Available balance
Available balance
The part of your wallet you can spend on a new rental. Excludes
reserved (held against running rentals). Shown in the top-right pill.Auto-topup
Auto-topup
Automatic Stripe charge to refill your wallet when it dips below a
threshold. Requires a saved card. See
Topping up.
Family
Family
A GPU model line (e.g.
h100-80gb). Distinct from a listing, which
is one provider’s specific offering within that family.Family ID
Family ID
The canonical string identifier for a family in the API:
rtx-4090, rtx-5090, a100-80gb, h100-80gb, b200, b300.Ledger
Ledger
Append-only history of every wallet movement. Read via
GET /v1/billing/ledger.
Listing
Listing
One provider’s specific offering: “vast.ai, US-East, 1× H100 SXM 80GB,
$2.80/hr”. The catalog returns many listings per family; the rental
orchestrator picks the cheapest matching one.
Pod
Pod
Slang for an instance. We use them interchangeably across the docs.
Prepaid wallet
Prepaid wallet
Our billing model — you deposit credit, instances burn it per second.
No invoices, no monthly bills.
Provider
Provider
An upstream marketplace or cloud we source GPUs from. We hide
differences behind a unified API; you don’t usually interact with the
provider name (it’s surfaced read-only on rental details).
Reserved balance
Reserved balance
The portion of your wallet held against currently-running rentals.
Each rental reserves 1 hour at its rate. As the rental runs, the
reserve drains.
Rental
Rental
A single instance lifecycle from launch to settlement. Identified by a
rent_… ULID. Synonyms: instance, pod.Session cookie / sid
Session cookie / sid
Template
Template
The starting image for a pod:
ubuntu-24-04, pytorch, vllm, etc.
See Instances.ULID
ULID
The 26-character ID format used everywhere
(
01HZ3J9X8K2P5T7R4W1Q6Y8M0E). Sortable by creation time,
URL-safe, no hyphens. Prefixed with type (usr_, rent_, etc.) for
legibility.VRAM
VRAM
GPU memory, in GB. The number you care about for whether your model
fits.
Wallet
Wallet
The per-user credit balance. There’s exactly one per account. Three
numbers: available, reserved, total.
Webhook
Webhook
Outbound HTTP call from Stripe to our server confirming an event
(
checkout.session.completed, setup_intent.succeeded, etc.). We
require these to trust that Stripe really collected the money.