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 seller’s specific machine 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.
Listing
Listing
One seller’s specific machine on the marketplace — a GPU model, VRAM,
region, and hourly price. The catalog returns many listings per family; the
marketplace surfaces 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.
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.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.Marketplace
Marketplace
The two sides of GPU Outlet: the buyer catalog of machines you can rent,
and the Sell side where you list your own GPU box. See
Sell your GPUs.
On-demand
On-demand
The service tier billed at the headline price and never reclaimed — the
machine is yours until you stop it.
Seller Rating
Seller Rating
A 0–100 score on each supplier listing that blends uptime, cleanly finished
sessions, buyer ratings, support responsiveness, honest specs, and time on
the platform.
Service tier
Service tier
How you rent a machine: On-demand or Spot — a trade-off between price
and how long you’re guaranteed to keep the GPU. See
Instances → Service tiers.
Spot
Spot
A cheaper service tier that may be reclaimed if a full-price on-demand buyer
needs the GPU. You’re only charged for the time you actually ran.
Spot
Spot
The cheapest service tier, and the first to be reclaimed when a full-price
buyer needs the GPU. Save your work often.
Verified
Verified
A badge on a supplier listing shown once the machine has passed automated
hardware checks (model, memory, and a quick benchmark).
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.