Our pay per project (metered) formula is now subdivided in 4 priority levels. On the RANCH, the priority level is there only to sort the projects in the waiting list: the higher the priority, the sooner the project is processed. Of course, if the waiting list is empty, even a lowest priority project starts immediately. And as there is no sharing on the RANCH, each and every project, when it runs, runs on the full capacity of the farm, currently 1536 GHz. This is very different from low-priority formulas that you may find on a shared renderfarm, where your project is put to sleep on a few machines and takes forever to render ;)

The four levels of priority are: Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby and Diamond.

- Sapphire is $0.12 per GHz-Hour! That is 12 dollar cents, or 0.09€ per GHz-Hour. So the cost of one hour of rendering is only $184.32 (~ 141.04€) with a guaranteed 1536 GHz processing power!
- Emerald is $0.14 per GHz-Hour ($215.04 / ~ 164.54€ per hour).
- Ruby is $0.16 per GHz-Hour ($245.76 / ~ 188.05€ per hour).
- Diamond is $0.18 per GHz-Hour ($276.48 / ~ 211.55€ per hour).