Partial GPU Rental

Rent only the GPUs you need on a multi-GPU server and pay a proportional price.

Partial rental lets you rent a subset of the GPUs on a multi-GPU server instead of the whole rig. If a host offers an 8x RTX 4090 machine and you need two cards, you rent two and pay for two.

Partial rental is rolling out gradually. It appears only on servers whose hosts run the latest hosting software and have not opted out, so at any given moment only part of the marketplace offers it. Coverage grows as hosts update.

How It Works (Renters)

1. Turn on the Partial GPU rental filter (there is also a Min. available GPUs filter), or look for the N/M GPUs free badge on supported server cards.

2. In the rent dialog, pick the GPUs you want in the GPU allocation step. The price scales with your share: renting 2 of 8 GPUs costs 2/8 of the full-server price.

3. Complete checkout as usual. Your order runs in an isolated container with exactly the GPUs assigned to you.

Good to know:

• On-Demand only. Spot bidding always takes the whole server.

• Homogeneous rigs only. Partial rental is available only on servers where all GPUs are the same model. Mixed-GPU rigs can be rented whole-rig only.

• Several renters can share one machine, each with their own isolated container and dedicated GPUs. A single GPU is never shared between two orders.

• GPUs are dedicated to your order, while the machine's CPU, RAM, and disk are shared with any other orders running on the same server.

• Billing stays per minute, and the regular fee structure applies.

For Hosts

• Partial rental is enabled by default on eligible servers (homogeneous GPUs, up-to-date hosting software). You can opt out per server in your server settings.

• While a server is partially rented, overclocking changes are blocked (Apply shows a warning).

• Pricing follows your regular per-server settings; renters pay proportionally per GPU.

API

Marketplace listings expose availability in the partial_gpu_rental field: false when unavailable, or an object with total_gpus, available_gpus, and free_indices. To create a partial order, pass gpu_count to create_order, and optionally gpu_indices to pick exact slots. When gpu_indices is omitted, free GPUs are assigned automatically.

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