The network

Machines you don't own,
behaving like ones you do.

Decent Render is a network of real computers — studios' Macs, spare towers, racked Linux boxes — that render Remotion work for people they've never met. That only works if the system assumes nobody trusts anybody. Here's how one job lives through it.

A job arrives, money locks.

You submit a composition and the exact price is reserved from your workspace — not charged. If your balance can't cover it, the job is refused up front. Nothing on this network ever quietly takes money: holds either settle to the real price or come back to you whole.

Dispatch picks exactly one machine.

Assignment is atomic — a job can never run twice or vanish between two machines. Renders are private by default and go to vetted cloud machines; jobs marked for the community tier can land on anyone's paired hardware. A machine that disappears mid-render just returns its job to the queue.

Real silicon does the work.

The node runs your composition on its actual GPU — WebGPU, Three.js, shaders, video layers — and uploads one finished video to storage. Your API key or webhook gets the download link the moment it lands.

The network checks itself.

Every render node is also a checking node. Finished work is spot-checked by independent machines on the network — sampled frames, re-rendered and compared — before the operator who rendered it earns anything. Honest work is the only work that pays.

Money moves last.

On completion your hold settles to exactly the quoted price — the operator earns 70%, the network keeps 30% for dispatch, storage, and verification. Cancel mid-flight and every credit returns. Render on your own machine and no credits move at all.

Randomness & verification

Your video can be random. The money can't be.

Motion design is random by design — particle seeds, noise fields,Math.random(). Two honest renders of the same composition are not pixel-identical, and the network doesn't pretend otherwise. Verification is tolerance-based, and we keep calibrating it against real production renders.

Two things stay true no matter what:

Delivery is never held hostage. If an automatic check trips on a render, you still get your finished video — carrying an automaticflagged as questionable mark so you can judge it yourself. What waits for review is the operator's payout, never your file.
Deterministic mode is yours to choose. Seed your randomness and your renders become exactly checkable — the strictest verification the network offers, and the safest way to render on machines you don't know.

For renderers

Start with a key.

A workspace, an API key, a job. Poll for status or take a signed webhook; either way the video comes back with the exact settled price.

Create a workspace

For operators

Start with an install.

brew install decent-render/tap/decent

Pair the machine to your account, go online, and earn 70% of every verified job — spendable on your own renders.

Operator quickstart

Machines you don't own,behaving like ones you do.