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Earn Credits

You run a node. It serves requests. You earn credits. Here’s the honest, no-asterisks version of how that works.

The split: 70/30

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For every dollar of inference your node serves, $0.70 lands in your account and $0.30 goes to the platform treasury.

That’s it. No per-node negotiation, no enterprise tier, no rate card you need a sales call to see. If someone paid $0.001 for a request your node answered, you earned $0.0007. The same split applies to everyone.

Where does the 30% go?

Not into a pocket — into bounties. The treasury funds bonus multipliers on under-supplied models, which means part of what the platform takes comes right back to providers as extra pay. More on that below.

Bounties: get paid extra

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A bounty is a bonus multiplier (greater than 1×) attached to a specific model. While it’s active, every successful request your node serves against that model pays you extra — funded from the treasury, not from the consumer.

  • The bonus is your_normal_payout × (multiplier − 1).
  • It runs until the bounty’s budget is spent or it expires, then the model returns to its baseline rate.

Bounties exist to steer compute toward models that need it. If a popular model keeps saturating, the team puts a bounty on it, the effective payout jumps, and new nodes show up to chase it. (Today bounties are set by the platform; consumer-funded “I’ll pay more to prioritize my model” bounties are on the roadmap.)

Staying around pays off

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Token Router is built to reward operators who don’t leave. None of this punishes newcomers — it just compounds for the loyal:

  • Health score. A rolling window of your successes and failures becomes a 0–1 score that breaks ties when two nodes are equally idle.
  • Ramp-up for new nodes. Fresh instances start at a fraction of their declared capacity and scale up over the first week of good behavior. (This is an anti-Sybil measure — spinning up a hundred throwaway nodes won’t unlock a hundred instant payout streams.)
  • Uptime credit. Time online and probe successes both count in your favor.
  • Trust tiers. As your node produces validated tokens, it earns access to higher bounty multipliers. Honest long-term participation is, by design, far more profitable than any quick trick.

Checking your earnings

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Your balance, payout history, and per-instance activity all live in the dashboard. Credits you earn are the same credits you can spend on the gateway — so a busy node can fund your own AI usage entirely.

Keep reading

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