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Orchestrators earn from two distinct sources: protocol rewards (LPT inflation) and job fees (ETH). Do not conflate them.

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Protocol rewards (LPT)

  • Inflation is minted each round and distributed to bonded stake. Your share is proportional to your stake in the total bonded LPT.
  • You must call reward() every round to claim; otherwise you miss that round’s inflation.
  • Reward cut is the percentage of LPT rewards you keep; the rest goes to delegators.

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Job fees (ETH)

  • Gateways and broadcasters pay for compute via probabilistic micropayments (tickets). Winning tickets are redeemed on Arbitrum for ETH.
  • Fee share is the percentage of ETH fees you share with delegators; you keep the remainder.
Reward cut and fee share are set when you activate or update your orchestrator (e.g. via livepeer_cli or Explorer). They affect how attractive you are to delegators.

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Video vs AI

  • Video: Revenue comes from ticket redemptions (ETH) and inflation (LPT). Selection is stake-weighted.
  • AI: Revenue is from per-job payments. Routing is by capability and price, not stake. AI does not depend on inflation for routing.

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See also

Staking LPT

Delegation

Economics (About)

CLI flags (pricing)

Last modified on February 18, 2026