GPU rental, billed per second
Lium is a GPU rental marketplace. Independent providers list their machines and set their own prices, and you rent a GPU pod on demand from the website, the lium CLI, the Python SDK or the REST API. Every pod has an hourly price and is billed per second.
H100: from $1.70 per GPU-hour, 61 free right now. Live H100 prices
Find the cheapest GPU of a model, rent it for at most an hour, remove it
pip install lium.io export LIUM_API_KEY=sk_... lium ls --gpu H100 --format json # cheapest first; pick a node id lium up <node-id> --yes --no-ssh --ttl 1h --name my-job lium rm my-job
Which GPUs you can rent
Data center GPUs (H100, H200, B200, B300, A100, L40S) and RTX cards (RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX PRO 6000 and others), from one GPU to whole 8-GPU machines. Each GPU has its own page with its live price and how many are free right now.
lium.io/pricing lists every model with its live price range, and lium.io/pricing.json has the same data for scripts. Neither needs an account.
Cheap GPU cloud
Providers set their own prices, so the same GPU is often listed at several prices. lium ls sorts by price, cheapest first.
Per-second billing, no minimum rental period and no contract. A pod rented with --ttl removes itself when the time is up, so a forgotten pod does not keep billing.
How renting works
Pick a node, choose a template (PyTorch, Jupyter, a plain image or your own Docker image) and the pod starts with SSH access. Volumes keep data between pods.
Pay by card. An API key can carry a spend limit, so a script or an AI agent can rent within a budget.
Frequently asked questions
Is the GPU I want always available?
Not always. GPUs are rented from independent providers, so a model can be fully rented at times. Each GPU page shows how many are free right now, and lium ls lists the current nodes.
How is a pod billed?
Every pod has an hourly price and is billed per second, with no minimum rental period. Billing stops when the pod is removed. A pod rented with --ttl removes itself when the time is up.
Can an AI agent do this without a browser?
Yes. Signup, API keys, renting, running commands and removal all work from the CLI or the REST API with no browser and no e-mail confirmation. docs.lium.io/developers/agents is the one-page guide.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt