Your GPUs earn even when nobody is renting them.

Rental fees are billed per UTC day. Your share is paid out daily, 2 days after the billing day. Idle pay accrues while a listed GPU is not rented and is credited several times a day. A stablecoin payout option is planned. The Earnings page in the portal shows every day, node and rental.

Yes. A listed GPU that is not rented earns idle pay. The rate depends on the GPU class: the table on this page shows it over a month of unrented hours, and under it what one GPU of the class was actually paid last month. To qualify, the GPU class is in the idle-pay program (RTX 4080, RTX 5080 and RTX A5000 are not today), your account has Discord connected, and the node passes its checks, prices at or below the class limit, has disk of at least 1.5 times its VRAM, lets Lium set the GPU power limit, and has 1 or 8 GPUs or uses GPU splitting. An 8-GPU H200, B200 or B300 node also offers GPU splitting or GPU profiling, or runs in a confidential VM. Spot nodes opt out of idle pay.

Developers and AI agents rent pods by the hour through an API, a CLI and the web. Renters pay by card or crypto. Lium bills the renter and pays you; you never invoice anyone.

You do, per GPU-hour, within the allowed range for the class. A price above the class limit switches idle pay off for that node until you lower it. The rental earnings in the table are at the average price renters paid last month.

Lium checks new nodes in cycles of about 15 minutes and lists a node once it passes. The node page shows the node’s status and, when a check fails, the reason and what to fix. A node that shows OFFLINE is not answering on the address and port you registered: check the container is running and the port is open from outside your network.

Lium measures download and upload from your node and requires at least 100 Mbps download on a moving average. A first sample under the line fails that cycle, so a node on a 60 to 99 Mbps link passes a local speed test and still earns nothing. Upload is measured and shown to renters, not required.

Three things cost a penalty, each naming the rental: a pod that could not be removed from your node, a node silent for over an hour while rented, or a rented pod you force-closed. Only that rental’s fees for two days are withheld and the renter is refunded. If the cause was not on your side, open a support ticket with the node and rental id and the penalty is reverted.

Every node starts Secure: it earns rental fees and idle pay, and takes a penalty if it interrupts a rental. You can switch an unrented node to Spot: still rentable, no idle pay, no penalties, and renters see a Spot badge that tells them the pod may be interrupted.

No. Rental containers and the volumes attached to them are off limits to the provider: accessing, inspecting, copying from or interfering with them is a permanent ban. If an operation of yours has to touch a rented pod, ask the Lium team first through the official support flow.