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Fleet compute
Later, a job that is too heavy for this machine will be able to rent compute from the Tether fleet and run here anyway. That rental is not offered yet. There is no price, no account, and no way to join a list from this page.
What follows is only the machinery that already exists, and the rule the bill will follow when rental exists. Nothing on this page starts a job or contacts a machine.
The billing rule
What will be billed is time this machine measured
A borrowed interval is the finish time minus the start time, both read from the clock on the machine that asked for the work. A donor cannot hand in a CPU figure, a flop count, or a price, and a reservation a provider claimed is not a measurement. A span the client clock cannot re-check is refused, not rounded into a bill.
What exists today
Three read-only views, no rental
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Borrowed seconds, per donor
tether usage reads the borrowed-time log on this machine and prints seconds per donor for today, the last 7 days, and all time. It takes only --json. It never writes, and a log it cannot re-read prints an empty summary instead of a guessed total.
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The live borrow, per donor
tether donor-stats reads the store on this machine and prints, per donor, cores, memory, OS, units out, units returned, the rate, the share, the speedup and the efficiency. It always prints one JSON snapshot; its flags only point it at other files, never at a mode. It never dispatches, and a figure it cannot read is written as null rather than as zero.
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The donor live view
The status dashboard has a Donors panel. It shows whether each paired machine is qualified, the measured time per unit, and how many units are out now. A figure the store cannot price reads "not measured". It never reads as zero, and it is never filled in with a stand-in.
Measured, not claimed
What the fabric measured
Every figure below comes from one committed record, produced by an interleaved paired run: local-only and borrowed, alternating, in the same minute. The record names what it ran on. A record this page cannot read makes the build refuse, rather than printing a number nobody measured.
Speedup, median
—×
spread —–—× over — pairs
Efficiency
—%
of the linear ceiling with — workers
Donors
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job —
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The scaling record could not be read, so no figure is shown. The build refuses rather than printing a number nobody measured.The record is fleet-scaling.json, generated by tools/tether_fleet_scaling_run.py and checked by tools/tether_fleet_scaling.py at build time.
One run, unit by unit
Where each unit ran, and what the borrow was checked against
Every bar below is one test unit of a single recorded run: its own measured seconds, the machine that ran it, and its verdict. The record is a diagnostic loopback campaign, so the donor is a second worker on the same box, and the record itself says it is not a remote-donor speedup. This section therefore reports placement and verification, never a speedup.
Units
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run here, — on the donor
Answers cross-compared
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— named as disagreed
Wall, borrowed run
—s
local-only arm, same sample —s
The record counts the duplicate answers it compared between the two machines, and names only the ones that disagreed. It does not name the units it compared, so no borrowed bar can claim to have been verified; each borrowed bar says so in words.
The campaign's own load contract refused this sample as a speedup:
- solid: this machine
- hatched: the donor
- outlined: a failing verdict
- dashed edge: cross-check not recorded
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The run record could not be read, so no unit is shown. The build refuses rather than printing a unit nobody measured.The record is fleet-timeline.json, generated by tether_fleet_timeline.py from one committed campaign row and checked at build time. Seconds are printed to two decimals; each row's detail shows the record's four-decimal value.
The price rule
You pay for measured saved seconds, not for hours held
Every other compute marketplace bills the time an instance was held, priced by the seller. This one bills the time the fleet actually saved you: the local-only wall of a job minus the wall the same job took with donors, both measured on this machine, in interleaved pairs of the same job. A job the fleet made slower costs nothing, and the bill cannot go below zero.
Rate
$—/s
published list rate, not a measurement
Saved per job, median
—s
measured range —–—s
Cost of that job
$—
derived: rate x saved seconds
A renter's quote from history
A quote for a new job is derived from the measured one below. It scales the measured walls linearly, so it is an ESTIMATE and is labelled as one; the measured figures it scales from are shown unchanged beside it.
— units: estimate would cost $— and save —s (measured: —s)
A donor's earnings from the same job
Each donor is credited the measured saving times the share of the job it ran. The local machine is a worker too and is never paid: a credit to yourself is not a payment. These are derived figures at the published rate, not a payout record.
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The rent record could not be read, so no price is shown. The build refuses rather than printing a number nobody measured. The measured job was not faster with the fleet, so its price is zero.The record is fleet-rent.json, derived by tether_fleet_rent.py from the same committed measurement the section above publishes.
What this page will not do
- Name a price. No price has been measured, so none is shown.
- Offer capacity for sale, a price per borrowed second, or a number of machines you could rent. The measured section above reports what one job did on the machines named there; it is not an offer of capacity.
- Collect an email address. This site has no backend and no waitlist.
- Accept a rental. There is no button here that spends money or reserves a machine.
Core-hour rates
What a borrowed core-hour costs, from each machine's own price row
A rental is billed per busy core-hour at the published monthly price of the bundle the machine actually is, spread over the core-hours that bundle can deliver in a 730-hour month. An owned machine is billed its vendor-published wall watts at the tariff below. Every rate names its source; a machine without a price row is listed as unpriced, never as free.
| Machine | Basis | Rate per core-hour | Source |
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The rate table could not be read, so no rate is shown. An unread record never becomes a price.The record is fleet-rates.json, derived by tether_energy_cost.py from the price book each rate names as its source.