Changelog — MicroDC.ai Platform Updates

September 1, 2026 NEW

Worker Fleet Version Management

Workers report their version on every heartbeat; current and outdated hardware is badged in the dashboard
Auto-update contract with commit-pinned downloads and sha256 verification
Operators can see at a glance whether a machine needs attention

August 25, 2026 NEW

Reasoning Models on the OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

reasoning_effort is honoured on /v1/chat/completions
Reasoning tokens are counted and billed transparently, and reported back in the usage block
Usage now reflects billed tokens exactly, so your accounting matches ours

August 24, 2026 NEW

True Streaming: Server-Sent Events End to End

Set "stream": true and tokens relay from the worker to you as they are produced
Chunk ingest with liveness tracking, so a stalled stream is detected rather than hanging
Streaming-capable workers are preferred when a request asks for it

August 21, 2026 IMPROVED

Model Requirements Read from Source

VRAM requirements are scraped from Ollama tag pages instead of estimated
Fixes cases where a model was assumed to need roughly 3× the VRAM it actually does
Practical effect: more of the fleet is eligible for more jobs, so queues drain faster

August 18, 2026 FIXED

Embedding and Prompt-Style Jobs Billed Zero Tokens

Both job shapes recorded 0 tokens and therefore no charge
Token counting corrected across both paths; billing now matches work performed

August 6, 2026 IMPROVED

Worker Reliability: Fault Attribution and Claim Throttling

Failures are attributed to the party actually at fault before any decommission decision
Adaptive per-worker claim throttling stops one misbehaving node from starving the queue
Net effect for customers: fewer jobs landing on hardware that cannot finish them

July 28, 2026 FIXED

Custom Credit Purchases Granted 100× Too Few Credits

Custom-amount top-ups granted 1 credit per dollar while every package granted 100
All purchase paths now grant at the platform rate: $1 = 100 credits
One internal test purchase was affected; no customer was under-credited

July 21, 2026 NEW

Email Verification with Magic-Link Sign-In

The welcome email verifies your address and signs you in with one click
Reads stay open before verification; spending and resource creation require it

July 15, 2026 NEW

Organizations: Shared Budgets and Team Resources

Credits belong to an organization, not an individual — one pool, many people
Owner, admin and member roles, with invitations
Monthly organization spend limits plus per-member caps, enforced at submission
Jobs, files, workers and worker groups are visible across the team

June 2026 NEW

Container Jobs with Metered GPU and CPU Pricing

Run arbitrary Docker workloads, not just model inference
Billed per GPU-hour or CPU-core-hour against a published tier table
Declare minimum hardware — VRAM, GPU count, cores, RAM — and jobs route only to machines that qualify
Live log streaming while the container runs

April 16, 2026 NEW

Worker Earnings & Payout UI

Summary cards for lifetime, 30-day, 90-day, and pending earnings
Worker-by-worker table sortable by earnings, status, or last seen
Credits payout with bonus percentage vs PayPal cash — your choice

April 10, 2026 NEW

Context-Aware Job Routing

Tier 1: 0–1.5K chars · Tier 2: 1.5K–6K · Tier 3: 6K–24K · Tier 4: 24K+
Encrypted jobs default to tier 4 (routed only to capable workers)
Fully backward compatible — existing workers keep seeing all jobs

April 2, 2026 NEW

Docker Container Jobs

Upload script/code files (.py, .sh, .js, .ts, .go, .rs, .java, and more) as container inputs
GPU-hour or CPU-core-hour pricing, plus a $2.00 platform fee per run
Live log streaming via POST /jobs/{id}/heartbeat

April 1, 2026 NEW SECURITY

End-to-End Message-Level Encryption

Dual-mode job submission — unencrypted or encrypted, your pick per job
Encryption keys deleted on job acknowledgment
Fully backward compatible with existing unencrypted flow

March 26, 2026 IMPROVED

Jobs & Workers UI Refresh

Auto-refresh ON/OFF toggle on both Jobs and Workers pages
Sortable column headers with arrow indicators
The Worker column on the Jobs page now correctly shows the assigned worker name

March 24, 2026 NEW

Worker Groups

Full CRUD: create, rename, assign workers, delete
Admins can create and manage groups on behalf of any user
Per-group earnings breakdown with time windows

March 21, 2026 IMPROVED

Stuck Job Detection & Zombie Recovery

Reliability pass on the job queue: age column with color-coded alerts
Admin "Stuck" filter and rewritten zombie-monitor with activity-based detection (10 min no progress) instead of a fixed 24-hour threshold
Per-job commits mean one failure no longer blocks the rest

March 13, 2026 NEW

PayPal Direct Integration & Custom Credit Amounts

Buy credits in any amount from $1 to $500 with a live preview
Preset packages still available; volume quotes via sales
Manual payment processor retired — all top-ups now flow through PayPal directly

March 8, 2026 NEW

Multi-Concurrent Jobs per Worker

Workers with spare VRAM can now claim and process multiple jobs at once
A worker is only marked BUSY when at full capacity
Backward compatible — max_concurrent_jobs defaults to 1

February 2026 NEW

OpenAI-Compatible API

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI Chat Completions
Point your existing OpenAI SDK at MicroDC.ai and keep your code
Same request/response shape, multimodal content lists supported

February 2026 IMPROVED

File Storage Billing & Delete

Self-serve file delete and download tokens for secure direct links
Transparent daily storage fee accounting in your billing ledger
Model-level metrics rolled out for admins

What's new.