Network

Workers and earning

Contribute a GPU to the swarm and earn per job. Native workers wrap a local model for maximum throughput; browser workers run in a tab with zero install.

Worker classes

Native

Wraps a local Ollama install (default a capable ~27B model), advertised to the network as noviq-max-27b. Highest throughput, highest per-job rate.

Browser

Runs a WebGPU model via WebLLM (for example a 7B advertised as noviq-browser-8b). Zero install, lower rate, instant onboarding.

Swarm block (soon)

Loads a single layer block and participates in a sharded pipeline. Activates when the swarm engine ships.

Run a native worker

Install Ollama, pull a model, then start the worker. It opens a WebSocket to the orchestrator and begins accepting jobs.

# 1. install a model runtime and pull a model
ollama pull qwen2.5:27b

# 2. start the NoviQ worker (connects to the orchestrator)
npx @noviq/worker \
  --mode native \
  --model qwen2.5:27b \
  --token $NOVIQ_WORKER_TOKEN

Worker tokens

A worker authenticates with a worker token issued from your account. The token also carries the worker class the orchestrator dispatches against.

Run a browser worker

Open the earn page on a WebGPU-capable browser. The model loads into the tab and the machine becomes a worker for as long as the tab is open - nothing to install, nothing left behind when you close it.

# just open it in a WebGPU browser
https://noviqai.xyz/earn

How you get paid

Earnings are per job, based on the worker class and the completion size. Native jobs pay a base rate plus an amount per thousand completion tokens; browser jobs pay a smaller base plus a smaller per-token amount. The orchestrator records the amount for each job from token counts only.

Native

Roughly $0.10-$0.14 per job (base plus per-1k completion tokens).

Browser

Roughly $0.07 per job (smaller base plus per-1k completion tokens).

Receipt-gated payouts

Paid for real, correct work

Worker payouts release only against a valid correctness and privacy receipt - the same receipt discipline that proves the network ran a job right and kept it private. Doing the work correctly is what earns the payout; there is no reward for a job that cannot produce a valid receipt. See Staking and treasury for where the money comes from.