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. An account created with an e-mail address or Google is paid its rental share in a US-dollar stablecoin, with its idle pay, to the payout address it adds in Settings → Payout. 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. An account created with an e-mail address or Google earns it too. To qualify, 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. A Spot node is paid while free only when a Lium Default Job runs on it, at most the Secure rate.

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.

Three things cost a penalty, each naming the rental: a rental that ends while your node is inactive (silent for over 45 minutes, or failing a check), a rented pod you close yourself, or a pod that could not be removed from your node. The first two cost up to 24 hours of the rental’s price (the docs below give the conditions; a notice period set 24 hours ahead can waive the first), taken from your later payouts where the rental earned less, 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.

Nodes default to Spot; you can choose Secure when adding a node or change the tier later. Spot: still rentable, idle pay only while a Lium Default Job runs on it (at most the Secure rate), no penalties, and renters see a Spot badge that tells them the pod may be interrupted. Secure: it earns rental fees and idle pay, and takes a penalty if it interrupts a rental.

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.