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title: "PowerGPU Documentation — Deploy, Manage & Bill Cloud GPUs"
description: "PowerGPU documentation: quickstart, instance lifecycle, templates, volumes, networking, billing, API keys and limits — everything needed to run GPUs at fixed prices."
url: https://powergpu.ai/docs
last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00
prices_as_of: 2026-09-14
site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai)
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Documentation

# PowerGPU documentation: everything the platform does, written down

Short pages, real commands, no marketing. If something here does not match what the console does, that is a bug — [tell us](https://cloud.powergpu.ai/app/support) and we fix both.

- [**Quickstart** Account to running GPU in five minutes — deploy, connect, stop, destroy.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/quickstart)
- [**Billing & credits** Per-second billing mechanics, crypto top-ups, runway and auto-stop.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/billing)
- [**Instance lifecycle** States, actions, what bills when, interruptions and auto-requeue.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/instances)
- [**Templates & images** One-click stacks, environment variables, ports, private registries.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/templates)
- [**Volumes & storage** Instance disks vs volumes, mounts, snapshots, read-only sharing.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/volumes)
- [**Networking & ports** Public endpoints, port mapping, TLS, bandwidth billing.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/networking)
- [**API keys** Create and scope pg_live_ keys for the REST API, CLI and SDK.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/api-keys)
- [**Quotas & limits** Per-account defaults, instance caps and how to raise them.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/limits)
- [**FAQ** The questions support answers every day, written down.](https://powergpu.ai/docs/faq)

## Building against the platform?

- [**REST API** Search offers, launch and manage instances, read balances — try the public endpoints with one curl.](https://powergpu.ai/api)
- [**CLI** powergpu launch / stop / logs from any shell — everything the console does, scriptable.](https://powergpu.ai/cli)
- [**Python SDK** A typed client for pipelines and notebooks — pip install powergpu.](https://powergpu.ai/sdk)

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*About PowerGPU:* PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 80 NVIDIA GPU models — from the RTX A2000 at $0.024/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.428/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.powergpu.ai) or the REST API.

Source: https://powergpu.ai/docs · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt