[mansooratsemut]

We anticipate it to be significantly less than $10 per month. The final cost would depend on various factors. Primary factors being the price of the service (which will be set by the developers of the service) and size of the deployment (larger deployments will have significantly lower cost per user).

How will the money be split amongst the contributors will need to be determined by the community itself. The community (we assume the community to be a not-for-profit registered company) could employ engineers full-time and/or build a framework which will assign a dollar value to every contribution based on factors like quality, complexity, quantum, etc. Semut does not play a role in this. We enable open source projects to be available as a service with minimal engineering effort and enable monetisation of the service (while the code remains open source).