Pricing

This guide provides instructions on managing pricing models.

Access Storage > Pricing.

A pricing model is a group of rules where each rule associates a price to certains types of deals. There is no limit on the number of rules per pricing model.

When a new deal proposal is reaching the pricing engine, the rules engine look for the first matching pricing rule, verify the price and exit with a decision. Rules are processed top to bottom.

Flow chart #

Default pricing model #

It’s a special pricing applying to :

• Deals from Filecoin address not attached to any registered clients.
• Any client with no specific pricing model set.

The default pricing model cannot be removed, first set another pricing model as default before deletion.

Create new model #

Click on the Create a new model button at the top.

1. Pricing name #

For a more granular understanding of the pricing model, you have to set the desired name. As an illustration, you can specify a name such as All 16 GiB verified deals at 0

2. Fallback behavior #

This feature is interesting, when a specific client, have a specific pricing or specific type of deals on top of what you offer by default.

The incoming deal is first evaluated against the client pricing model, if no rules match, it’s evaluated against the default pricing model.

The “Fallback to default pricing model” setting is ignored when a pricing is set as the default pricing model.

3. Rules creation #

To match a rule, a deal needs first to fill all conditions except the price, then the price is compared.

• Type: Deal TransferType : graphSync, HTTP, libP2P, etc, offline …
• Verified: Verified(Fil+) or unverified deals
• Size: Padded Deal size range (PieceSize)
• Duration: Deal duration(EndEpoch-StartEpoch)
• Price: Minimum price in FIL/GiB/Epoch.

Manage existing models #

Each pricing model listed offers several options:

• View: Quick access to the pricing rules.
• Edit
• Remove
• Set as default: Establishes the chosen pricing model as default.