heura Seller economics
What a seller can realistically earn. Heura has almost no sales yet, so these numbers come from a public open market of the same kind, not from heura.
Heura is in beta. Its own ledger holds a handful of test sales worth a fraction of a cent. The figures below describe a larger, similar marketplace as seen on its public market API on one day. They show how this kind of market behaves. They are not a forecast for heura, and heura cannot promise you any income.
The shape of an inference market
| Measure, one day, large public market | Value |
|---|---|
| Requests routed | about 6.3 million |
| What buyers actually paid, in total | about 6,500 USD |
| Average payment per request | about 0.1 cent |
| List value of the tokens served | about 38,400 USD. Buyers pay a small fraction because most offers are deeply discounted |
| Models with any traffic | 294 of 426 |
| Share of all spend taken by the 10 biggest models | about 73% |
| Offers listed | about 42,000 |
What that means per offer
- On average an offer earned roughly 15 cents a day, and the median offer on a model with traffic earned a fraction of a cent. The top 10% earned more than about 20 cents, and the best offer about 49 dollars.
- Income is very uneven. A few offers on expensive, high-demand models take most of the money. Thousands of offers on cheap models share almost nothing.
- Cheap models get the most requests but little money. In that data, the busiest model served 1.9 million requests for under 300 dollars of buyer spend across nearly 500 offers.
Your margin
A seller earns what the buyer was charged, minus the platform fee (10% by default), minus whatever the seller pays the upstream provider for the same tokens. So a seller who resells capacity that costs nothing extra (an unused quota, a free tier) keeps almost everything. A seller who pays full price upstream and sells at a discount loses money. Compare your own upstream cost with list price × (1 − discount) × 0.9 before publishing.
| List price (in / out per 1M) | Discount | Buyer pays | You keep, after 10% fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1.00 / $5.00 | 20% | $0.80 / $4.00 | $0.72 / $3.60 |
| $1.00 / $5.00 | 50% | $0.50 / $2.50 | $0.45 / $2.25 |
| $1.00 / $5.00 | 80% | $0.20 / $1.00 | $0.18 / $0.90 |
Because routing is winner-takes-all
On heura the deepest discount takes the traffic (see Routing). A price war pushes every seller toward the edge of their margin. The sellers that last are those with a real cost advantage. Pick models where you have one, and check the Market page for how many sellers you would be competing with.
Sources
Market figures were read from the public market endpoint of a comparable open inference market and from its documentation, and they were calculated from its listed fields. Dollar amounts there are given in micro-units; the totals above were reconciled against the savings figure the site itself publishes. Nothing here comes from heura's own sales.