Economics
How the money works.
Node operators are paid for the work their machines do. Semios Inc is paid for matching that work and keeping the record. Everyone can see what a job cost.
Open where it counts.
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Open node software
Semios Inc will release the node software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You will be able to run it, read it, change it and keep it.
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Open protocols
The way nodes talk to each other is open. Any system that speaks the protocol can connect.
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Free for your own use
Running a node for yourself costs nothing. You pay only when you use capacity that someone else owns.
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What Semios Inc keeps
The router that matches jobs to machines across the federation is Semios Inc software. Operators and organizations use it under license.
Every job is a handshake.
Billing follows the handshake. No signed close, no bill.
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Open
Before any work starts, both sides agree on the job, the price and the limits.
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Work
The job runs on the chosen machine. The node meters the time and the energy the job uses.
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Close
Both sides sign the record of what happened. The bill is made from that signed record.
Metered in joules. Priced in dollars.
Every job reports the energy it used, in joules. Where the hardware has an energy counter, the node reads it. Where it does not, the node estimates from the machine’s rated power. The record says which method was used.
Joules are a measurement, not a currency. All prices are in US dollars.
What a job costs.
Each line below appears on the receipt for the job.
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Energy
The joules the job used, at the node’s price for power.
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Machine time
The time the job held the hardware, at the node’s rate for that hardware.
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Model use
If you bring your own model accounts, you pay the model provider directly. Semios Inc adds no markup.
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Coordination fee
The Semios Inc fee for matching the job and keeping the record, shown as its own line.
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Results that cannot be checked
If a result cannot be checked, it is billed at half rate.
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Example
A job runs for 10 minutes on a GPU that draws 700 watts. That is 420,000 joules, or about 0.12 kilowatt hours. At 10 cents per kilowatt hour, the energy costs about 1 cent. At 2 dollars per hour, the machine time costs about 33 cents. The coordination fee is added on its own line.
How Semios Inc makes money.
We do not mark up model use. A router paid a markup does better by routing worse. We do not sell your data. We do not charge you to leave.
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Coordination
A fee on each job that closes across the federation. When a job does not close, Semios Inc is not paid.
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Licenses
Organizations and data center operators license the platform to run it for their own work and their own clients.
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Reserved capacity
Reserved GPU capacity in partner data centers, sold under contract. Hardware is added only against signed contracts.
How node operators make money.
Larger sites can license the platform and serve their own clients on it. Payment is for work done. Nothing on this page is an offer of securities.
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Offer your capacity
Connect your machine to the federation. Set what you offer: the hardware, the hours and your rates.
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Receive jobs
The router sends each job to the machine that can do it for the least energy for the value delivered. Efficient machines get more work.
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Get paid
You are paid in US dollars for each job that closes, at the agreed price, less the coordination fee.
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Check every payment
Your node keeps its own signed record of every job. You can match each payment to that record.