Become a provider

A provider sells inference. You decide which models you serve, what you charge, and what infrastructure you use to serve them. Soma handles registration, payment, and discovery.

The path

Register your provider record. One transaction; binds your wallet address to a public HTTPS endpoint that buyers’ proxies will hit.
Terminal window
```
soma provider register --endpoint https://my-inference.example.com
```
Publish an offering for each model you sell. Prices are in micro-USDC per 1000 tokens. The --model-id must be one of the canonical IDs in the protocol’s ModelRegistry — list them with soma model list.
Terminal window
```
soma offering register \
    --model-id anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 \
    --prompt-micros-per-1k 1000 \
    --completion-micros-per-1k 5000
```
Run the daemon. It accepts OpenAI-compatible requests at your endpoint, verifies each one carries a valid voucher, forwards to your upstream (your own GPUs, OpenRouter, Anthropic — anything), streams responses back, and stores vouchers.
Terminal window
```
soma start provider --config provider.toml
```
Config schema is in soma start provider --help.
Withdraw earnings. Voucher settlement happens automatically while the daemon runs. To move USDC back to Base:
Terminal window
```
soma bridge withdraw --amount <USDC> --recipient <ETH_ADDR> --target-chain base-sepolia
```

What you don’t have to do

Stake. Providers don’t stake anything. Staking is for validators.
Run a validator. Independent role. Most providers won’t.
Prove availability. There’s no on-chain liveness oracle. If your endpoint is down, the proxy routes elsewhere; your rating drops over time and traffic falls. That’s the incentive.