Lichess Operating Budget and Expense Categories

Line items from Lichess annual budget covering hosting, content, development, moderation, and operations.
# Sysadmin & Hosting
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1 Server
2 Frontend + lila JVM
3 Socket frontend 1
4 Socket frontend 2
5 Socket frontend 3
6 Container platform tests
7 lila-ws JVM
8 lila-http
9 DB primary
10 DB secondary
11 DB secondary
12 DB secondary (1h delay)
13 DB secondary (24h delay)
14 Study DB
15 Monitoring + fishnet
16 Puzzle DB + Lichess insights
17 Elasticsearch
18 7-piece tablebase
19 8-piece tablebase
20 Misc. Communication services
21 Backup v2 + puzzles
22 Machine learning
23 YoloDB we can afford to lose
24 Opening explorer
25 Study secondary (24h delay)
26 Staging
27 Machine learning
28 Machine learning
29 Machine learning
30 Private communications
31 Total servers
32 Domain names
33 Google Cloud
34 AWS for Nonprofits Admin Fee
35 Apple store
36 Sysadmin (part time)
37 Misc OVH fees (IPs, premium support)
38 Content & Community
39 Titled Arenas
40 Streamer Arenas
41 Fieldwork Expenses
42 Content Coordinator (part time)
43 Community Coordinator (part time)
44 Content and Broadcast Stipend 1
45 Content and Broadcast Stipend 2
46 Content and Broadcast Stipend 3
47 IRL Workshops and Outreach
48 Restreaming Software
49 Development
50 Lead Developer
51 Mobile Developer
52 Development Stipend 1
53 Development Stipend 2
54 Development Stipend 3
55 Development Stipend 4
56 Moderation
57 Moderation Coordinator (part time)
58 Moderation Stipend 1 - 12
59 R&D
60 Operations
61 Director of Operations
62 Administration Coordidnator (part time)
63 Administrative and Event Stipends 1 - 3
64 Independent Accountant
65 Independent Auditing
66 Governance Consultancy
67 Merchandise
68 CPD fund
69 Association Bank Account
70 Total services
71 Other Expenses
72 Total costs
73 Games per day
74 Donations
75 $5.00
76 $10.00
77 $20.00
78 $50.00
79 Picture storage + future open database + fishnet
80 Subject Matter Experts Annual Budget
81 Usually titled players or influencers whom we collaborate with for educational material, streams, videos,, annotations and other content
82 Misc. Prize Events
83 Prize events done in formal collaboration with other entities in chess
84 French social security / pension contrib.
85 Employer contributions to employee pensions and social security, etc.
86 Payment Processor Fees
87 Estimated as based on donations
88
89 FY 2021
90 https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-detail-annonce/?q.id=id:830378717_31122021
91 Running cost
92 Games per $
93 Per minute
94 https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-detail-annonce/?q.id=id:830378717_31122022
95 $2,162.71
96 https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-detail-annonce/?q.id=id:830378717_31122023
97 FY 2024
98 https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-detail-annonce/?q.id=id:830378717_31122024
99 USD value
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