Uptime & Fees
How we define downtime
Section titled “How we define downtime”Meshive’s definition of downtime is intentionally narrow, because we want to penalize only the situations that actually hurt clients.
A minute counts as downtime only when both of the following are true:
- The machine has at least one active client pod, and
- The machine is fully unresponsive — for example, network off or full shutdown — so the control plane cannot reach it.
Everything else is free:
- No active pods on the machine → network off or shutdown is not counted. Take your machine offline whenever it is idle without worry.
- A GPU partially fails (e.g., “fallen off the bus”) while a pod is running → not counted as machine downtime. The platform handles the pod-level consequences separately and does not punish the host for it.
Granularity
Section titled “Granularity”Downtime is sampled once per minute. There is no fractional-minute accounting — either a minute is up or it is down.
No central verification
Section titled “No central verification”There is no manual “verified / deverified” gating by Meshive staff. Your uptime rate is computed objectively from the per-minute samples above, and your fee tier adjusts automatically based on it. Better uptime → better take-rate, with no human in the loop.
Fee tier
Section titled “Fee tier”Your uptime rate is computed as a lifetime cumulative ratio — uptime / (uptime + downtime) — not a rolling window. Every new host also starts with a small seeded penalty (≈ 7.2 hours of pre-counted downtime). With that seed, continuous clean operation moves you up the tiers on roughly this schedule:
| Tier | Min uptime | Platform commission | Host take-rate | Reached after (continuous uptime) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRONZE | (default) | 20% | 80% | day 1 (starting tier) |
| SILVER | ≥ 99.5% | 17.5% | 82.5% | ~2 months |
| GOLD | ≥ 99.66% | 15% | 85% | ~3 months |
| PLATINUM | ≥ 99.75% | 12% | 88% | ~4 months |
| TITANIUM | ≥ 99.83% | 7.5% | 92.5% | ~6 months |
The mapping is monotonic — higher uptime always means a strictly better tier, never worse. Tier transitions are evaluated continuously: as soon as your lifetime rate crosses a threshold, your effective take-rate updates automatically on the next billed minute.
New host promotion
Section titled “New host promotion”Register a machine at any point in 2026 and you lock in our lowest fee — 7.5% (Titanium-tier rate) — for the first 6 months from registration, no matter your starting reliability score. This applies per machine and is fixed at registration time.
The schedule above is designed to hand off cleanly: if you keep the machine running without interruption, your lifetime uptime reaches the Titanium tier right around the 6-month mark — so when the promotion ends, your 7.5% rate simply continues based on your earned tier. If you don’t, your fee returns to whatever tier your uptime has earned.