How to become a Host?

Our Community Cloud empowers hosts to offer their compute on our platform. Currently, we only support NVIDIA GPU servers.

Server Requirements

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
At least 2 Physical Core Per GPU + 1 extra for System.
- 2x 3090s should have at least 5 Cores.
- 4x A6000 should have at least 9 Cores.
Latest GPUs, at least 30xx or RTX A4000 or higher.
- PCIE 3 x16 per GPU or PCIE 4 x8.
RAM 4 GB + Total VRAM of all GPUs
- 2x 3090s should have (24+24+4) 52 GB RAM.
- 4x A6000 should have (48+48+48+48+4) 196 GB RAM.
1 TB disk space at minimum, 2 TB for 4 GPUs, 3 TB for 8 GPUs
- At least 150 MB/s read speed required.
- Disk speed test: hdparm -tv {device}
100 Mb/s Down / 50 Mb/s Up at minimum per server.
Public IP support (20 ports per GPU).
- Single IP can be shared between multiple servers.

RunPod service fee is 24%
- We cover ~4% Stripe payment fees.
- Also 2% referral and 1% template program is included as well -- (learn more)
GPU on-demand prices are standard; you can set min bid price for spot.
We only accept Hosts with at least 12 GPUs with at least 24 GB VRAM GPU or 4 GPUs with at least 48 GB VRAM GPU.
We require KYC for all hosts to protect our users and deter any fraud.