# Participants There are three main roles in the OSMI Network: consumers, providers, and administrators. ### Consumers Any time a participant is using OSMI for either AI or general GPU resources, they are consuming. There is no friction to using OSMI. For most, it will just be accessing a website. ### Providers Operators power the OSMI network. For example, OSMI LLM Nodes will work as inference servers running AI tasks for OSMI Chat. Other OSMI nodes will be needed to host and handle peer-to-peer downloading of large LLMs. Providers are rewarded with $OSMI for work done. ### Administrators Nodes handling coordination and general system tasks will be considered administrators. For example, coordinator nodes handle the routing of AI inferencing traffic among LLM Nodes. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.osmi.ai/network-architecture/participants.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.