The hourly rate is only the start.
Rental rates and booked hours change. Power, hosting and hardware costs still need paying. A busy machine can bring in revenue without leaving much behind.
Planning your rental economics? Try the free GPU rental profit calculator
Books and payments for AI & GPU operators
Your GPUs earn by the hour. Know what you keep.
Manage Vast.ai earnings, fees and payouts by machine. Get help taking payments from your own compute customers. Bring costs into the books and sync to QuickBooks in one click.
Vast.ai early access is open to any host. Connect today.
Early access · Open to any hostYour sites. Your machine groups.
The financial picture
What the fleet keeps.
- Earnings & fees
- Payouts & payments
- Site costs
- Depreciation
Profit by site
and machine group
and machine group
A month you can stand behind
Closed. Traceable.
Ready to share.
- Locked monthly close
- Source-labelled lender pack
- One-click QuickBooks sync
The GPU operator's problem
You know which GPUs are busy.
Do you know which ones pay?
Utilisation tells you what the machines are doing. Your books need to show what the business is keeping.
Earned is not the same as received.
A payout marked sent by the platform may still be on its way. See what the machines earned, what the platform kept in fees, and which payouts have actually arrived.
The hardware is costing you, too.
Cash in the account can hide the cost of the GPUs that earned it. Keep depreciation in the monthly picture, alongside power, cooling, hosting and network costs.
How Flash works
Connect Vast.ai. Review the money. Sync your books.
Start with your Vast.ai host account. Keep platform earnings and customer payments in the same financial picture.
01 Connect
Connect your Vast.ai host account
Any Vast.ai host can connect today in early access. Add your read-only key to bring in machine inventory, earnings, platform fees and payouts. Review earnings and fees by machine, and confirm each payout when the money arrives.
02 Review
Count shared costs once
Keep ASIC miners and GPU servers at the same site. Record a shared bill once, then split it between mining and GPU activity. Bring mapped QuickBooks costs into the close for review.
03 Sync
Sync to QuickBooks in one click
Review the month and lock it, then sync the reviewed entries to QuickBooks in one click. Share the source-labelled lender pack with the people who need to check it.
The full cost of compute
What you earned. What you kept.
See what remains after the costs you record and hardware depreciation. Keep the result tied to a site and a machine group, so a strong month in one part of the fleet does not hide a weak month elsewhere.
Payouts are checked separately from earnings, so the same income is not counted twice. Missing records stay visible for review.
+Compute earnings after platform feesIncome earned on the platform, before site costs
−Power, cooling & hostingSite costs, including network and other expenses
−Hardware depreciationThe equipment cost carried into this month
=Profit you can explainBy site and machine group
What the month includes
A clear result.
The records to back it up.
Profit by site and machine group
Keep earnings and the costs you record together. See which parts of the operation are contributing to the result.
Servers and the cards inside them
Keep GPU servers and replacement cards on the hardware register, with their costs and depreciation. Cards stay components, so they do not become extra billed machines.
A monthly close that stays closed
Review the records and lock the month. Later corrections are recorded, so the version you shared stays intact.
A pack someone else can check
Share a lender pack with every figure labelled by source and the files fingerprinted. Give your accountant read-only access.
Locked month Lender pack One-click QuickBooks sync
Your own customers, too
Get paid for the compute you sell directly.
Selling compute directly as well as on Vast.ai? Flash can help you set up invoices and payment links, track what arrived and see what is still due. Keep customer payments alongside your platform earnings in the books.
BTC, Lightning, USDT and wire; card and ACH for eligible US businesses, subject to partner underwriting. Available methods depend on your account. Wire receipts are recorded when funds arrive.
Customer payments
- BTC
- Lightning
- USDT
- Wire
- ACH · US
- Card · US
Your compute operationQuickBooks
Choose enabled methods for your invoice. Keep actual receipts in your books and sync them to QuickBooks.
Mining and GPUs. One price list.
A machine is an ASIC miner or a GPU server, however many GPUs it holds. A site with both counts them together.
GPU books and payments questions
Who is Flash for in the GPU market?
GPU hosts and AI compute operators who earn revenue from their own machines. Flash brings earnings, site costs and hardware depreciation into a monthly close, with profit by site and machine group and one-click QuickBooks sync. Flash also helps with payments for compute you sell directly.
Does Flash connect to Vast.ai?
Yes. The Vast.ai connection is in early access, and any host can connect today. Get started, then connect your host account with a read-only key to bring in machine inventory, earnings, platform fees and payouts. Review earnings and fees by machine. Confirm each payout when the money lands; if you import or enter a receipt, review the suggested match by reference and amount.
How do I sync my GPU books to QuickBooks?
Connect QuickBooks, review and lock the month, then sync the reviewed entries in one click. Closing the month is free; choose a plan for QuickBooks export, accounting files or a lender pack.
Does Flash manage my GPU workloads or set rental prices?
Keep using your compute platform and fleet tools to run workloads, monitor machines and set prices. Flash adds the financial view: recorded income, costs, depreciation, the monthly close and books someone else can check.
How does GPU depreciation fit into the books?
Record the GPU equipment cost, in-service date and useful life in the fleet register. Flash includes scheduled book depreciation in the monthly close and prepares journal entries for QuickBooks. Choose the useful life and accounting treatment with your accountant.
Can I take payments from my own compute customers?
Yes. Flash can help you set up invoice payment links for compute you sell directly. Methods include BTC, Lightning, USDT and wire, with card and ACH for eligible US businesses subject to partner underwriting. USDT uses Tron or Arbitrum One (USDT0). Choose the methods enabled for your account. Record wire receipts when funds arrive. Customer payments sit alongside Vast.ai earnings in your books and can sync to QuickBooks.
How are GPU operations priced?
GPU operations use the same price list as mining. A GPU server counts as one machine, however many GPUs it holds. Count ASIC miners and GPU servers together at a mixed site. The first site is $30/month below 100 machines or $100 for 100 to 1,000 machines; each extra site is $50 or $200 in the same tiers. Over 1,000 machines per site: custom annual pricing. For large single sites and multi-site fleets. We quote on machine count.
Can I keep Bitcoin mining and GPU operations in the same business?
Yes. One physical site can hold ASIC miners and GPU servers. Record shared bills once and allocate them between the two activities, while keeping company overhead separate. See the result by site and machine group in the same monthly close and lender pack. The site is counted once for billing.
Hosting on Vast.ai?
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