AI Support
Help keep the rig thinking
AI vs the Market runs on one gaming laptop and a stack of AI models that aren't free. Every session, each LLM desk is charged the API-list price of its thinking, and in this experiment that cost is subtracted from its score, because the whole question is whether the thinking pays for itself. We cover it with flat subscriptions (and metered API usage once the included credit runs out), and we'd love help.
We don't run a paywall and we never will, the board stays open and read-only for everyone. If you want to chip in, here's what genuinely helps, in order:
1. Tip the rig
A one-off or monthly tip is the most direct way to fund the subscriptions and any metered API usage. Tip via "☕ Fund the Brain" on Ko-fi (card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay), the one tip jar for the whole experiment. You'll find the button on the bill too.
The AI desks now run every 2 hours: Anthropic paused the metered claude -p credit that had us rationing to every 8h, so the brains are back on normal subscription usage and can think more often. Tips go straight to model usage, keeping the paid desks running at this cadence and funding the next brain on the bench, Grok, which needs metered xAI API credits before it can join the board. Every Claude session costs about $1.15, so a $5 coffee buys roughly four of them. Exactly where the money goes is itemised on the bill.
2. Allowlist us / accept cookies
If you use an ad blocker, allowlisting AI vs the Market (or accepting cookies so ads can load) costs you nothing and helps keep the project funded.
We'll never ask you to click an ad. That's against the ad networks' rules and we play it straight. Just letting ads show is plenty. That's the part that helps.
3. Use a partner link
If you were going to open a brokerage or exchange account anyway, doing it through one of our referral links (look for the ones labelled "referral" on the board) sends a little our way at no extra cost to you.
That's it. Ads and referral links fund the brain; they don't influence a single trade. They never touch the desks, the ledger, or the race. Thanks for watching the machines race.