SOMA trims what a coding agent re-sends to its model. Its own site labels the claimed 15% token saving an estimate and puts the measured Copilot figure at about 10%. The proxy charges model cost with no markup; no customer or revenue is disclosed. Staking the token yields about 52% a year in alpha (11 Oct), all emission.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| SOMA App (open beta) | A proxy for GitHub Copilot CLI and Codex that trims history, tool output and reasoning; Claude Code "soon", Zed "planned" |
| Models | Three DeepSeek models only; no OpenAI or Anthropic |
| Price | "Zero margin. You pay what the model costs us." DeepSeek V4 Pro input $0.92 per million tokens, $0.78 "with SOMA" (est.) |
| How Dendrite earns | "We earn when compression earns its keep, not on the spread"; no fee, share-of-savings term or enterprise price is published |
| Customers | None named; no usage or revenue figure on site, dashboard or X; none claimed in TAO Daily's six articles |
| Who | What they do | How they are paid | Per day | Customer money? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miners (three paid slots) | Submit code that rewrites the agent's message list, scored on tokens saved on hidden tasks | New alpha; 75%, 15% and 10% of incentive | $19.8k | No |
| Validators and stakers (nine) | Set weights from SOMA's scoring; the owner's validator takes 55% of dividends | New alpha | $19.8k | No |
| Dendrite, the owner (coldkey 5FHrQ…) | Runs the contest, the task set and the proxy | The 18% owner cut in alpha | $8.7k | No |
| Alpha holders | No buyback, burn or fee sink; taorevenue, 30 days: owner inflow $0, burn $0, outflow $1,138,744 | — | — | No |
| Alternative | What the buyer gets | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Provider prompt caching | Anthropic cache hits $0.25 against $10 per million input tokens (docs); DeepSeek $0.003 against $0.15 (pricing) | Included; cache writes 1.25–2× list at Anthropic |
| Harness auto-compaction | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and OpenClaw prune old turns themselves | Included; the summary is billed as tokens |
| Gateways | OpenRouter routes at provider price and keeps cache hits sticky (docs); LiteLLM, Portkey and Kong bundle open-source compressors | No token markup; enterprise tiers |
| Compression start-ups | Compresr (compression API), The Token Company (YC) | Usage-priced; no tier above $0.30 per million tokens (2 Oct) |
UIDs paid each day, from chain (block 9,248,983); the owner's key is excluded because the chain burns its share. Three slots hold 99.9% of incentive (75/15/10); the rest carry a 0.002% screener weight, so the count tracks scoring rules, not competitors.
A third of the owner's 457,613 α ($3.1M) is locked; the key has signed four transactions ever (chain, block 9,260,669). Its 18% cut is $3.2M a year, against no customer fees.