How GPU rentals work

Rent a dedicated GPU by the hour, week, month or year, with full SSH access to the machine. Here's the whole flow — request, offer, pay, run, stop — in plain bullets.

1. The queue

• Send a request from the console. You join a queue for that GPU type.
• 🔴! It's first-come, first-served: everyone in line is offered the machine, and the first to complete payment gets it.
• You get 1 offer email, then about one an hour so you don't miss it. The window is a few hours.
• Miss it, or someone pays first? Your request stays in line for the next machine — you're never dropped.

2. Paying

• Pay by card (Stripe) or from your AxForge balance — the offer email and your console both open secure checkout.
• The exact price is in the offer email. Dedicated DGX Spark (GB10) is from €0.55/hour, billed by the hour, week, month or year.
• Access opens the moment payment is confirmed. Then you add your SSH key on the machine page.
• 🔴 No refunds once you've paid — not for stopping early, not for unused hours. The one exception: you paid and the machine never worked (if you could log in and start it, it worked).
• ⚠️ Never connect? A rental nobody connected to ends when its paid hours end — nothing more is charged, nothing is refunded.

3. On demand — 4 h minimum, 48 h hard cap

• On demand keeps the machine running — and keeps billing — while you have balance.
• ⚠️ On demand: 4 h minimum · 48 h hard cap — it ends 48 h after it starts, whatever your balance.
• 🔴 No refunds once paid — only exception: a machine that never worked.

4. The off switch

• Stop it any time from your console.
• 🔴! Stopping is the only thing that stops billing on demand — before the 48 h cap ends it for you.

On-demand rentals keep running — and keep billing — until you press Stop or your AxForge balance runs out. Disconnecting SSH, closing the browser, or logging out does NOT stop it.

5. Nothing is saved

• ⚠️ Nothing is saved. Per the rental agreement we keep no data or work.
• When a rental ends, the machine and everything on it (including /workspace) are deleted and cannot be recovered.
• Back up anything you want to keep before you stop.

⚠️ Encrypted backup service isn't available yet (in progress). Until then, copying your work out yourself is the only backup.