Pricing & Economics

The cost in credits for any given model on Peerwave is determined by how long a given model takes to run. If a model is twice as slow to run, it will cost twice as much to run. We also compare data between different GPUs to ensure that credit pricing is fair regardless of what type of GPU you have.

The price of a credit in dollars is determined by taking a look at all open-weights inference providers (AWS, GCP, Together AI, etc.). We convert their pricing to credits, and then take the median of those prices.

This allows us to ensure that the pricing of the network is competitive, but also fair for providers regardless of what model they are running.

Pricing for credits is measured in credits per cent and is currently ... credits/¢. To get the current value, you can use the pricing_info tool. We will recalculate this value monthly.

The total pool of credits is fixed at 1,000,000,000 and Peerwave possesses all of them to start. When you purchase credits, you purchase them from Peerwave's balance of credits. The pool of credits is fixed to ensure that users can't saturate the network by hoarding credits.

When Peerwave no longer has enough credits for people to purchase them, Peerwave will buy credits from users to fulfill the order. This dollar amount will be usable for you to purchase credits from Peerwave in the future but is not currently valid for cash withdrawal.

To discourage people from speculating on the value of credits, we will limit how many credits any individual is allowed to purchase. This also prevents large corporations from purchasing a controlling share of credits and taking over the network for large scale tasks.

When users use credits on a Peerwave app, surcharges are added to pay out the Peerwave network and to pay the builders of the app. These are percentage based and on top of the number of credits sent to the hardware provider to ensure that they are always fairly compensated for their computation.

Peerwave collects a 5% fee on model requests and builders collect a 2% fee by default. However, builders can modify their fee freely, whereas Peerwave's fee is determined by community vote.

For example, if a provider would charge you 100 credits for your request, Peerwave would collect 5 credits, the builder 2 credits, and the user would ultimately pay 107 credits.

• Providers: You're always paid fairly based on actual compute provided
• Users: You get AI services significantly cheaper than elsewhere
• Developers: You earn credits when people use your tools

If you have questions about Peerwave's economics, join us on Discord.