Ocean Nodes are designed to manage failures locally, keeping compute job execution predictable and controlled. If a node goes down mid-run, the job can be restarted on the same node once it becomes available again. Funds are released from escrow only when the node explicitly marks a job as "finished" - be it succesful or failed. That means, you only pay for the time the resources were engaged to run your job.
Rerouting is handled by the user, in line with the Ocean Network ethos of giving users full control over which resources are used.
This differs when a failure is caused by the algorithm itself. In that case, the job is treated as unsuccessful because the execution failed, not because the node was unavailable. See the dedicated FAQ for algorithm failures.
