--- sidebar_position: 2 title: Rental fees description: Your share of every USD a renter pays for your GPUs, paid daily in alpha. --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lium.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rental fees When a renter books your GPUs on the Lium platform, they pay an hourly USD price. That payment is split: you receive your share, and Lium retains the platform fee. Earnings are billed daily and paid to your coldkey in alpha tokens. ## What is a rental fee? A rental fee is the USD amount a renter pays per hour (or per epoch) for access to your GPUs. The price is set by you (the provider) and displayed on the Lium portal. When a renter books GPUs for 10 hours at $1.26/GPU/hour for 2 GPUs, the total rental fee is $25.20. This fee is split between you and Lium daily. You receive your share; Lium covers infrastructure costs (billing, on-chain transfers, validator operations, API hosting). ## Your share You earn of every rental payment. This value is configured in production and cannot be changed per-provider; it is the same for all providers on Subnet 51. **Example:** If a renter pays $100 for your GPUs in a day, you receive × $100 in alpha-token equivalent, paid to your coldkey. ## How the price is set You set the hourly price for your GPUs using the **Provider Portal** → **Executor Management** interface or the CLI. The CLI command runs **inside the self-hosted provider Docker container** — replace `` with your container name (e.g. from `docker ps`): ```bash docker exec pdm run src/cli.py update-executor-price \ --address --port --price ``` The `update-executor-price` command sets the hourly rate on the executor. This rate is advertised to renters and used to calculate daily billing. For self-hosted provider setup, see [Self-hosted provider](../self-hosted-provider.md). ### Price limits **You cannot freely set any price** — two constraints apply: - **Portal floor (0.5×)**: The portal rejects prices below 0.5× the GPU model's reference price with an HTTP 400 error. - **Portal hard cap (3×)**: The portal rejects prices above 3× the GPU model's reference price with an HTTP 400 error. Current limits are 0.5× (floor) and 3.0× (ceiling) of the GPU model's reference price. Fetch the live reference prices from: ```bash curl https://lium.io/api/machines ``` For the full explanation of both caps, see [Price limits](../portal/managing-nodes.md#price-limits) in Managing Nodes. ## Where to see your history Log in to the **Provider Portal** at [provider.lium.io/dashboard](https://provider.lium.io/dashboard) and navigate to **Payments**. You will see: - Daily rental income (in USD equivalent and alpha received) - Rental utilization by node - Historical trends - Unpaid balance (if any) For details on payout mechanics and the current feature-flag status, see [Getting Paid](./payouts.mdx). ## When fees are withheld Your rental earnings are forfeited for a day if your node experiences a misbehavior event (crash, job failure, SLA breach). Misbehavior is detected by validators during job execution and task verification. **Common triggers:** - Node becomes unreachable (network issue, crash) - Job execution fails or times out - Reported metrics (uptime, hardware) do not match actual conditions If you receive a misbehavior warning, check your node logs immediately and restart the service. A single day of decline is the consequence; sustained misbehavior may result in a reduced validator weight, lowering emission earnings as well.