How Boogie works
Boogie is a marketplace for GPU hours. Hosts publish machines, you rent them by the hour, and the price you see is the price you pay. This page covers the whole path, from picking a card to getting a shell on it.
Overview
Renting GPU capacity usually means a sales call, a quota request, or a queue. Boogie removes all three. Every machine in the catalog is live capacity across a dozen datacenters, listed with the price it costs at this moment and the time it takes to boot.
Live catalog
Machines and prices are read from the network, not from a price list someone updates once a quarter.
By the hour
You pay for the hours you asked for. No minimum term, no reserved capacity, no contract.
Settled onchain
Every order is a transaction you can read. The amount agreed at checkout is the amount recorded.
Renting a GPU
- Pick a machineThe catalog lists GPU model, VRAM, vCPU, RAM, disk, region and how long the machine takes to boot. Every listing is datacenter capacity, not a spare card in somebody's flat.
- Choose how longRentals are measured in hours. One hour is the smallest unit, and you can run for as long as the host keeps the machine online.
- PayConnect a wallet and settle the order. See Paying for a rental for what is accepted.
- Get accessThe container starts on the host, usually within a couple of minutes, and the connection details appear in your dashboard.
Machines run a container image, PyTorch with CUDA by default. If you need something else, set the image before you rent.
How pricing works
Every listing shows one number: dollars per hour, for the whole machine as configured. A host with
four cards in one box publishes each slice separately, so a 2x RTX 5090 listing is
priced as a pair, not per card.
| What | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Provider rate | set by the datacenter | What the machine costs upstream. |
| Boogie fee | 25% | Added on top of the host rate. Already included in the price you see. |
| Minimum order | $5 | A one-hour rental of a cheap card costs less to run than to settle. |
| Rounding | up to the cent | So a quote never settles below what the machine costs us. |
Prices move. A card that costs $0.45 an hour this morning may cost $0.51 tonight, because supply and demand on the network move too. The figure attached to your order is fixed when you pay.
Paying for a rental
Orders settle on Robinhood Chain in USDG, and are booked in dollars. What you hand over does not have to be dollars.
Paying with tokenized stocks
If you hold tokenized equity on Robinhood Chain, you can spend it directly. NVDA, SPY, QQQ and TSLA are accepted. The stock is sold for USDG in the same transaction that books your order, so nobody holds an equity position between the quote and the container.
- You approve a ceiling, not a fixed amount. The swap spends what it needs and the remainder returns in the same transaction.
- The band is 3% above the quoted amount. If the market moves against you between signing and inclusion, it comes out of that band rather than out of the rental.
- Quotes are single-use and hold for five minutes. After that, reprice.
Why a ceiling. A stock price and a dollar price move at different speeds. Fixing the dollar amount and letting the stock amount float is what keeps your rental costing exactly what the page said it would.
Paying with USDG
USDG is the settlement currency, so paying in it skips the swap entirely and settles for the exact amount shown.
Access and data
When the machine boots you get SSH, and Jupyter if the image ships it. Add your public key in account settings and it is installed on every machine you rent afterwards.
ssh -p <port> root@<host>Credentials never go onchain. An order records which machine it bought and for how long; the connection details live in your dashboard and nowhere else.
Treat rented machines as untrusted. The hardware belongs to the datacenter operating it, not to Boogie. Do not put credentials, private keys or customer data on a machine you have rented from anyone, here or elsewhere.
Hosting a node
If you have GPUs sitting idle, you can list them and earn on every hour they run. You set the price and the schedule, Boogie brings the demand and handles billing.
Host onboarding is currently a waitlist while we finish the agent that runs on host machines. Join it from the Host a Node page and we will get in touch in order.
Limits and refunds
- A machine can go busy. Supply is live, so a card can be rented by someone else between the moment you see it and the moment you pay. Checkout refuses the order and reloads the list rather than taking money for a machine that is gone.
- If an order settles and cannot be filled, it is refunded in USDG. Refunds are in dollars, not in the stock you paid with, because the equity leg was already sold at payment time.
- Hosts can go offline. Unused hours on an interrupted rental are refunded the same way.
- Rentals are not backups. Storage on a rented machine disappears when the rental ends. Move anything you want to keep before then.
Something missing here? Write to hello@boogiecompute.com and we will add it.