Referrals

Share your referral link. When a person opens a Liquid Inference account with it, you earn a share of the fees that Liquid Inference collects on that person's inference. You earn credit that you can spend on inference.

Share your link

Choose Referrals in the sidebar, or open /referrals. The page shows these items:

• Your link.
• The number of people that you referred.
• The terms that they joined under.
• The total that they earned you, and the amount for each month.

It does not show who they are or what each of them spends.

The link is a page of the app with your code, for example /sign-up?ref=abcde12345. The code works on every page of the app. The app keeps it until the visitor opens an account.

What you earn

You earn two shares of the fees of Liquid Inference. Each share lasts for a set number of months from the day the referred person joined:

Liquid Inference sets the rates and the period, and can change them for future referrals. The Referrals page shows the terms that apply now and the terms of each referral. Both shares for a person become fixed when that person joins.

For example, you referred Bob, and Bob referred Carol. Your share of the fees of Carol is the second-tier rate that applied when Carol joined. It lasts for the period of Carol. It stops earlier if your referral of Bob stops first.

These rules decide which fees count:

• The fees of a person count from the time that person first pays money in. A deposit counts unless it is a promotional credit or a transfer between workspaces. Inference that ran before that time, on the signup credit, earns nothing.
• You earn a share of the Liquid Inference fee only. The provider's part of a charge earns nothing.
• A job that the exchange credits back to the buyer earns nothing. For example, this occurs when a provider fails after output started.

The inference of a person is each job that runs in a workspace that the person created, whoever sent the job. This includes jobs that a provider that you run serves. On these jobs, you earn your share of the fee and your provider earnings.

The discount for a referred person

A person who joins with a referral link pays less of the fee. The default discount is 10% of the fee. Liquid Inference can change the rate. It applies for the same period as the referrer's share.

• The discount comes off the fee only. The provider earns the same.
• The exchange.charge block of the response shows the fee after the discount in fee_usd, and the discount in fee_discount_usd. The field fee_discount_usd is absent when there is no discount.
• A referred person pays a lower fee, so your share of that fee is lower too.

How credits are paid

• Liquid Inference pays credits one time each day, for the previous UTC day. It starts to pay at least one hour after the day ends.
• It rounds each credit down to the nearest nano-dollar.
• Credits go to your personal workspace, which Liquid Inference created when you opened your account. They show as Referral credit in your credits.
• You can spend credits on inference, as you spend all other balance. You cannot withdraw them, and Liquid Inference does not pay them out as cash. The signup credit works the same way.
• The balance shows credits as credited, separate from money that you paid in. Inference uses credit first.
• The Referrals page shows credits as monthly totals. It lists the last 12 months, and a month only when three or more people earned you credits in it. Thus the spending of one person does not show. The estimate of unpaid credit follows the same rule.

Rules

• Liquid Inference records a referral only when the person opens the account. You cannot refer a person who already has an account. Nobody can change who referred a person.
• You cannot refer yourself.
• A link with a code that does not exist still opens an account, without a referrer.