Price Response Plus is now generally available with Auto Strike. Manual Strike is coming soon. If you're an existing cost avoidance customer using Foreman's automatic strike price functionality, you're eligible to transition — contact your account team.
Price Response Plus is Foreman's automated power response solution for bitcoin mining fleets operating in variable-priced energy markets. It can automatically optimize each miner's power draw against real-time energy prices, maximizing fleet profitability across every market condition without manual intervention.
The feature builds on Foreman's existing price response(Cost Avoidance) functionality by giving operations managers more granular control — including the ability to place miners into different power modes or reduce wattage to a target set point based on either automatically calculated or manually defined strike prices.
Who This Is For
Price Response Plus is designed for operations managers running bitcoin mining fleets in variable-priced energy markets. It is especially valuable for:
- Sites with a mix of stock firmware and third-party firmware miners (LuxOS, Vnish, Braiins) that need per-model strike price configuration rather than a single fleet-wide threshold.
- Hosting and colocation facilities managing multiple customers with different SLAs, where independent curtailment strategies are required per client.
- Operators participating in both price response and ancillary reserve programs need those two to coexist without conflict.
- Any team spending time manually calculating strike prices across dissimilar hardware can use Auto Strike to eliminate that.
- Existing Foreman Cost Avoidance customers using automatic strike price functionality can migrate to Price Response Plus to access the full feature set.
Not sure which you're on? Auto Strike means Foreman's algorithm is calculating and applying the strike price for your miners automatically. Manual Strike means you or your team defined a fixed threshold yourself. If you're unsure, check your Price Response configuration in the dashboard or contact support.
Supported Miners
Core Concepts
What Is a Strike Price?
A strike price is the energy price threshold at which a miner (or group of miners) takes a defined action — such as throttling power, switching to a lower power mode, or shutting off entirely. Price Response Plus lets you define these thresholds either automatically or manually.
Strategies
Price Response Plus supports three curtailment strategies. The right strategy depends on your miners' hardware and firmware capabilities.
| Strategy | What It Does | Compatible Miners |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | Turns miners on or off at a strike price | All miners (stock + third-party firmware) |
| Power Mode | Steps miners through discrete power modes (Sleep, Low, Normal, High) at defined price thresholds | Stock firmware miners with power mode support |
| Wattage Target | Sets a specific wattage target at each price level across as many steps as needed | LuxOS, Vnish, and Braiins firmware miners |
Strike Price Methods
Each strategy can be configured using one of two methods:
- Auto Strike – Foreman's algorithm automatically calculates the optimal strike price for each miner model based on real-time efficiency, power price, hash price, network difficulty, and ambient temperature adjustments. This eliminates the manual calculation burden that leads most sites to default to a single flat rate.
- Manual Strike – You define your own strike prices and thresholds. This gives sophisticated operators full control when their strategy requires something beyond auto-calculated defaults, without sacrificing fleet-level automation.
Key Features
Built-in Algorithm
Automatically calculates optimal strike prices per miner model using real-time market data, including efficiency, power price, hash price, and network difficulty. Temperature adjustments are factored in as well. No spreadsheets, no single flat rates applied across dissimilar hardware.
Three Curtailment Strategies
Basic, Power Mode, and Wattage Target are matched to what each miner's hardware and firmware can actually support — so machines are never over-curtailed when they could still be profitably mining, and never under-curtailed when running would be unprofitable.
Miner-Type Configuration
Strike prices and strategies are configured per miner model rather than fleet-wide. Each machine operates at its correct threshold based on its actual efficiency profile.
Client-Specific Strike Prices
For hosting and colocation facilities, configure independent strategies for each customer's machines. This makes it possible to honor different SLAs and risk tolerances without forcing a single configuration site-wide.
Custom Adder
Apply a configurable markup on top of the LMP price to account for transmission costs, ancillary charges, or other site-specific costs. This ensures calculated strike prices reflect your true all-in power cost rather than just the raw market price.
