Help

Everything you need to go from sign-up to a running GPU, and what to expect along the way.

Quickstart

1. Create an account with Google or your email address. There is no ID upload: the payment you make next is how we know who you are.
2. Add credits in Credits: your account is held in the currency of your country (you can change it before the first payment). Pay with a local method — Fonepay/bank/eSewa/Khalti in Nepal, UPI or IMPS in India, PayPal/Wise/card link elsewhere — and enter the transaction reference. Credits are added after review.
3. Add an SSH key in Keys. On your computer run ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and paste the contents of ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.
4. Pick software in Software (or leave it on "Any"), then a host in Live prices. Details shows the whole machine before you decide.
5. Rent, wait for Running (about a minute on a warm host, 3–5 minutes on a cold one), then press Connect for the SSH command, JupyterLab and the app links.

While it runs

• Billing is per second at the locked price. Stop ends GPU billing immediately; the disk stays and costs only storage. Start needs an hour of credit.
• Warnings arrive at 30 and 10 minutes of runtime left; below five minutes the instance is stopped for you. The disk is kept for 7 days after a stop-for-no-credit.
• Your files live in /workspace. Move data with scp, rsync, git or the Jupyter uploader. Turn on Backups for anything you can't lose.
• Details on the instance card shows live GPU and CPU load, memory, disk and uptime; Logs shows the container output; Reboot restarts it without losing files.

Using the API

Create a key in Keys (scopes: read, instances, billing) and send it as Authorization: Bearer tc_live_…. The full reference is at /api/docs.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" "https://powerpod.si/api/v1/offers?gpu=RTX%204090&sort=price"
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"offer_id": 123456, "template_id": 1, "disk_gb": 40, "ssh_key_ids": [7]}' https://powerpod.si/api/v1/instances
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" https://powerpod.si/api/v1/instances/42        # ssh_command, jupyter_url, apps
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" https://powerpod.si/api/v1/instances/42/stop

Money, plainly

• Prices are shown in your currency and include our margin. Nepali rupee prices use the Nepal Rastra Bank USD selling rate of the day; other currencies use the daily market rate; US dollar prices need no conversion. The price is locked when you rent.
• Storage is charged per GB-month while the instance exists, including while stopped. Network transfer is charged per GB at the rates shown before you confirm.
• A one-hour reserve is held per instance and released when you destroy it. Statements are issued monthly as PDF — Nepali (Bikram Sambat) months for rupee accounts in Nepal, calendar months elsewhere.
• Unused credits are refundable on request unless an acceptable-use breach caused us costs.

When something goes wrong

• Host went offline — billing pauses and you are notified; when it returns, billing resumes. Lost time is credited.
• Could not start / start timed out — the host declined or never came up; nothing was charged for GPU time and the reserve is released. Try another host.
• Can't SSH — check the key you installed is the one on your machine (ssh -i), and use the exact command from Connect; the port is not 22.
• Anything else: compute@talkc.ai.