How does Kinesis Network Work?
Kinesis Network operates with the efficiency, ease of use, and affordability of a power outlet—but offers greater control and transparency.
The electricity in your home comes from diverse sources—large power plants (nuclear, solar, wind, hydro) and smaller generators like your neighbors' rooftop solar panels. The power grid manages and conditions this electricity, delivering it to you in a consolidated way. You receive a single bill, regardless of the source. There's no need to hesitate before using power; you can host a dinner party or run the dishwasher without worry. The supply of electricity scales invisibly with your demand. If you choose, you can even install your own solar panels and sell excess power back to the grid, lowering your bills.
Kinesis Network assembles a diverse array of compute participants, varying in type and scale, from around the world into a unified compute grid.
Kinesis' compute providers span a wide spectrum, ranging from large data centers to smaller facilities and even individual devices like gaming computers in homes or idle machines in offices.
As a customer, you maintain complete control over your compute source. For proof-of-concept work, the most cost-effective option might be using compute resources from around the world. However, for sensitive tasks involving personally identifiable information (PII) or subject to regulatory compliance, dedicated data centers may be more appropriate. Additionally, if your existing infrastructure is already based in a specific data center (such as AWS or Azure), staying within that ecosystem could be optimal.
Kinesis Network consolidates the compute
Although our network allows low-level access to individual resources in the underlying infra, the real value comes from seamless unification of those resources in an easy to use 1-2-3 fashion.
Customers upload their containers (in Docker or other supported formats) through the Kinesis Portal.
Afterwards, they make their preferences in terms of minimum hardware specifications (such as minimum RAM, VRAM, CPU speed needed).
Upon pressing the start button, the Portal provisions the best servers from the grid. It constantly monitors the performance of the group of servers, and replaces them as needed, or adds/removes to/from the groups compute power.
These happens entirely seamlessly, automatically and responsively.
Kinesis Network gives secure and easy access to your workloads
Your applications can easily and securely access containers running in the grid. While direct HTTP or raw TCP access to individual servers is available (e.g. for development purposes), we provide a front-end load balancer to simplify the backend complexity. When a customer makes a request, the nearest data center responds with the most performant server available at the moment.
Individual resources are instantly scaled up, down, in, or out as needed. If the health of some servers degrades, new ones are activated. This orchestration is seamless and automatic, operating within your specified preferences and performance goals.
You pay for only what you actually use
Similar to your electric bill, you only pay for what you actually use, not for what you've reserved or could have used. We meticulously track every instance of usage—down to milliseconds for CPU/GPU usage and bytes for network I/O, storage, and RAM/VRAM occupation. Despite the intricate metering and billing processes, we simplify it for you: you receive a single, comprehensive bill.
For a deeper understanding of your usage, we provide detailed dashboards that show where and when activity occurs. Unlike instance or VM-based workloads, our dashboards display usage per application, revealing the true sources of costs. This insight allows you to target specific areas for optimization and better inform you about your business needs.
Kinesis Network is economical
There is plenty of compute in the world, but
some is overly expensive — mega datacenters can charge high premiums
some is not easily accessible — despite idle capacity in data centers or homes, it remains untapped
and some is inefficiently utilized — cloud providers often offer fixed-size instances, leading to wasted resources like unused RAM, VRAM, or CPU power. For example, virtual machines typically use less than 20% of their CPU capacity, yet still paying for 100% of the reservation.
Kinesis Network mobilizes underutilized and under-capitalized computing resources, passing the savings on to you.
You can contribute to the network in exchange for credits or the specific compute resources you need.
If you have idle compute resources (perhaps due to over-provisioned reserved instances from AWS, Azure, or other providers), you can offer them back to the grid. As these resources contribute to the network, you'll earn credits for your own use—or even turn a profit if you contribute more than you consume. This system also allows you to convert excess capacity from one type to another. For instance, if you have surplus CPU power but need GPU capacity for an upcoming AI applications, you can efficiently trade your CPU resources on the Kinesis Network for the GPU power you currently require.
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