Hosting Overview
Requirements to Become a Host
Overview
GPU Trader offers an inventory of Data Center GPUs sourced from an ecosystem of trusted providers. For a service fee, GPU Trader promotes provider GPUs, conducts robust Know Your Customer (KYC) practices to ensure the safety of our users and prevent abuse, manages the connection between user and rental and manages the financial transaction between parties of those rentals.
A GPU Trader merchant is a provider of GPU capacity that has chosen to host and list that capacity on the GPU Trader platform for consumption by end users. GPU Trader allows merchants to choose the listing type: ‘On-demand’ or ‘Reserved’. GPU Trader also allows merchants to provide “Availability Windows”, which dictate the times devices are available to be rented.
Once listed, GPU Trader promotes the available capacity. Once rented, we facilitate the connection to the device via a containerized agent installed by the merchant and manage the financial transaction for the GPU rental. The merchant will receive payment from GPU Trader for the rental minus GPU Trader’s fee and any taxes required for remittance.
Requirements
- Review our minimum requirements to ensure that your business and hardware are eligible to be listed on the marketplace.
- New hosts are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. If you believe that you meet the minimum requirements to host on GPU Trader and have at least 32 GPUs to be placed on the marketplace, contact us through this form.
- Providers that are invited to list GPUs on the marketplace will receive a welcome email. When they log in for the first time after receiving the welcome email, they will see additional merchant tools in the navigation menu.
Service Fee
GPU Trader charges a 20% service fee to list on the platform. Included in this fee:
- GPU Promotion
- KYC
- Secure connection to host GPU
- Transaction management
Pricing Model
The GPU Trader platform allows you to rent high-performance GPUs on an hourly basis or through reserved instances. With reserved instances, suppliers offer lower hourly rates for renters who commit to daily, monthly or multi-month rental terms. This flexibility lets you select the best option for your workload and budget, whether you need on-demand, short-term, or cost-saving longer reserved instances.
How Pricing Works
- Supplier-Set Rates: The rental rate for each GPU is determined by the individual supplier. Rates vary based on GPU specifications, bandwidth features, and geographic location, offering a range of options to fit various budget and performance requirements.
- Pricing Transparency: Before confirming a rental, the Platform provides a detailed cost breakdown that includes the supplier’s rate for the selected GPU and any additional features or fees.
- Billing: Your rental period starts once the instance is successfully deployed. If renting hourly, you are billed hourly until you choose to stop or pause the instance. Charges reflect the actual hours used. If renting a reserved instance, you are responsible for paying for the entire reserved period, but are billed on a monthly basis, in advance.
KYC
GPU Trader leverages the Stripe payment platform to handle both the incoming fees from Renters (payments), as well as the outgoing disbursements to our Merchants (Connected-account transfers). For Renters, this KYC is managed leveraging Stripe’s fraud detection system, which varies depending on payment type (credit card, third party wallets like Apple Pay, or ACH Debits). For Merchants, when they are onboarded as a Stripe Connected Account, Stripe will also validate that the Merchant meets the KYC requirements. See the Stripe Documentation for more information.
Billing and Payouts
Users are billed monthly. Once users are billed and funds have settled in GPU Trader’s account, GPU Trader will pay out providers the rental revenue minus GPU Trader’s service fee. The service fee is calculated from the total value rented for each billing period.