Founding host program · First 50 only
Program closes once 50 hosts are onboarded · Standard rates apply after

First 50 hosts.
Founding rates
for a year.

We're onboarding our first 50 hosts personally. Reduced 5% platform fee locked in for 12 months, lifetime priority in the marketplace, and direct access to our engineering team. See what your GPU could earn — as a Founding Host.

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USD or USDC No volatile tokens, ever
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15 min setup List and start earning fast
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Paid instantly Every rental, no delays

Earnings calculator

Live
Your GPU
Utilization 75%
Electricity cost $0.15/kWh
Gross rental income —
Electricity —
STANDARD 10% platform fee
$0/mo
FOUNDING 5% fee · locked 12 months
$0/mo
+ $0 /month · $0 /first year as Founding
Claim your founding slot
Where the rentals come from

Not one type of demand. Three.

Regular platforms give hosts one stream — random on-demand rentals. That's why most GPUs sit idle 70% of the time. Our hosts see three.

01 · Stream one
On-demand rentals

ML developers renting for training runs, fine-tuning, and experiments. Sessions from minutes to weeks. This is the volatile baseline — always some demand, never predictable.

Type Variable · session-based
02 · Stream two
Personal AI hosting

Users hosting Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek as their personal AI assistants — because they want privacy, speed, or no API limits. They need a persistent GPU endpoint they can rely on. Each client = 20–40 hours of predictable monthly load.

Type Recurring · predictable monthly income
03 · Stream three
Model Crowdfunding Coming soon

Communities pool funds to train specialized models — medical, legal, niche verticals — before the compute is used. Pre-funded rentals go on schedule, allocated to Founding Hosts first. Demand booked ahead, not hoped for.

Type Pre-funded · scheduled
The founding host program

What you get as one of the first 50.

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Lifetime priority placement
Standard host: default sort You: featured

Your GPU listing appears above standard hosts in the marketplace. Not for a year — for as long as AntGPU exists.

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White-glove onboarding
Standard host: docs + support ticket You: engineer on call

A real engineer walks you through setup, tests your machine, and stays on Telegram/Discord for anything you hit.

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Founding host recognition
Standard host: anonymous You: named contributor

A visible badge on your public profile. Your name on our Founding 50 page. Recognition for being here before it was obvious.

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Host referral rewards
Platform fee: 10% You earn: 50% of our fee

Invite other GPU owners to AntGPU and share your verified wallet address. When they register as machine owners and enter your wallet, you receive 50% of AntGPU's platform fee from every completed rental powered by their machines, paid in USDC.

A note from the team

Real engineers. Real conversations.

Every founding host application lands with a real engineer on our team. Setup calls happen with people who wrote the code. If something breaks, you're talking to whoever can fix it — usually within the hour.

We're building this marketplace with the first 50 people who show up. That's not a marketing line — it's the operating model.

The Alternative

Most GPU rental platforms are stuck in 2021.

The old way
Old-school peer marketplaces
  • Paid every two weeks — if payouts work at all
  • Payouts in whatever crypto they use this year
  • Platform sets pricing "for your safety"
  • No visibility into who's renting your hardware
  • Support means opening a ticket into the void
The AntGPU way
Built for how hosting should actually work
  • Paid instantly after every rental, in USD or USDC
  • You pick the price. You keep 90%.
  • Verified renters, isolated workloads, full transparency
  • Direct channel to a human on the team
  • No lock-in — pause or delist any time
Under the hood

Isolation by design, not by promise.

Four layers of separation between the renter's workload and your machine. Not marketing — engineering.

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Container isolation

Every rental spins up in a fresh Docker container with its own filesystem, network namespace, and process tree. The renter's session is completely separated from your host OS. They never touch your files.

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Exclusive GPU access

The renter gets full, dedicated GPU access for their session — but only the GPU. No shared drivers, no memory leakage between workloads, no visibility into what your machine is doing outside the container.

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Automatic cleanup

When a session ends, the container is destroyed and disk state is wiped. Nothing persists between renters. The next person to rent your GPU starts from a completely clean slate.

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Workload monitoring

We automatically flag suspicious patterns — crypto mining, sustained network abuse, credential scanning. Violators are removed from the platform. Hosts get covered for damages if abuse slips through.

Common questions

What hosts actually ask us.

"Can they see my files?"
No. Every rental runs in a Docker container with no access to your host filesystem. They see the GPU. Nothing else.
"What if they use my GPU for something illegal?"
Our monitoring flags crypto mining, DDoS traffic, and credential scanning automatically. If abuse slips through, we cover damages and ban the renter. Your machine and your reputation are protected.
"What if my hardware fails while someone's renting?"
No penalty. The renter is refunded automatically. You keep whatever they've already paid for completed hours, and we don't touch your reliability score for failures outside your control.
"Can I stop a rental if I don't like what's happening?"
Yes. One click. The container is killed immediately, the renter is disconnected, and you're offline until you restart. No approval required from us.

Founding slots close
at 50 hosts.

Setup takes 15 minutes. Your engineer walks you through it. First payout after your first rental — in USD or USDC, your choice.

Claim founding slot
Once we reach 50 founding hosts, the program closes for good.