Spot Market

Auction-style interruptible rentals: bid your own price per day and rent GPUs at the lowest cost on the marketplace.

SPOT is the auction side of the Clore.ai marketplace. Instead of paying the listed on-demand price, you place a bid: your own price per day for a server. While your offer is the winning one, the server runs your workload and you are billed per minute at your bid. It is the cheapest way to rent, in exchange for the risk of being interrupted.

Pricing	Your bid, at or above the host's minimum spot price
Billing	Per minute, at your bid price, only while your offer holds the server
Interruption	Another renter can outbid you at any time; an on-demand rental also takes the server
Base fee	2.5% (vs 10% on-demand), reducible by up to 50% with PoH
Scope	Whole servers only (partial rental is on-demand only)

How Bidding Works

1. Pick a server on the marketplace and press Rent. Go through the usual steps (image, configuration), and at the Confirm & pay step switch to Rent on spot.

2. Enter your bid: any price per day at or above the host's minimum spot price. If it beats the current winning offer, your order starts.

3. While your offer holds the server, you are billed per minute at your bid. If someone outbids you, your order ends with the Outbid status and billing stops immediately.

4. Your offer competes with others on the same server. You can check the queue and manage bids from My Orders.

Managing Your Bid

• Raising your bid is unrestricted: do it any time to defend the server.

• Lowering is rate-limited to protect hosts: at most once every 10 minutes, by a limited step per move, and never below the host's minimum spot price.

Spot orders cannot be extended and can end at any moment. Checkpoint your work: save intermediate results to persistent storage or externally, so an interruption costs you minutes, not hours.

What Runs Well on Spot

• Cryptocurrency mining and other restartable compute

• Batch processing and render queues with checkpoints

• Hyperparameter sweeps and experiments

• Anything fault-tolerant where price matters more than uptime

Not sure whether you need Spot or On-Demand? See the side-by-side guide:

On-Demand vs Spot

For Hosts

You set the minimum spot price per server (or per GPU, with optional USD-based auto-recalculation) in your server settings. Spot keeps your hardware earning between on-demand rentals: an on-demand order always takes priority and replaces the active spot order.

Server Management

Automation

Spot is fully scriptable through the public API: create_order with "type": "spot" and spotprice, spot_marketplace to read the offer queue for a server, and set_spot_price to manage your bid. The Python SDK and CLI cover the same operations.

API