How provider pay works

What a job pays

• You set a rate per delivered second of video, in whole cents. The buyer is charged your rate, not their cap.
• Gross for a job is your rate × the seconds delivered. An idle hour earns nothing, and a failed job is not charged to the buyer.
• Electricity, the hardware itself, wear, tax, cooling, network and your time are yours to pay. Net can be negative: a machine that waits with the power on and finds little work loses money.
• UserBus has not announced a platform fee.

Payouts are not available yet. Fleet records earnings, but this release moves no money: its payout actions are switched off.

Why there is no monthly figure here

A month’s pay depends on two numbers nobody has yet. The first is how many seconds of video a machine delivers per busy hour, which depends on the model. The closed beta runs one experimental model integration, and the model for a commercial launch has not been selected, so a speed measured today says nothing about it. The second is how much paid work there is: UserBus has no public demand history. Any monthly figure would be invented, so we do not print one.