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Key Marketplace Features

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1. Capability Discovery

Gateways and orchestrators list:
  • AI model support
  • Versioning and model weights
  • Pipeline compatibility
  • GPU type and compute class
Applications can programmatically choose the best provider.

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2. Dynamic Pricing

Pricing can vary by:
  • GPU class
  • Model complexity
  • Latency SLA
  • Throughput requirements
  • Region
Gateways expose pricing APIs for transparent selection.

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3. Performance Competition

Orchestrators compete on:
  • Speed
  • Reliability
  • GPU quality
  • Cost efficiency
Gateways compete on:
  • Routing quality
  • Supported features
  • Latency
  • Developer ecosystem fit
This creates a healthy decentralized market.

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4. BYOC Integration

Any container-based pipeline can be brought into the marketplace:
  • Run custom AI models
  • Run ML workflows
  • Execute arbitrary compute
  • Support enterprise workloads
Gateways advertise BYOC offerings; orchestrators execute containers.

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Marketplace Benefits

  • Developer choice — choose the best model, price, and performance
  • Economic incentives — better nodes earn more work
  • Scalability — network supply grows independently of demand
  • Innovation unlock — new models and pipelines can be added instantly
  • Decentralization — no single operator controls the workload flow

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Summary

The Marketplace turns Livepeer into a competitive, discoverable, real-time AI compute layer.
  • Gateways expose services
  • Orchestrators execute them
  • Applications choose the best fit