# Business model

Prometheus-X business model is based on royalties of the digital commons used by the participants of the dataspace.

Prometheus-X will be the owners of the intelectual property (IP) associated to the difital common services for which it has funded the development.

In practical terms, dataspace participants using PTX digital commons will pay Promteheus-x a variable fee (between 4 to 20%) based on the consumption of thoses services.

In most use cases, Prometheus-X digitial commons will be used in three ways:

* **Fully managed service**: As building blocks embbed in a fully managed service (*e.g.* SAAS).
* **Multi cloud** **package**: As building blocks embbed in a self-managed Infrastructure as code package, ready to be deployed on multiple cloud providers.
* **FOSS service**: As raw building blocks used in free and open-source software.

### **Fully managed service**

This covers the use of Prometheus-X digitial commons as building blocks embbed in a fully managed service (*e.g.* SAAS).

<figure><img src="/files/J3CDtKfBYbx05bnv4y9R" alt=""><figcaption><p>Payments flow for managed services embedding PTX digital commons.</p></figcaption></figure>

### **Multi-Cloud** **package**

This covers the use of Prometheus-X digitial commons as building blocks embbed in a self-managed Infrastructure as code package, ready to be deployed on multiple cloud providers.

In practice, the service willl be available as an Infrastructure as code package such as one prepared [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/).

<figure><img src="/files/PdlIfmoYdsxFPyMHPYFh" alt=""><figcaption><p>Payments flow for multi-cloud package and self managed services embedding PTX digital commons.</p></figcaption></figure>

### **FOSS service**

This covers the use of Prometheus-X digitial commons as raw building blocks used in free and open-source software.

<figure><img src="/files/DgrNB6reFqIajd6OXQT1" alt=""><figcaption><p>Payments flow for freen open source service (FOSS) embedding PTX digital commons.</p></figcaption></figure>


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