About Lium
Lium is a GPU rental marketplace at lium.io. Renters rent GPU pods at an hourly price and are billed per second. Providers list their machines at their own price and receive 95% of what renters pay for the rental.
This page lists facts about Lium that anyone can check, each with a link to where it is published. Last reviewed September 23, 2026.
What Lium is
Lium is a marketplace for GPU compute. Independent providers connect their machines, called nodes, and renters rent GPU capacity on them as containers, called pods.
Source: Terms of Service
Live GPU prices and availability are public, and reading them needs no account.
Source: lium.io/pricing · lium.io/llms.txt
How renting works
Every pod has an hourly price, and billing is per second with no minimum rental period.
Source: Pricing FAQ · Billing docs
Starting a pod needs a balance that covers 15 minutes of that pod. Billing stops when the pod is deleted or its scheduled end time arrives.
Source: Pricing FAQ · Billing docs
The service is prepaid. Renters top up a balance, and pods draw on it per second while they exist.
Source: Terms of Service
How providers are paid
Each provider sets its own price per GPU-hour for its machines.
Source: Pricing FAQ
The provider receives 95% of what the renter pays for the rental. The share is the same for every provider.
Source: Pricing FAQ · Provider rental fees docs
Providers are paid their share of rental fees daily.
Source: Provider rental fees docs
Providers set their prices and see their payments in the Provider Portal at provider.lium.io.
Source: Provider rental fees docs
How to pay
Renters top up their balance by card, processed by Stripe, or in supported cryptocurrencies.
Source: Terms of Service
Every card top-up gets a Stripe invoice, and renters can put a company name, address and tax ID on it.
Source: Invoices docs
Tools for developers and AI agents
The lium command-line tool installs with one command: curl -fsSL https://lium.io/install.sh | bash.
The lium.io Python package ships the CLI and a Python SDK for managing pods from code.
Source: SDK docs · pypi.org/project/lium.io
The platform REST API is described in OpenAPI 3.1 at lium.io/api/openapi.json.
Source: lium.io/api/openapi.json
The documentation site runs a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at docs.lium.io/mcp, so AI agents can search and read the docs.
Source: MCP endpoint docs
An agent skill for AI coding agents is published at github.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill.
A machine-readable summary of Lium is at lium.io/llms.txt, and the GPU price table is served as JSON at lium.io/pricing.json.
Source: lium.io/llms.txt · lium.io/pricing.json
Support and contact
The support email address is support@lium.io.
Source: docs.lium.io/intro · OpenAPI contact
Support tickets are opened in the #tickets channel of the official Lium Discord server. The support page lists the official channels and how to spot impersonators.
The company and its policies
Lium is operated by Datura AI Corp, a company incorporated in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Source: Terms of Service · Privacy Policy
Datura AI Corp is the party to the Terms of Service and the controller named in the Privacy Policy, which explains what personal data Lium collects and how it is used.
Source: Terms of Service · Privacy Policy
Lium enforces a ban on access to its compute from US-embargoed countries and by sanctioned parties.
Official profiles
The source code of the CLI and Python SDK, the agent skill and the provider software is public under the Datura-ai organization on GitHub.
Source: github.com/Datura-ai · Datura-ai/lium
Lium posts on X as @lium_io and runs a community and support server on Discord.
Source: x.com/lium_io · discord.gg/lium
Key facts
| Name | Lium |
|---|---|
| Website | lium.io |
| Operator | Datura AI Corp |
| Incorporated in | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Category | GPU compute marketplace (cloud GPU rental) |
| Product | NVIDIA GPU pods (containers on provider machines), billed per second |
| Ways to use it | Web dashboard, CLI, Python SDK, REST API, agent skill |
| Payment | Prepaid balance, by card (Stripe) or cryptocurrency |
| Provider share | 95% of the rental payment |
| Documentation | docs.lium.io |
| Source code | github.com/Datura-ai |
| Python package | lium.io on PyPI |
| Support | support@lium.io |
GPUs on the marketplace
The marketplace groups GPU models into data center, professional and consumer classes. The list below is read from the public price feed at lium.io/pricing.json and refreshed about once an hour. Live prices and availability for each model are on the pricing page.
Data center
Professional
Consumer
Source: lium.io/pricing.json
For AI agents — CLI install, agent skill, headless signup: llms-full.txt