Node operators

Turn an idle GPU into income

Run the QueraIS node, serve open-weight LLMs to the marketplace, and keep 95% of every job — paid in $QAIS. You set your own price; the network routes work to you based on price, reputation, and speed. Like BitTorrent seeding, but you get paid.

Get the node →Staking & rewards

Hardware tiers

From a gaming card to a datacenter GPU — your hardware decides which models you can serve and how many jobs you win.

Tier	GPU	VRAM	Serves	Est. earnings
Bronze	GTX 1070 / RX 5700	8 GB	Llama-3-8B, Mistral-7B (Q4)	$7–25 / mo
Silver	RTX 3080 / 4070	12–16 GB	8B FP16, 13B (Q8), Qwen2-7B	$25–95 / mo
Gold	RTX 4090 / 2× 3090	24 GB+	All Silver + Llama-3-70B (Q4)	$75–255 / mo
Platinum	A100 / A6000 / H100	40 GB+	Everything, full precision	$400–4,000+ / mo

Earnings are rough estimates at 30–40% utilization and current testnet rates — not a promise. Real income depends on demand, your price, uptime, and reputation.

Estimate your earnings

Requests / dayAvg tokens / requestYour price / 1k tokens (QAIS)

11,400 QAIS / month to you

12,000 gross · 95% yours · 600 protocol fee (5%) · 24,000,000 tokens/mo

Live in about ten minutes

Install & detect. Grab the node from GitHub; it auto-detects your GPU, RAM, and upload speed and recommends a tier.
Connect a wallet. Create a fresh wallet or import one — it receives your $QAIS earnings.
Stake. Lock the minimum $QAIS for your tier (from 100). Stake is your collateral and unlocks higher-value jobs.
Pick models. Choose which open models to serve; downloads resume in the background and are SHA-256 verified.
Go live. Your node announces over libp2p and starts bidding — appearing in the marketplace within a couple of minutes.

node dashboard

🎉 Your node is LIVE
  status:        Active
  tier:          Silver  (stake 500 QAIS)
  models:        llama3.2, mistral-7b
  dashboard:     http://localhost:3000
  today:         $4.28   ·   this month: $127.50

How you earn

95% to you

Each settled job pays the serving node 95%; the protocol keeps 5%.

You set the price

Quote your own per-token price, or let the optional auto-pricer track market and load.

Batched payouts

Earnings accrue in escrow and settle in batches — claim anytime for cents of gas.

What the daemon runs

A single binary handles everything — model management, inference, bidding, P2P, payments, and a local dashboard at localhost:3000.

Inference

llama.cpp by default (GGUF), with optional vLLM / ExLlamaV2 for advanced setups.

Model manager

Registry sync, resumable downloads, SHA-256 integrity, dynamic VRAM load/unload.

Job handler

WebSocket job feed, auto-bid calculator, result packaging, completion reporting.

Safe by default

Auto-pauses bidding when your GPU is busy with other work; staking risk is bounded by clear slashing rules.