# How GPU rentals work


# 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.

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Source: https://axforge.ai/docs/gpu-rentals/