hour means you've paid for twenty minutes of nothing. We meter at the second so a forty-minute session is forty minutes — no rounding up.
The Forjio family
Pawpado is one of seven products in the Forjio family, all sharing identity (Huudis SSO), billing infrastructure (Plugipay), and design conventions. If you've used Storlaunch, Fulkruma, Ripllo, LinkSnap, or Catentio, the auth flow and SDK shapes here will feel familiar.
Each product owns its own bounded context. Pawpado owns the GPU lifecycle, pairing, credits, and the streaming portal. It does not own your identity (that's Huudis) or your payment methods (those live in Plugipay).
Reach us
- GitHub issues: hachimi-cat/saas-pawpado
- Email: support@forjio.com
Ready? Go to the Quickstart.