--- 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 95% 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 95% × $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** → **Node 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 node. 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** — but only the portal rejects prices up front. The CLI command above accepts any non-negative number and writes it straight into the node's local database: - **Floor** (`machine_min_price_rate` × the GPU model's reference price): the portal rejects it with HTTP 400. Nothing else on the platform checks the floor. - **Hard cap** (`machine_max_price_rate` × the reference price): the portal rejects it with HTTP 400, and a price set any other way is still caught — the platform stops saving or refreshing the node, so it drops off the marketplace, and the validator scores it `0`. - **Soft limit** (the GPU model's market p90 × `soft_limit_price_rate`): nothing is rejected; an idle node priced above it stays rentable but earns no unrented incentive — see [Price and the unrented incentive](./emission.mdx#price-and-the-unrented-incentive). Both the floor and hard-cap multipliers (`0.5` and `2.5` today) are platform settings Lium retunes. Read the allowed range from the machines endpoint, which carries it per GPU model as `p_min` and `p_max` alongside the reference `price`: ```bash curl https://lium.io/api/machines ``` For the full explanation of all three limits, 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 If a rental fails because of a problem on your node, that rental's fees for the day it fails and the day before are withheld and refunded to the renter. See [Penalties](./penalties.mdx) for the triggers, the exemptions, and how to dispute one.