How grades work
A grade says how reliably a miner finishes the paid jobs it takes. It is worked out from the last 7 days on chain.
What goes into a grade
- Jobs completed50%Share of paid jobs the miner finished instead of letting them time out.
- Typical time15%How long a job usually takes from start to payment.
- Work delivered15%Compute delivered in settled channels, ranked against other rated miners.
- Online15%Share of our checks where the worker had reported in recently.
- Clean record5%No strikes and no slashing.
The five grades
Reliable90+
Steady80+
Uneven70+
Shaky60+
Failingunder 60
Newunder 20 jobs
The exact rules and their limits
How each part is scored
- Jobs completed: paid jobs that settled, divided by settled plus timed out, as a score from 0 to 100.
- Typical time: a median of 120 seconds or less scores 100, 600 seconds or more scores 0, and it is a straight line in between.
- Work delivered: the miner's delivered compute ranked against every other graded miner. The top miner scores 100, the bottom one 0.
- Online: our collector checks every few minutes. A check counts as online when the miner is active and its worker reported in within the last 15 minutes. It is shown as still measuring until there are 12 checks.
- Clean record: starts at 100, loses 34 per strike, and is 0 for a miner that has been slashed.
What is left out
- Probe jobs. Most channels on devnet open with an escrow of 1 wei and always time out. The gateway opens them and they carry no real payment, so counting them would make every miner look like it fails most of its work.
- Jobs that have not ended. They count for nothing until they settle or time out.
- Miners with fewer than 20 ended paid jobs in the window. They are shown as New, because that is too little history to judge.
Limits
- Online history starts when our collector started. FLOP publishes no uptime figure, so we build it from worker heartbeats. It cannot be backfilled.
- Not every worker sends a heartbeat. When it sends none, Online is left out for that miner and its weight is shared across the other parts. It is not scored as zero.
- Demand is not yet a free market. Most jobs on devnet are opened by the gateway's own account, so how much work a miner gets reflects the gateway's routing more than people choosing it.
- GPU and worker version are self-reported by the miner and shown as declared.
- A miner blacklisted on chain is always Failing.
Where the data comes from
Miners and their jobs come from the public FLOP explorer, model prices from the public FLOP gateway.