Monetization

HivemindOS should be useful before anyone pays for a cloud feature. Start here when you want to understand what stays free, what becomes paid, and how Honey and HIVE fit around the product without blocking it.

The line is simple: local-first control room features stay available by default, and paid services cover infrastructure that costs real money to run or maintain for users.

The ecosystem plan keeps that boundary explicit: HivemindOS remains free and open source, while optional premium services fund company operations, growth, treasury reserves, and HIVE buybacks.

  1. 1 Ecosystem Plan Free product, premium services, revenue allocation, and value loop.
  2. 2 Honey, HIVE, And Treasury Contribution, ownership, treasury, buybacks, staking, and rewards.
  3. 3 Paid Features The rule for paid infrastructure and the current paid-feature shelf.
  4. 4 Cloud Agent Calls The first concrete paid feature example.

Start With The Boundary

If a feature can run locally with the user’s own keys and machine, keep it free by default.

If a feature needs HivemindOS to provide hosted infrastructure, shared room orchestration, reliability work, or ongoing third-party usage, put it in the paid-feature shelf and say so plainly.

Strategy Pages

HivemindOS Ecosystem Plan

The full plan for the free product, premium services, Honey, HIVE, revenue allocation, treasury reserves, buybacks, and the value wheel.

Open ecosystem plan

Honey, HIVE, And Treasury

The contribution and ownership layers: Honey earning paths, HIVE claims, treasury strategy, buybacks, future burns, and staking.

Open token model

Paid Features

The current paid-feature shelf. Start here when a capability needs managed infrastructure, hosted reliability, or premium orchestration.

Open paid features

HivemindOS Cloud Agent Calls

Managed LiveKit/SFU rooms for mobile-friendly, multi-party, and multi-agent voice calls.

Open cloud calls

Current Boundary

Area Free default Paid path
Agent calls BYOK Agent Calls using the user’s OpenAI Realtime key HivemindOS Cloud Agent Calls using managed LiveKit/SFU rooms
Agent runtime work Local and user-configured runtimes Future managed runtime capacity, if offered
Brain and vault Local Obsidian vault and user-owned sync choices Future managed brain hosting, if offered

Revenue Sources

Optional premium services may include Hive Cloud, managed compute, the Agent Marketplace, and Enterprise.

Hive Cloud covers one-click deployment, managed infrastructure, hosted memory, team workspaces, and monitoring.

Managed compute runs agents and swarms on Hivemind infrastructure with usage-based pricing.

The Agent Marketplace can support paid agents, swarms, workflows, and templates, with Hivemind taking a marketplace fee.

Enterprise covers SSO, teams, compliance, private deployments, and support contracts.