◈ Creator economy

Built for audiences
that arrive
all at once.

Creator businesses are spiky by nature. A post lands, a drop goes live, a stream starts, and the traffic arrives in minutes rather than months. Compute is billed by the second, so you pay for the rush when it happens and not for the capacity you would have needed to buy in advance on the leading cloud.

Used by independent creators, creator tooling startups and the platforms that serve creators at scale.

Per-second
Billing for the rush
30%
Under the leading cloud on GPU hours
Git
To live storefront
Zero
Commitments

What this looks like in practice

◆Creator storefronts and membership sites◆Video and audio transcoding◆AI editing, captioning and thumbnail tools◆Fan community and messaging back ends◆Payout and earnings reporting services◆Link-in-bio and personal sites◆Media libraries and archives◆Creator storefronts and membership sites◆Video and audio transcoding◆AI editing, captioning and thumbnail tools◆Fan community and messaging back ends◆Payout and earnings reporting services◆Link-in-bio and personal sites◆Media libraries and archives
What holds true here

Four things you stop arguing about

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Pay for the spike, not the year

Machines billed by the second scale up when an audience arrives and stop billing when it leaves.

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GPUs for media and AI

Transcoding, captioning and generative tools on L40S, A100 and H100 instances at 30% under the leading cloud on-demand.

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Sites from a repository

Storefronts and creator pages built and hosted by Panel, on domains registered in the same account.

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A platform for a team of one

Free allowances cover a small creator business, and the same platform carries it if it becomes a large one.

The shift

Virality stops being a billing risk

For a creator platform, the best day of the year can also be the most expensive. Reserved capacity makes the quiet days costly; on-demand the leading cloud makes the busy ones costly. Per-second billing at a lower price is the arrangement that fits how attention actually works.

The usual arrangement
  • ✕Capacity bought for a launch that might not land
  • ✕GPU tools priced out of reach for small creators
  • ✕Separate providers for site, media and domain
  • ✕A surprise bill after a good week
  • ✕Infrastructure decisions made by whoever is free
What replaces it
  • ✓Capacity that follows the audience by the second
  • ✓GPU hours at 30% under the leading cloud on-demand
  • ✓Site, media, data and domain in one account
  • ✓A bill you can explain from the traffic
  • ✓A published price for every decision
What you can count on

Stated plainly, and qualified

30%
Under the leading cloud on GPU hours
Same GPU, on-demand price
Per-second
Machine billing
No reservation or minimum term
Included
Starter allowances
Databases, storage and repositories
One
Bill
Site, media, models and domains
Closer in

Creator Economy, specifically

The drop that does not fall over

A limited release goes live and everyone arrives in the same minute. The storefront is on Panel and Nexus, the inventory in CosmoBase, the order queue in Cloud Services. Capacity is there when the audience is, billed by the second, and gone when they have checked out. The bill afterwards reads like the traffic graph.

Media without a render farm

Transcode and caption on GPU instances for as long as the job takes, then release them.

AI tools creators will pay for

Build editing, captioning and writing tools on AI inference billed per token, at 30% under the leading cloud’s model service for the same model.

Communities that stay responsive

Messaging and community back ends on Compute Instances, close to the fans using them.

Earnings everyone can check

Earnings and reporting services backed by CosmoBase, with a record of every change to how they are calculated.

Against the leading cloud

Creator Economy on Compute, against the leading cloud

L40S GPU hour
$1.30/hr
Leading cloud $1.86/hr · Same GPU (L40S)
30% less
A100 GPU hour
$1.92/hr
Leading cloud $2.74/hr · Same GPU (A100 40 GB)
30% less
4 vCPU / 8 GB server
$0.0941/hr
Leading cloud $0.1344/hr · Its cheapest machine with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB
30% less
Build minutes
$0.007 / build minute
Leading cloud $0.01 / build minute · Managed hosting build minutes
30% less

Compared with the leading cloud's own published on-demand prices, US East. Every comparison.

Questions we are actually asked

Answers without the hedging

Is this for individual creators or platforms?+

Both. An individual creator can run a site and a storefront inside the free allowances. A platform serving many creators runs the same products at larger scale, on the same published prices.

What happens to cost if something goes viral?+

Usage rises and so does the bill, by the second and at published prices. Nothing jumps to a higher tier, and nothing stays elevated after the traffic has gone.

Is video storage and delivery cheaper than the leading cloud?+

We claim 30% under the leading cloud only on machines, databases, build minutes, tokens and support. Storage and bandwidth prices are published on the pricing page for you to compare directly.

Can we move from the leading cloud gradually?+

Yes. Most teams move GPU work first because the saving is immediate, then sites and data once the first move has proven itself.

Other industries

Where else this goes

AI Agents

Run agents, the tools they call and the models behind them on one platform, billed by the token and the second, for less than the same work costs on the leading cloud.

Customer Acquisition

Host the landing pages, attribution pipelines and onboarding flows that bring customers in, and spend less on the infrastructure than you would on the leading cloud.

Marketing

Run campaign sites, personalisation, content pipelines and marketing data on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines and models.

Lead Generation

Run the forms, enrichment jobs, scoring models and routing that turn interest into leads, for less than the same infrastructure costs on the leading cloud.

Sales

Run CRMs, sales data, call analysis and AI assistants on one platform, priced under the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

SaaS

Run your product, its databases, CI and AI features on one platform that costs less than the leading cloud for the same machines, databases and models.

Start where it matters most

Begin with one workload. Keep what you have running. Decide whether to continue once you have seen it carry something real.

No migration required to begin. Nothing to tear down if you stop.