Earnings estimator
What could your Mac earn?
Choose your Mac and its available hours to see what it could earn.
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When work stays local, so do the earnings.
When it can, Lithi gives work to approved Macs near the business that sent it, so your Mac can help businesses in your area.
Lithi sets aside 50% of eligible revenue for the Macs that did the work, once the work is accepted and the customer has paid. When those Macs are near the customer, that money is earned by people and businesses in the same community.
That share is split among all the Macs that helped. What your Mac earns depends on how often it’s available and how much accepted work it helps complete.
- Mac owners’ share
- Liters of cooling water
Where the rest of the revenue goes
You don't find customers, bill them or chase payments. Lithi does that with its share, so the pool can grow as more customers join.
- Mac providers
50%
Shared by the Macs that helped complete accepted work.
- Mac invites
Up to 5%
10% of what an invited Mac earns, paid from Lithi's share, not from the pool.
- Running and growing Lithi
The rest
Finding and billing customers, routing and checking every task, support and payouts, and advertising that brings in more customers.
When an eligible introduction brought the customer, that payment also comes from Lithi's share, not from the pool.
Each period's earnings statement shows your Mac's share of the pool for the accepted work it helped complete, after the customer has paid.
Illustrative example
How one job becomes earnings.
| Question | Example | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| 01How big is the job? | 50,000 translations: about 135 million tokens to write | 5,000 documents, each into 10 languages. The customer’s Compute Kit counts it all in tokens, the small pieces of words and data AI reads and writes. Text, scans, audio and video each have their own counting rule, so the same file always gives the same count. |
| 02What does the customer approve? | A quote and a 48-hour deadline | Because every token is counted first, the customer sees the whole price before anything runs, and approves it. The last 2 hours are kept for checks and return. |
| 03How fast does one Mac work? | About 25 tokens a second, or about 33 translations an hour | It depends on the Mac and the language. |
| 04How many Mac-hours does it take? | About 1,950 Mac-hours | 1,500 hours of translation, plus 30% spare for checks and for Macs that go offline. |
| 05Which Macs do the work? | About 43 at once, nearby where possible | Lithi spreads the 1,950 Mac-hours over the 46 working hours, using approved Macs near the customer when it can. Change the deadline above: the Mac-hours stay the same, and only the number of Macs moves. |
| 06How is the work checked? | A sample is re-run on a second Mac | Only work that passes its checks counts toward earnings. |
| 07How is it returned? | In the final 2 hours | Results are combined, encrypted and sent back to the customer. |
| 08How does my Mac earn? | A share of the 50% pool | Your share follows accepted work your Mac completed once the customer has paid. |
Assumes each translation is about 2,700 tokens long and one Mac writes about 25 tokens a second. Real jobs are counted from the customer’s own files before they’re quoted. This illustrates work and capacity; earnings are approved only for accepted work after the customer has paid, under the signed policy.
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