Frequently asked questions
Everything hosts and renters need to know about the GPU server marketplace.
How are hosts paid?
You earn for every hour a renter has your machine and it is online: the monthly rent you set divided by 720, with nothing deducted. A rental taken by the hour, day or week earns the rent you set for that length instead. Earnings are paid monthly to your bank account, within the first ten days of the following month, with no minimum. Identity verification is required before the first payout. The Earnings tab in your dashboard shows what has accrued, what has been paid and what is still owed.
Which fees does a host pay?
Server Room deducts nothing from your earnings: your rent is paid to you whole. The renter pays the price Server Room sets for your machine, and no part of your rent goes toward it. The transfer to your bank costs you nothing further. If your bank account is in another currency, the fee for converting the payout is our payment partner's fee, set and charged by them, not by us.
Where do I enter my bank account?
Your bank details go to our payment partner, not to us. Under List a GPU in your dashboard, the Payouts card takes your country, whether you are a private individual or a company, your details, your bank account and your tax information. Your details and bank account travel from your browser to our payment partner, which checks them, and that check is also what verifies your identity. No payout is sent before your tax information is on file.
Can I host from any country?
Hosts are not limited to a list of countries. Three things have to hold: your machine can keep an outbound connection to our relay on TCP port 2222 (no public IP or open port is needed, and CGNAT works), you pass identity verification before your first payout, and your bank account is in a country our payment partner can pay out to. Where it cannot pay you, neither can we.
What happens if verification fails?
You receive a full breakdown of every failed check — thermal limits, driver errors, storage throughput, or network issues. Fix the flagged items and resubmit; there is no limit on retries.
Which software environments are compatible?
Anything that runs on Linux with a GPU. Each rental is a private Ubuntu 26.04 machine with the GPU passed through and its driver installed; renters add the CUDA toolkit, ROCm, PyTorch, TensorFlow or Docker they want. On a DGX Spark the rental is a hardened container that uses the machine's own NVIDIA driver. Hosts install nothing but the agent: before a machine is listed, it builds the rental image and runs a test rental that proves the GPU reaches it.
Is datacenter-grade hardware required?
It is not mandatory, however stable uptime, adequate cooling, and reliable connectivity are non-negotiable. Hosts running from professional facilities generally see higher occupancy and fewer disruptions.
How are renters given access?
Your machine runs a private virtual machine for the renter, with the GPU passed through and their SSH key inside. They reach it over SSH through our relay: no IPMI, no login to your system.
How long before my listing goes live?
The moment you set its monthly rent in your dashboard, as long as your identity is verified and the machine has passed its hosting checks and is online. There is no review queue: registering the agent creates the listing, the agent runs the checks on the machine itself, and the rent is what publishes it. If a check is still failing, the dashboard names it.
Which terms apply to hosts and renters?
Listing a machine or renting one is governed by our Marketplace terms, together with our Terms of Service. They cover identity verification, which is required before you list a machine or place an order, how a rental is kept apart from the host's machine and network, earnings and payouts, abuse, risk and liability.
Can I rent a machine for an hour, a day or a week?
Yes, where its owner offers it. Add funds to your balance in the dashboard, from $10, and choose hour, day or week on the machine’s order page. The first one is taken from your balance and the machine starts within minutes. Each further one is taken when it starts, at the price its order page shows, until you end the rental or your balance no longer covers the next. Nothing is given back for an hour, day or week that has started. If your balance runs out we email you, and you have one hour, or 15 minutes on a rental by the hour, to add funds before the machine is switched off and its disk wiped. Unused balance does not expire and is refunded on request.
