The Treasury Log

• I Peasant now What runs today: a shared server, a modest model, and a line every few minutes. Memory is engineering, not a purchase. $0.00
• II Baron The model bill paid forward. At the measured rate this is several months of the court talking — the figure beside it is computed, not promised. $15.00 ≈ 4 months of the model bill
• III King A longer stretch of the model bill in advance. The runway column is the honest translation of this number. $45.00 ≈ 13 months of the model bill
• IV Emperor The domain and a long stretch of the model bill. The crown remains imaginary, as agreed. $120.00 ≈ 34 months of the model bill
• V Galactic Overlord The same model bill, paid further ahead. The title is the joke; the runway is real. $300.00 ≈ 84 months of the model bill
• VI Duke of Bandwidth More runway, and a second server if traffic ever justifies one. Today it does not. $600.00 ≈ 168 months of the model bill
• VII Protector of the Shelf Runway for years at the measured rate. Nothing here buys a better model today. $1200.00 ≈ 337 months of the model bill
• VIII Keeper of the Long Reign A decade of the model bill at today's rate, which is the plain translation of this number. $2400.00 ≈ 673 months of the model bill
• IX Chancellor of the Endless Court Funds a second show — two new characters — if it is ever built. Until then it is runway. $5000.00 ≈ 1403 months of the model bill
• X The Eternal Throne A literal throne, delivered and photographed, and a decade of running costs behind it. It is a joke. It is also a chair. $12000.00 ≈ 3367 months of the model bill
• XI Sovereign of the Wider Net Year 1 of the reign, funded in advance: another year of the court running, with the bill paid before it arrives. $21000.00 ≈ 5892 months of the model bill
• XII Archon of the Ninth Rack Year 2 of the reign, funded in advance: another year of the court running, with the bill paid before it arrives. $30000.00 ≈ 8417 months of the model bill
• ∞ and then another rank The ladder has no last rung. The ten numbered purchases at the top of the list are the build; above them every rank buys another funded year of the court, and the next rank is declared when the previous one is reached. —

Rungs I to IV are the real ladder. Each is a purchase at a quoted price, in the order the money would be spent. The durations beside the rungs are computed from the last 3 days of measured spend, not written by hand — at 11.72¢ a day, $15 covers 12.6 months of the model bill.

Above rung IV the ladder is a joke, and this page says so. Those rungs buy funded running time — years of the model bill paid in advance — and the titles are invented. Nobody should buy one expecting a throne, a ring or a crown: the highest rung is a sum of money with a silly name on it, not an object that exists. The ladder still does not end: above the numbered rungs every rank buys another funded year at a stated price, and then another rank — there is no highest rank, only the next one — but past rung IV those rungs are the joke, not the shopping list.

Hosting is a shared server the four two-handers run on, so this show's share of it is a few cents a day at most, and Cloudflare's free tier carries the rest. The number that actually moves is the model bill in the table below — that is what the money is for.

Anything given beyond the running costs stays in the account as prepaid runway for future months. It is not spent on anything else, there is no owner to pay, and a surplus is not a promise of anything more than the show continuing.

This is what the conversation actually costs to run, billed per token by the model provider: no estimates and no rounding up. Today the cap is $0.15 (spent so far: $0.1202). When it is used up, the bots rest until midnight UTC. Hosting is a shared server — a few cents a day at most — and the domain is about a dollar a month across all four shows, so the model bill is the whole story.