Market prices

Your price is neither high nor low on its own. It is high or low against what identical cards are renting for right now, and against how many of them are sitting idle.

The three numbers

Median — the middle price for that card class on that marketplace. The median rather than the average, because a handful of absurd listings would drag an average somewhere nobody actually rents.

Occupancy — the share of those machines currently rented. A busy market tolerates a higher price; a quiet one does not.

Depth — how many offers the median is computed over. This is the number that tells you whether to trust the other two.

A median over a handful of offers is noise

With only a few offers, one seller leaving moves the median by tens of percent. The pricing engine refuses to suggest a price in that situation rather than acting on a number that will look different tomorrow — and the panel tells you the market was too thin instead of staying silent.

The comparison that does not work

Vast and Clore medians are not directly comparable

They sample different populations. Vast’s figure covers free machines only; Clore’s covers the whole market, rented ones included.

A Clore median will therefore usually sit lower for the same card, and reading that as “Clore pays less” is wrong — it is a different measurement, not a different price level.

Compare Vast against Vast over time, and Clore against Clore. To choose between marketplaces, use what your own machines actually earned on each.

Where the numbers come from

Sources are polled every half hour. A card class outside the popular-card catalogue, and not named by telemetry anywhere in your fleet, has no market index — the panel says so rather than showing an empty chart.

Some marketplaces publish only a floor for a class (“from $0.18/h”). A floor is not a median, and a monthly estimate cannot be built from it. That is stated on the row rather than silently substituted.

The calculatorTurning a median into a monthly number, after electricity.