You let an app run in the background, share bandwidth you’re not using anyway, and get crypto in return. Zero effort after setup.
Grass (formerly known as GetGrass) works exactly like this. You don’t take surveys, you don’t click on anything, you don’t fill out anything. The app runs, you do something else.
But you need to know one thing before you get started. The platform isn’t for those looking for immediate rewards. It requires patience and consistency, and if you don’t have them (or don’t want them), there’s no point in continuing to read.
The rest of the review shows exactly how it works, how much you earn, and whether it’s worth the setup effort.
What is Grass, and how does it work?
Grass is a platform that buys a portion of the internet bandwidth you don’t use. Technically speaking, it’s called a DePIN, which stands for Decentralized Physical Internet Network. Basically, you give them some of your connection, and they give you money. If you’ve heard of Honeygain or Pawns, the mechanism is similar, with a few differences we’ll get to below.
Why do they need your internet? Grass uses it to collect public data from the web in real time. This data goes to AI labs around the world and is used to train artificial intelligence models. You provide the connection, they collect the data, the AI labs use it. That’s it.
The platform isn’t new, though not everyone knows its history. It launched in June 2023 under the name GetGrass.io and remained in beta for seven months, until January 2024. The official launch took place in February 2024. The first round of airdrop rewards reached users in October 2024, eight months later (a long wait, especially if you didn’t know exactly what to expect).
In April 2025, the platform rebranded from GetGrass to simply Grass. The same name is now also the platform’s official crypto token: GRASS. A small detail, but relevant if the crypto aspect matters to you, not just passive income.
There are now over three million active users sharing the internet through Grass. Everyone is waiting for the second round of airdrops.
You share the internet bandwidth you’re not using anyway and earn points for every hour the app is active. At least that was the original idea, with the browser extension. Since then, they’ve added a dedicated desktop program and a mobile app.
How many points you earn depends on how long you keep the app active and the quality of your connection. You don’t control the quality. They determine it based on the country you’re connecting from: Tier 1 gets 100%, the rest of the world gets 75%.
At 100% quality, the Chrome extension brings in about 100 points per hour. Desktop, 200. Mobile, 300. To me, mobile seems like the better option.
They say you can run multiple devices simultaneously, even on the same network. The problem is that if they’re on the same IP, the points are reduced across all devices. To earn the maximum on each, you need different networks: home Wi-Fi on your laptop, mobile data on your phone.
Installation is simple. You download the program, log in with your account credentials. You configure how to share the connection. You click Connect, see the active connection, and watch the points accumulate. It doesn’t consume any noticeable resources and runs in the background while you work normally.
Refer Your Friends
The second way to earn money on Grass is through referrals. You send your link, someone signs up through it, and they become your referral. Or you give them the code directly and tell them to enter it when they sign up (if you’d rather explain a bit about the platform first). The result is the same.
You receive 20% of what your referral earns. The money comes directly from Grass, not from their points. They earn what they earn. You receive your share separately. This is different from how other similar programs work, where the commission is deducted from the invited person’s earnings.
There’s also a bonus of 2,500 Grass Points if your referral remains active for 100 hours. It’s a one-time bonus per person, but it’s in addition to the regular commission.
And the program works on three levels. If your referral invites someone else, you receive 10% of that person’s earnings. If that person invites someone else, you get another 5%. In other words, you can earn from the activity of people you didn’t invite directly (but who were invited by someone you invited).
5% is small. But it depends on how many remain active.
How do you get paid?
The points you earn are converted into Grass tokens. The tokens are already traded on crypto platforms, so they have a real market value, they aren’t just internal credits with no way out.
Withdrawals can be sent to any Solana wallet. There is a transfer fee, just a few cents, because it’s crypto, and that’s standard on Solana.
The problem is different. You can’t withdraw whenever you want. Grass distributes tokens via airdrops at times of their choosing. So far, there has been only one airdrop. The second one has no set date.
What they officially said was during a call with token holders in November 2025. Airdrop 2 will be distributed via a new wallet integrated directly into the dashboard, distribution is based on long-term contribution to the network, and all eligibility details will be announced once the wallet infrastructure is ready, in the first half of 2026. That’s it. Nothing more specific.
It’s different from other GPT platforms where you withdraw once you’ve reached the minimum threshold. Here, there is no threshold. There’s an airdrop, and the airdrop comes when it comes. If you’re used to controlling when you take out your money, this will bother you.
I caught the first airdrop (I’ve been on the platform since the beginning) and claimed tokens without any issues. It works. But if you join today, you’ll have to wait.
A serious warning: there are scammers posing as Grass and announcing fake airdrops to empty your crypto wallet. Verify any communication about airdrops exclusively on the official website and their official social media accounts.
Once the tokens are in your wallet, you can stake them to earn extra passive crypto income. This means locking them up for a certain period of time.
How much money can you make with Grass?
Your earnings depend on your network score. And that score comes down to two things: where you are and how many unique IPs are connected to your account.
You can’t control your location. Some IP addresses are worth more, and that directly affects your final earnings.
Unique IPs are the interesting part. If you have GetGrass installed on three computers, but they’re all on the same public IP, the earnings don’t add up. They’re split. You end up with the same total as if you had just one computer, except you have three devices wasting electricity for nothing.
So more doesn’t mean better if the IP is the same.
Different IPs change the equation. One at home, one at work, one on mobile data if it’s a separate network, each counts independently. That’s what makes the real difference.
With a single IP, it works, but slowly. It’s not a problem if you’re not in a hurry. If you have access to multiple ones, it’s a different story.
It’s passive in the sense that you don’t have to do anything after you install it. How much you actually gain depends almost entirely on how many distinct IPs you have available.
Who can use Grass?
The platform is available pretty much everywhere, but you can’t sign up directly. You need an invitation code, which isn’t immediately obvious if you land on the site without any context. You can get the code either from their Discord server or through a referral link, like the one at the end of my review.
Once you have the code, the steps follow one after another without any complications. You fill out the registration form, install the browser extension, enter your login details, and you’re done. The extension launches, and your account is active.
The only point where you might get stuck is with the invitation code. If you know where to get it, the rest takes just a few minutes.
Can you use it on your phone?
When I first tested GetGrass, there were no mobile apps. Everything ran in a browser on a computer. That really limited the whole “passive” idea.
Since then, they’ve launched an Android app. You can find it on the Google Play Store, which is more convenient than it was at first, when you had to download it directly from the website. They’ve also released a desktop version, if you prefer to use it on your computer.
The app isn’t complicated. You get used to it quickly, which is all that matters for something that runs in the background.
If you have an iPhone, this isn’t for you. There’s no iOS version.
Is Grass worth it?
It’s not a bad platform. But it has one big problem: it doesn’t pay out in cash.
That changes everything for a lot of the people who end up on it. If you looked at Grass as a way to make passive income, with no effort and no investment, well, technically, that’s exactly what it is. You leave the program running; it uses the bandwidth you weren’t using anyway, and you earn a little something. The system works.
The problem is that “something” turns into crypto, not cash. There’s no other payment option right now. If you’re already active in this space, it’s simple. If you’re not (and most people aren’t), you’re left with rewards you don’t know what to do with.
Earnings come in slowly. It’s not the kind of platform where you sign up on Tuesday and send money to your family by Thursday. It requires patience and realistic expectations, or you might as well ignore it from the start.
If you want something more concrete, with real payouts and without depending on crypto exchange rates, I’ve also tested a list of 10 apps that pay out directly, with no investment required. Some perform decently right from the start (compared to Grass, at least).
Have you tried Grass? Share your thoughts in the comments