Pricing
Pay per hour. Sellers keep 70%.
No subscriptions. No minimums. No platform markup on Stripe processing fees — we pass them through at cost. Below is exactly what every dollar looks like at each step.
Indicative hourly rates
Sellers set their own rates; autopilot suggests a starting price based on hardware tier. Below are typical rates you'll see in the marketplace as supply grows. Actual prices vary by tier, region, and availability.
| Hardware tier | Workloads supported | Typical $/hr |
|---|---|---|
| CPU + Ollama | Whisper, embeddings, tiny LLMs | $0.10–$0.20 |
| Entry GPU (8 GB) | Llama-3-8B, SDXL low-res | $0.15–$0.25 |
| Mainstream (12–16 GB) | Llama-3-13B, SDXL standard | $0.20–$0.40 |
| Pro (24 GB — RTX 3090/4090) | Llama-3-13B-fp16, SDXL-XL, fine-tunes | $0.40–$0.70 |
| Datacenter (40+ GB — A100/H100) | Llama-3-70B, large fine-tunes | $1.00–$2.50 |
Pricing is per-hour, locked at booking time. Cancel any rental mid-stream and the unused time refunds to your balance.
Where every dollar goes
On a $1.00 rental:
Locked in at booking. Held for 7 days (chargeback protection), then withdrawable to your bank on demand.
Covers payment processing, routing infrastructure, customer support, fraud handling, and platform development.
No subscription. No surge pricing. No platform markup on Stripe processing fees — those are passed through at cost.
Stripe processing fees (pass-through)
Wattlend doesn't mark up Stripe's fees — buyers and sellers pay exactly what Stripe charges. Fully disclosed upfront before you confirm any transaction.
Stripe's standard US card rate. Example: adding $25 to your balance costs $26.03 — $25 lands in your wallet, $1.03 covers Stripe processing.
$25 minimum top-up so the per-transaction fee stays under 5%.
Standard US ACH transfer. Example: withdrawing $50 wires $49.75 to your bank — the $0.25 covers Stripe's ACH fee.
$25 minimum withdrawal so the per-transaction fee stays under 1%.
Common questions
Is there a subscription?
No. Pure pay-as-you-go. Top up when you want to use the platform; balance never expires.
Can I get a refund if a seller's machine fails mid-rental?
Yes — automatically. If the seller's agent goes silent for 2+ minutes during your rental, Wattlend cancels the rental, refunds the unused portion pro-rata to your balance, and routes your next request to a healthy machine.
Why do seller earnings sit for 7 days before I can withdraw?
Chargeback protection — Visa/Mastercard let buyers dispute charges for up to 120 days, but the vast majority happen in the first 7. Holding earnings briefly prevents a malicious buyer from booking, chargingback, and leaving you on the hook for refunded money you already withdrew. Industry-standard practice on every marketplace (Uber, Airbnb, Etsy all do the same).
What happens to my data when I rent?
Your prompts/inputs go directly to the seller's machine and stay there only as long as needed to compute the response. Wattlend doesn't log or store buyer inputs — we only see the metadata (which buyer, which rental, how long, success/fail). Add end-to-end encryption to your own SDK if you need stronger guarantees.
Need volume pricing or SLAs?
Yes — join the enterprise waitlist at /scale. We're building reserved capacity, custom routing, and SLA contracts for buyers spending $10K+/mo.