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Everything to get you running in 5 minutes โ€” renting a GPU, or earning from one. Stuck anywhere? support@gridshare.in or the ๐Ÿ›Ÿ Get help button on any running instance.

Rent a GPU BUYERS

From zero to a running GPU notebook:

  1. Create your account.

    Sign up at gridshare.in/marketplace with your email and verify it (we send a one-time code). No credit card needed.

  2. Top up your wallet with UPI.

    Add money from โ‚น100 via UPI/Razorpay โ€” no forex card, no USD. Every top-up gets a proper GST tax invoice (in your company's name if you set a GSTIN โ€” useful for expensing).

  3. Pick a GPU.

    The marketplace shows live machines with the exact โ‚น/hr rate, VRAM, and a measured compute score. Filter by VRAM or price. What you see is what you pay โ€” one honest rate, no hidden tiers.

  4. Launch a template.

    One click: PyTorch + JupyterLab, Stable Diffusion, Ollama/LLM chat, Whisper, VS Code, and 20+ more. The instance boots and shows Open (browser) and SSH buttons when ready โ€” first launch on a node can take a few minutes while the image downloads.

  5. Work.

    Everything under /workspace is yours and auto-saved (~every 30 seconds). Billing is per second โ€” the dashboard shows the live meter.

  6. Stop when done.

    Hit Stop โ€” billing stops that second. Your workspace is snapshotted, so restarting later puts your files back. Balance running low? We warn you by email, and the instance auto-stops before you can go negative.

If a machine dies mid-run: your work doesn't. GridShare auto-saves your workspace and relocates it to another GPU (never a pricier one without your OK), refunds any un-served time, and your open tab follows the move. This is the core of the product โ€” read how it works.

Earn from your GPU PROVIDERS

One command installs the agent. Your machine only serves work when it's idle โ€” the moment you touch the keyboard, rented jobs pause.

๐ŸŸข Linux โ€” NVIDIA

curl -fsSL https://gridshare.in/dl/install.sh | sudo bash

Ubuntu/Debian, driver 520+, Docker installed automatically.

๐Ÿ”ด Linux โ€” AMD (ROCm)

curl -fsSL https://gridshare.in/dl/install-amd.sh | sudo bash

RX 6000/7000 series. ROCm set up by the installer.

๐ŸชŸ Windows โ€” NVIDIA

irm https://gridshare.in/dl/install.ps1 | iex

Windows 10/11 with WSL2. The script handles WSL setup.

๐ŸŽ macOS โ€” Apple Silicon

curl -fsSL https://gridshare.in/dl/install-mac.sh | bash

Any M-series Mac. Native agent โ€” no Docker needed.

  1. Run the installer and enter your name + UPI ID when asked. You get an API key โ€” save it.
  2. Your node appears in your provider dashboard within a minute, priced automatically by GPU model (you always earn 70% of what buyers pay).
  3. Get paid to your UPI.

    Choose daily, weekly or monthly payouts. A small transfer fee applies per payout (capped between โ‚น5โ€“โ‚น12 depending on frequency) โ€” fewer, bigger payouts keep more in your pocket.

Your machine stays yours. Jobs pause instantly when you use the PC and resume when it's idle. Thermal limits auto-pause under heat. Buyer workloads run in an isolated container (or macOS sandbox) with no access to your files, and a 24ร—7 monitor blocks mining/abuse.

Billing & money

How exactly am I billed?

Per second, only while your instance is running. Stopping ends billing immediately. Storage for a stopped workspace bills separately at โ‚น6/GB-month (first snapshot period is included). Every payment gets a GST invoice.

What if a node fails while I'm being billed?

Billing halts the moment a node is unreachable. Any seconds you paid for but didn't get are refunded automatically when the workload relocates. You never pay for dead time.

Refunds?

Un-served time is refunded automatically. For anything else, write to support@gridshare.in โ€” see the refund policy.

Do my trained model files survive a migration?

Your code, data and outputs in /workspace survive (auto-saved every ~30s). Very large model weights (multi-GB checkpoints and downloaded model zoos) are excluded from auto-save to keep syncs fast โ€” they re-download on the new machine. Keep small fine-tuned adapters in /workspace and export anything critical.

Provider: when do I get paid, and what's TDS?

Payouts go to your UPI on your chosen schedule once your balance crosses the minimum (โ‚น200 daily / โ‚น300 weekly / โ‚น500 monthly plan). Add your PAN in the dashboard โ€” payouts without a PAN attract higher TDS as required by law.

Is my data private on a stranger's GPU?

Workloads run isolated (container/sandbox) with no access to the host's files โ€” and the host has no access to yours inside the container. Workspace auto-saves are stored encrypted at rest in our object storage (Singapore region โ€” disclosed in the privacy policy). For confidential-compute needs, talk to us about enterprise options.

Still stuck?

๐Ÿ›Ÿ In-app help

Every running instance has a Get help button that attaches your instance context to a support ticket automatically โ€” fastest route for instance issues.

๐Ÿ“ง Email

support@gridshare.in โ€” we acknowledge within 24 hours. Abuse reports: abuse@gridshare.in.