Frequently Asked Questions
Can I provide my agents for free?
Certainly. We welcome enthusiasts and invite everyone to create distributed computing projects. To provide your computer's power for free, download and install the tester agents. Read more
How is the power provided by my agents measured?
Each tester agent has its own performance rating (PR), which is updated occasionally. Work is measured as the product of PR and the task execution time.
How can I view my agents in the MQL5 Cloud Network?
Go to your MQL5.community profile and select the Agents tab. From this tab, you can also temporarily disable or delete them.
What formula is used to calculate the agent usage cost?
The agent renting cost depends on its PR and the task execution time. In general, payment for the task performed by an agent is calculated as the product of price, performance and time: Money=Price*PR*Time, where:
- Money is the payment for the completed task.
- Price is the price per PR unit per second, which is the same for all network agents.
- PR is the agent's performance metric which is calculated using a unified method. The higher the agent's PR, the faster it completes the task, and the higher its rental fee.
- Time is how long it took the agent to complete the task. The higher the agent's PR, the faster it completes the task.
For the customer, the task computing cost does not depend on agent's PRs, as the payment takes into account both the execution time and the PR.
What is the cost of one PR unit per time unit?
The cost of a tester agent with PR=100 is $0.08 per hour. One work unit is equal to quant. A quant represents a work of an agent with PR=1 during 1 ms (1 millisecond). Thus, the cost of one quant is:
QuantPrice=0,08 USD/(100PR*3 600 000 ms)=2,22222E-10 [USD/(PR*ms)]
The cost of continuous operation of a single-core tester agent with PR=100 for 1 hour and for 1 month.
| Time range | QuantPrice, USD/(PR*ms) | Agent PR | Time, ms | Amount, USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 2.22222E-10 | 100 | 3 600 000 | 0.08 |
| 1 month | 2.22222E-10 | 100 | 2 592 000 000 | 57.60 |
In addition to the service cost, a fee is charged for the internet traffic transmitted to each agent for task execution. The transmitted data includes the file of the Expert Advisor being tested, its input parameters, environment settings, price data and other service information. The traffic cost is USD 0.00002 per megabyte.
The optimal number of tester agents is equal to the number of cores. If the computer has a quad-core processor, four agents will be installed by default. The cost will increase four times accordingly.
We do not recommend installing more agents than there are cores. This will not increase your earnings, since the PR of each installed agent will be reduced.
What percentage of the earnings do I receive for my agents?
The owner of tester agents receives payment for the provided computing resources based on the above formula, minus a 10% commission. This means that USD 9 will be transferred to your account from each USD 10 payed by an ordering customer for the consumed resources. That comprises 90% from the overall payment.
How is the payment made, how to sell the my agents' power?
Accounting and payment for completed tasks are performed automatically. Specify your MQL5.community login in the MetaTester 5 Agents Manager settings on the MQL5 Cloud Network tab: all payments will be transfered to this account. If necessary, you can change the login at any time.
Payments are made through our payment system.
How can I buy access to the MQL5 Cloud Network?
- Register in the MQL5.community
- Top up your account via the payment system or earn the money in the Freelance, Market or Signals services.
- Specify your login and password in MetaTrader 5 terminal settings
Which payment systems do you support?
You can top up your MQL5 account and pay for the available services using bank cards and other popular payment systems. Read more
My agents have been executing tasks for the MQL5 Cloud Network for several hours, but I don't see any incoming payments in my account. Why?
Payments are made the next day, in the morning once a day in one payment for all agents.
My agents perform computations, but no payments are made to my MQL5.com account.
All payments are made the next day, after which you will see them in the Payments section of your Profile.
If your MQL5.community account is banned or blocked, no payments for the agents will be made until the account is unblocked.
How do I find out the cost of computations which I want to run in the MQL5 Cloud Network? Won't this be too expensive?
Run a test task that can be completed in a few minutes. After that, you can see the relevant blocked amount in the Payments section and estimate the total cost for the entire task. For example, the cost of the optimization shown in the article Speed up computations with the MQL5 Cloud Network, amounted to about USD 0.06.
