Rent out your GPU: gross earnings calculator

This page is for owners considering marketplace supply. If you want to rent GPU capacity as a buyer, use the live rental grid or the GPU server guide. Supplier earnings and renter prices stay separate because the platform's share is not in the offer ledger.

Formula: gross $/mo = market $/hr × 730 h × utilization % × cards. With electricity:power $/mo = watts ÷ 1000 × $/kWh × 730 h × utilization % (draw counted only while rented; idle draw ignored, so the real power bill is slightly higher). Marketplace fees, internet, cooling and hardware wear are not included: this is gross, not profit.

Gross earnings are your card's renter-facing hourly market rate times the hours it is actually rented. Utilization is the variable that dominates the outcome, and idle hours earn nothing. The calculator anchors the rate to the cheapest verified spot or community rental price we track for each card across SaladCloud, Google Cloud, RunPod, Prime Intellect, Spheron, Microsoft Azure, Vultr, AWS. That rate is a ceiling before the platform's share, not a promised host payout.

Three reasons. First, marketplaces take a cut of what the renter pays, and the split varies by platform, so the renter-facing rate is a ceiling, not your payout. Second, utilization: your card only earns while someone is renting it, and idle hours earn nothing. Third, costs: electricity, internet, hardware wear and your time all come out of the gross number. This calculator shows gross earnings with an optional electricity deduction; platform fees are not included because they differ per marketplace.

It depends almost entirely on your electricity price and how many hours the card actually gets rented. With cheap power and steady demand for a sought-after card, hosting can offset part of the hardware cost over time. With expensive power or low utilization, the margin can shrink to nothing. Run your own numbers above, then compare against the rent-vs-buy calculator to see the other side of the same market.

There is no reliable winner without utilization and platform payout data. The dropdown shows current renter-facing spot or community rates for the GPU families in the ledger, but a higher listed rate does not prove that a host will receive more demand or net profit.