I built a way for people to earn money from the AI models they already self-host

There are plenty of places to rent out a GPU, but those all want the whole machine. You hand over the box and someone else runs whatever they want on it. I did not want that. I wanted to sell access to the model I am already running, and keep everything else exactly where it is.

So I spent the last few weeks building ModelVendor.

You install a small connector, point it at the OpenAI-compatible server you are already running, and set your own price per million tokens. That is it. Your weights never leave your machine, and you do not open a port, because the connector dials out and nothing is exposed to the internet. Buyers hit one endpoint and name the seller they want.

The part I care most about: I count tokens at my relay from the traffic I actually forward, not from whatever number a seller's process reports. It means the amount you get paid on is the amount the buyer was charged, and neither side has to take the other's word for it.

Where it honestly is right now: it launched this week and there is exactly one model on the board, which is mine. I put it there to prove the whole loop works (connect, serve, meter, bill, pay out) before asking anyone else to plug their hardware into something unproven. It works. What it does not have yet is other people.

So that is the ask. If you self-host a model, especially a fine-tune or a quant you cannot get from the big providers, I would genuinely like to talk. I am onboarding the first operators myself, on a call, and I will connect your gateway with you and make sure your first listing actually serves and bills correctly before it goes public.

modelvendor.com/sell, or if you would rather just talk it through, grab any slot that suits you: calendly.com/alexander-landaverde01/30min

Happy to answer anything, including the sceptical stuff. I am the founder and this is the whole team.