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# Partial GPU Rental

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.

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## 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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