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Providers

Lium pays you for your GPU while nobody rents it. A provider earns twice: a share of the rental fee while a renter uses the GPU, paid to your coldkey once a day, and idle pay while it sits unrented — up to the validator's idle rate per GPU-hour for GPU types in the unrented pool, paid as subnet 51 stake on your hotkey every tempo (~72 minutes). The Rewards Calculator estimates a month's pay per GPU type; the Quickstart checklist lists what a node needs to keep its idle pay.

Contribute GPU resources to the Lium network and earn rewards. As a provider, you operate a self-hosted provider (a lightweight CPU coordinator) that connects one or more GPU nodes — each node earns you rewards proportional to its performance and validator scores.

By default Lium runs that coordinator for you: every new Provider Portal account starts on the Lium.io Central Provider Server, the setup we recommend. You can run a self-hosted provider yourself instead — see the Provider Configuration page.

  • Get started in 5 min — register, configure, and launch your first provider
  • Rewards — understand earnings, fees, and payouts
  • Architecture — mental model of how the coordinator, nodes, validators, and Provider Portal fit together
  • Provider Configuration — pick between self-hosting the coordinator or using the Lium.io Central Provider Server
  • Self-hosted provider setup — full install guide for the do-it-yourself coordinator
  • Nodes — bring GPU nodes online (CLI quickstart, manual setup, Sysbox, GPU splitting, CVM)
  • Provider Portal — manage nodes and pricing via the web UI