Rent a GPU by the hour, pay only for the minutes
On VRAMfarm prices are per hour, but you are billed per minute from a prepaid balance: a 40-minute job costs 40 minutes, with a minimum of 15 minutes per launch. No contract, no monthly fee, no card held on file for overage. Cards start at €0.12 an hour.
Hourly prices
| GPU | Type | Memory | TFLOPS FP32 | Where | Price per hour | ≈ per month | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 | consumer | 12 GB | ≈12.7 | +10 | €0.12/h | €86 per month | Rent |
| RTX 3080 | consumer | 10 GB | ≈29.8 | +6 | €0.17/h | €122 per month | Rent |
| RTX 3090 | consumer | 24 GB | ≈35.6 | +15 | €0.30/h | €216 per month | Rent |
| RTX 4090 | consumer | 24 GB | ≈82.6 | +16 | €0.59/h | €425 per month | Rent |
| RTX 5090 | consumer | 32 GB | ≈104.8 | +15 | €0.76/h | €547 per month | Rent |
| L40S | data centre | 48 GB | ≈91.6 | +1 | €1.06/h | €763 per month | Rent |
| A100 | data centre | 80 GB | ≈19.5 | +2 | €1.46/h | €1,051 per month | Rent |
| H100 | data centre | 80 GB | ≈67 | +1 | €3.90/h | €2,808 per month | Rent |
| H200 | data centre | 141 GB | ≈67 | +2 | €5.43/h | €3,910 per month | Rent |
| B200 | data centre | 192 GB | ≈80 | €16.12/h | €11,606 per month | Rent |
To launch, your balance must cover one hour of the machine. You are billed by the minute for actual use.
How billing works
Price fixed at launch
Catalogue prices follow the market and can change during the day. The per-minute price of your server is fixed when you start it.
Billing starts when it is ready
The 2–5 minutes of preparation are free. Billing starts when SSH and Jupyter answer, and stops the minute you stop the server.
Idle protection
If the server has no SSH, Jupyter or GPU load for 2 hours, we email you; an hour later it saves your folder and stops.
Prepaid, in euros
Top up from €10 by card or SEPA. Unspent paid balance can be refunded to the original payment method on request.
Why per minute matters
Most AI sessions are not whole hours: you test a prompt, render a batch, check a model. With hourly rounding a 70-minute session costs two hours. Per-minute billing charges 70 minutes, and over a month of short sessions the difference adds up to a third or more.
When hourly rental beats buying
An RTX 4090 costs about €1,800 in November 2026. At €0.59 an hour that is well over a thousand hours of rental before buying pays off, without counting electricity. If you use a GPU a few hours a week, renting is cheaper; if it works 8 hours every day, buying starts to make sense. The rent or buy guide does the full sum.
What else you pay for
Traffic: downloads, including model downloads, are billed per GB at the machine’s rate shown before launch. And the saved folder, if you keep one: €0.03 per GB a month. Nothing else.
Three sessions in a week
Forty minutes on Monday, two hours on Wednesday, twenty-five minutes on Friday on an RTX 4090: 3 hours 5 minutes in total, about €1.82. With hourly rounding you would pay for 5 hours.
Guides on this
11 November 2026 GPU rental billing explained: per minute, 15-minute minimum, traffic and storage
When billing starts and stops, why the price is locked at launch, what traffic and the saved folder cost, and a full session bill worked out minute by minute.
12 November 2026 Don't pay for an idle GPU: auto-stop, tmux and stopping from code
A forgotten RTX 4090 runs 15 hours overnight. Idle auto-stop cuts that to about 3. What counts as activity, tmux for night jobs, and a one-line stop from code.
11 November 2026 What happens to your files when you stop a GPU server, and how to keep them
Stop wipes the server disk. Save and stop keeps /workspace for €0.03 per GB a month, on any card. When to store models, when to download again.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a minimum rental time?
Each launch is billed for at least 15 minutes, then minute by minute.
Can I rent a GPU for a whole month?
Yes, the server runs as long as you want while there is money on the balance. Per-minute billing applies all the time, so stopping for a weekend saves those days.
What happens when the balance runs out?
The server stops without saving the disk. Keep a margin on the balance for long jobs; we email you when it gets low.
Do I need a subscription?
No. There is no subscription and no monthly fee. You top up when you want and pay only for what runs.
Pay for minutes, not hours
Sign up, top up from €10 and start a server; stop it when the job is done.