IRIdle Rig

Is renting out your idle GPU worth it? Rental income vs power bill vs marketplace fees vs wear, per month, with the break-even hourly rate.

Every preset is an example assumption, not a market quote. Hourly rates, wattages and card values below are rough placeholders to get you started. Rental prices move week to week, so check current marketplace prices and your own power bill, then edit the numbers.

Your card(s) edit any field

Your setup shared by both cards

Hours listed per day

Occupancy: share of listed hours actually rented

Electricity $/kWh

Marketplace fee %

Wear % per 1,000 h

Rest of system watts when rented

Idle watts while listed, unrented

Wear is how much of the card's resale value you assume a rented hour burns, on top of normal aging (fans, thermal paste, resale "used for rentals" haircut). 1.5% per 1,000 h on a $1,600 card is about 2.4¢ per hour. If you'd keep the PC on and listed anyway, set idle watts to 0.

Where the money goes monthly, card A

What if occupancy changes?

Month = 30.4 days. Gross = rate × rented hours. Fees = gross × fee %. Power = (GPU + system watts) × rented hours + idle watts × listed-but-unrented hours, × your $/kWh. Wear = card value × wear % ÷ 1,000 × rented hours. Break-even rate = (power + wear) ÷ (rented hours × (1 − fee %)). Ignores taxes, internet, cooling, hardware failures and payout minimums. Nothing leaves your browser.