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Earnings: you set the price, 85% stays with you

Commission is 15% and that is the only deduction; we put no hidden margin on top of your price. Below are three utilization scenarios for three configurations, and a net figure with electricity deducted. The numbers are examples — don't decide before putting in your own kWh price.

The payout infrastructure goes live in Phase 1. This page describes today's plan; the payout terms will be written into the host agreement when it ships.

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One deduction: 15% commission.

You set your hourly price. The price the customer sees is the price you wrote; we add nothing on top and go nowhere below. Your earnings accrue by the second and appear line by line in the host panel: which machine, which pod, how many seconds, how much.

Per-second billing, per-second earnings: a 40-second job is recorded as 40 seconds. No rounding up to the hour, no minimum duration charge, no setup fee.
The price suggestion is advice: the panel tells you how far above or below the regional median your price sits. You don't have to apply it, and you can undo it.
You don't pay for seconds that don't work: the customer does not pay for a broken node, and you do not earn from idle seconds. Utilization is not a promise, it is the result of your price and your scorecard.
Electricity is on you: in the calculations below, commission comes off the gross first and electricity second. Internet and hardware depreciation are not in there at all — count those on your own side.
Example earnings — 4× RTX 4090, 60% utilization
Your list price4 × $0.42/hr
Hours worked per month (30 days × 60%)432 hrs
Monthly gross$725.76
Kaldera commission (15%)$108.86
Electricity (1.95 kW × 432 hrs × $0.12)$101.09
Monthly net, electricity deducted$515.81

Illustrative calculation: price, utilization, power draw and kWh price are assumptions; this is not measured revenue.

Worked examples

Three configurations, three utilization scenarios.

A month counts as 30 days = 720 hours. The amounts below are net of commission; electricity is not included — we deduct that in the next table. The utilization scenarios are assumptions: nobody can promise you a particular utilization.

ConfigurationList price40% utilization60% utilization80% utilization
1× RTX 4090 $0.42/hr $102.82/mo $154.22/mo $205.63/mo
4× RTX 4090 $1.68/hr $411.26/mo $616.90/mo $822.53/mo
2× RTX A6000 $1.76/hr $430.85/mo $646.27/mo $861.70/mo

Example / illustrative figures. The math: list price × 720 hrs × utilization × 0.85. Real earnings vary with your price, your region, your card, your scorecard and the demand that month.

Electricity

You haven't "earned" anything until electricity comes off the gross.

The formula is simple: net = (list price × hours worked × 0.85) − (average draw in kW × hours worked × your kWh price). You need two numbers: the average draw of your cards under load, and the kWh price on your own tariff.

ConfigurationAverage drawMonthly consumption at 60%Electricity costNet at 60%
1× RTX 4090 0.55 kW 237.6 kWh $28.51 $125.71/mo
4× RTX 4090 1.95 kW 842.4 kWh $101.09 $515.81/mo
2× RTX A6000 0.70 kW 302.4 kWh $36.29 $609.98/mo

Example / illustrative: a kWh price of $0.12 was assumed, and non-card system consumption was added to the draw. If your own tariff differs the result changes completely — in Turkish tariffs the differences between consumption bands and taxes are large.

Idle consumption is not in the math: a machine that is powered on but taking no work still draws electricity (roughly 50–100 W). On a machine that stays on all year, that item is not small.
Cooling can be a separate item: if room air conditioning runs in the summer, write its consumption into the card's cost as well.
A power limit is a tool: on most workloads, capping the card costs little performance and cuts consumption noticeably. But it also lowers the benchmark result; the balance between your score and your cost is yours to strike.
If the math doesn't work, don't switch it on: hosting a single old card in a region with expensive electricity can lose money. We owe you that sentence; measure and then decide.

Payouts

The period closes on Friday, the money goes to your account.

Weekly period

Your earnings accrue by the second; the weekly period closes every Friday. Commission is deducted and the remainder is transferred to your identity-verified account. For every period you download a line-by-line statement from the panel: which machine, which pod, how many seconds, at which price.

Hosts in Türkiye

Payment is made by domestic bank transfer. The account name must match the identity verified at registration; no payment is made to a third party's account.

Hosts outside Türkiye

Payment is made through Stripe Connect; KYC and the payout flow run from there. The supported countries are limited to Stripe's coverage and are shown during registration.

The tax side

We make no promises about your tax obligations. Whether you are an individual or a company, and which document you have to issue, depends on your situation, and the right answer comes from your accountant. Our job is to make the receipt/invoice process clear and give you a document for every payout; when we have settled that process it will be written here.

Kaldera is not yet an incorporated company and the payout infrastructure goes live in Phase 1. This section describes today's plan; it is not a commitment. Last updated: 29 August 2026

Next step

If the numbers hold, look at what drives utilization.

Every line on this page rests on a utilization assumption. Two things drive utilization: your price and your scorecard. The scorecard is computed from four metrics, its weights are published, and it sets the placement order directly.

; the earnings examples are illustrative, not measured results.