Delay Settings
Prevents rapid power cycling that can damage hardware. Configurable delays between a price crossing and a curtailment or wake-up action protect your ASICs and PSUs from unnecessary wear during short-lived price fluctuations.
Emergency Shutdown Price
Immediately curtails the fleet when prices spike abnormally high, using its own independent curtailment and resumption delays. This ensures catastrophic price events are always acted on promptly, without being blocked by other delay timers.
Market Node Coverage
Supports a broad range of LMP pricing nodes so operators across more markets and regions can participate without workarounds or missing data.
Ancillary Reserve
Protects committed demand response and ancillary load from being consumed by price-based curtailment. You can participate in both price response and ancillary programs simultaneously without having to choose one over the other.
Real-Time, Hourly, and Day-Ahead Market Support
Works across all major variable pricing structures, so the same platform operates regardless of which market your utility runs or whether your strategy spans multiple market types.
Strategy Configuration Reference
Basic (On/Off)
| Method | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Auto Strike | The algorithm determines the strike price; the miner sleeps or runs |
| Manual Strike | You define a single strike price; the miner sleeps or runs |
Compatible with: All miners (stock + third-party firmware)
Power Mode
| Method | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Auto Strike | The algorithm sets a target power mode per price level |
| Manual Strike | You define price thresholds for each power mode (Sleep, Low, Normal, High) |
Compatible with: Stock firmware miners with power mode support
Wattage Target
| Method | How It Works |
|---|---|
| Auto Strike | The algorithm sets a target wattage per price level |
| Manual Strike | You define price-to-wattage steps across as many levels as needed |
Compatible with: LuxOS, Vnish, and Braiins firmware miners
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to use Auto Strike, or can I set my own prices?
→ Both options are fully supported. Auto Strike is recommended for most operators as it removes manual calculation work and adapts to changing market conditions automatically. Manual Strike is available for teams that prefer to run their own pricing logic.
What happens if my miners don't support Power Mode or Wattage Target?
→ Use the Basic strategy. It works with all miners regardless of firmware and provides reliable on/off control at your defined strike price.
Can I configure different strategies for different customers at my hosting facility?
→ Yes. The Client-Specific Strike Prices feature lets you set up independent strategies per customer so each group of machines follows its own thresholds and curtailment approach.
Will frequent price swings cause my miners to cycle on and off constantly?
→ No. Delay Settings let you configure a buffer between a price crossing and any curtailment or wake-up action, preventing unnecessary cycling during short-lived fluctuations. The Emergency Shutdown Price is the only action that bypasses delays, and it only triggers on abnormal price spikes.
Does Price Response Plus work with my energy market?
→ Price Response Plus supports real-time, hourly, and day-ahead markets and covers a broad range of LMP pricing nodes. If you're unsure whether your market is supported, contact your Foreman account team.
How do I start using Price Response Plus?
→ If you're currently using Foreman's cost avoidance feature with automatic strike price functionality (where Foreman sets the strike price for you), you can migrate to Price Response Plus to get the full feature set. Reach out to your account team or submit a support ticket, and we'll handle the transition.
Getting Started
Note: This feature needs to be enabled before it can be used. Reach out to us for enablement.
Navigate to Settings in your user dropdown.
Select the Power Control tile.
Then navigate to Price Response Plus from the side menu.
- From the dashboard, you will then select the type (Basic, Power Mode, or Wattage Target) appropriate for your miner models.
- Choose Auto Strike or Manual Strike as your configuration method.
- Configure any additional settings — Custom Adder, Delay Settings, Emergency Shutdown Price, and Ancillary Reserve as applicable.
- Save and activate your strategy.
- We're also expanding the Sitemap Lite miners compatibility table with additional columns — more details on supported configurations will appear there as coverage grows.
For hands-on help with initial configuration, reach out to Foreman support or submit a ticket below.
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