What 1 DIEM Buys You

Model API prices updated September 14, 2026. Live DIEM market price above.

DIEM is tokenized inference

Each staked DIEM gives you $1 per day of Venice API credits that refresh every day. You don't spend the token down. You own a permanent daily compute budget.

Why DIEM exists (separate from VVV): it keeps daily API capacity stable per user, and it lets people trade raw compute. Many VVV holders are not heavy API users; DIEM is the transferable unit for that capacity.

• Minimum stake: 0.10 DIEM → $0.10/day
• 1 DIEM: $1/day
• 5 DIEM: $5/day

That budget works across Venice's API models. Cheap private models stretch a long way. Premium models use the same $1 faster, but you still get real daily capacity either way. DIEM is not a stablecoin; the market price is not pegged to $1.

Real examples (easy to relate to)

All numbers below assume a 50/50 split between input and output, and a “500-page book” of writing ≈ 125,000 words of generated text. API prices as of September 14, 2026.

Plain-English takeaways

What small holders can actually do

Most people start with under 1–2 DIEM. Here’s the practical picture at 50/50 split:

On premium or popular frontier models the same $1 buys fewer tokens, but still real daily work. Use the calculator below and switch to Kimi K3, Claude, GPT, or Gemini to see the difference.

Try it yourself (calculator)

Pick how much DIEM you hold and a model. We'll estimate how much input and output you can run every day at current API prices.

Easy scale: ~500-page books of output / day

Using the model and split above. A "500-page book" here ≈ 125,000 words of generated text (~167k tokens of output).

Curated model tiers

A short list only: ultra-cheap private stretch models, strong private options people actually use, plus a few premium anonymized names for comparison. Not the full Venice catalog.

How to get DIEM

Usually: buy on the market. At current mint rates, minting is often far more expensive than buying. Run the numbers first.