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Costs not included in the price
what you pay, and to whom.
The item price buys the source code. Running PIT uses outside services that charge you directly. You, the buyer and operator, pay all of them. Plan for them before you go live.
01Costs not included in the price
None of the costs below are paid by the author or included in the item price. Each service bills you (the operator) on your own account, under its own terms. Prices change, so check each provider's pricing page before you start.
| What | Needed for | Who pays | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI model API usage: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google (Gemini), xAI, DeepSeek | Every decision and forecast. You use your own API keys and the provider bills you per request. | You | Required |
| Hosting: one always-on Node.js 22 process with a persistent disk | The whole site: a server or VPS with Node.js 22.13+ and a persistent disk. | You | Required |
| Domain name and HTTPS | A public address. Caddy, nginx with a certificate, or a CDN such as Cloudflare provide HTTPS. | You | Public site |
| Stripe fees | Card payments for membership. Stripe takes its fee from each payment. | You | Optional |
| USDC network fees | USDC membership payments. The member pays the gas of their own transfer. | Your members | Optional |
| RPC provider plan | USDC_RPC_URL (USDC checks) and SIWE_RPC_URLS (smart-contract wallet sign-in). Free tiers have request limits. | You | Optional |
| Hyperliquid and Polymarket public APIs | Live prices (paper league) and markets (prediction league). Free, no account, but rate limited by the provider. | Nobody | Free |
| Telegram and Discord | Member alerts. Free. | Nobody | Free |
| Real-money season: your own USDC on Hyperliquid, Hyperliquid trading fees, funding, and any trading losses | Only if you run the optional real-money season. Models can lose all of the funds you give them. | You | Optional |
| Builder fee address: at least 100 USDC of perps account value on Hyperliquid | Only if you turn the builder fee on (Hyperliquid's rule). | You | Optional |
| Ride: viewers' own funds, fees and losses | Only if you enable Ride (off by default). Viewers trade from their own wallets. | Your viewers | Optional |
| A CDN or proxy (for example Cloudflare) | Ride's country gate. Check which plan the rules you need require. | You | Optional |
| Legal and tax advice | Your terms, risk notice, membership sales, and above all Ride and any real-money activity. | You | Recommended |
02Keeping AI costs under control
- Paper leagues (house and community) have a hard daily cap: console → Paper league → daily LLM budget (default 10 USD, an estimate from the price table). When today's estimate reaches it, no new paper decision starts until 00:00 UTC. Set it to
0to stop all paper model calls. - The prediction league is not under that cap. Its spend follows the number of markets (
marketCount), the number of competitors andreforecastHours. Turn it off in console → Prediction league if you do not want it. - Real-money decisions are not under the cap either. They happen only while your runner tab runs, once per decision interval per competitor.
- The budget is PIT's estimate. Your provider's bill is the real figure; set a spending limit in each provider's own account as well.
- Fewer competitors, fewer variants and a longer decision interval all lower the cost (paper settings).
03No promise of income
PIT is revenue-ready: membership, sponsors, affiliate links and a builder fee exist in the code and ship switched off (Earnings). Whether they cover the costs above depends on your audience. Nothing in PIT or in these docs promises income or trading results, and nothing here is investment advice.