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What do Somnia Agents and LLM Inference cost?
Each request carries a small deposit that pays the validators who run it, priced per validator by agent type. Unspent deposit is refunded. Gas for the transaction is charged as normal.
Agent pricing in the docsHow can AI output be deterministic?
The LLM Inference agent runs with fixed seeds and zero temperature. A validator subcommittee runs each job, and the result is accepted by majority or threshold consensus.
LLM Inference in the docsWhat does an agent call cost?
Base agents are priced per call in SOMI: 0.03 for a JSON API request, 0.07 for LLM inference and 0.10 for parsing a website.
Agent pricing in the docsCan agents trade on Somnia Markets?
Yes. Agents use the same SDK, APIs and contracts as any other trader, and dreamDEX offers MCP-native endpoints.
The MCP server in the docs