Host policies: committed or with notice

What each interruption policy promises renters, what it costs you when something goes wrong, how reclaim-now works, and how it shows on your listing.

Renters' biggest fear on a peer-to-peer marketplace is losing a run halfway. Your interruption policy tells them exactly what to expect, and the refunds follow from it automatically. You choose it per machine under Booking → If you need the PC back.

The two policies

Committed

You promise not to take the PC back while a rental runs.

• Reclaim now is disabled during rentals; you wait for the renter to stop or for your max rental hours.
• If a RUNNING rental still ends on your side (PC off, agent crash, Docker down, machine deleted), it is a breach: every compute charge is refunded to the renter, your earnings and the platform fee for that rental are reversed, a paid finish alert is refunded, the renter's workspace is kept free for 24 hours, and your reliability score drops 5 points per event (up to 30).
• Listing badge: Committed host. Copy renters read: Committed: no interruptions. If this host fails, you pay nothing for the rental.

Best for a dedicated rig, a second PC, or anyone who never needs the machine on short notice. Idle-only still works (no new rentals while you use the PC); a running rental is simply never cut.

With notice (10–120 minutes)

You may reclaim the PC during a rental, but only with the notice period you set.

• Reclaim now requires at least that many minutes. The renter sees a red countdown, gets an email (and SMS if they armed one), a checkpoint is taken immediately if they use FairGPU storage, and at the deadline the container gets SIGTERM and 60 seconds to save.
• With proper notice the renter is refunded their setup window: the time from start until their work began (first command, sustained GPU use or first SSH session), clamped to 10–60 minutes, plus the last 10 minutes. The platform fee on those minutes is reversed too. No minimum charge applies to them.
• Ending a rental without notice (PC off, crash) is a breach and is treated exactly like a breach under Committed: full refund, nothing for you, −5 reliability.
• Listing badge: N-min notice. Copy renters read: Can reclaim with N-min notice. Setup time is refunded if interrupted; no notice = full refund.

Choose the notice length by how urgently you ever need the PC: 15 minutes is what renters expect; 60–120 is kinder to training runs and still lets you reclaim in an evening.

What it costs you, in numbers

Example: a 4090 at $0.40/h, a renter who installed for 20 minutes and trained for 2 hours.

How it shows on your listing

• The badge on every card and on the machine page, with a tooltip explaining the rule.
• N interruptions · 30 d when you interrupted rentals in the last 30 days (notice or breach).
• Renters can filter the marketplace to Committed hosts only.
• Your dashboard shows the interruptions and the total refunded back out of your earnings per machine.

Reclaim now, properly

1. Machine page → Reclaim now → pick the minutes (at least your notice) and a short reason; renters appreciate knowing.
2. Wait for the countdown. If you change your mind, cancel the notice: nothing is charged to anyone.
3. When it fires the container stops, the rental is marked INTERRUPTED, the refund posts, and the renter can resume on your machine later (or elsewhere from a checkpoint).

Shutting the PC down or quitting the app instead of using Reclaim now always counts as a breach, under both policies.

Reliability score

Computed nightly from uptime, host-offline rate and failed starts over 30 days; new machines start at 60. Each breach subtracts 5 (cap 30) for 30 days. Scores ≥ 90 show green and unlock filters renters use. The quickest way to a high score: pick Committed only if you mean it, and otherwise reclaim with notice rather than pulling the plug.