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Lumino AI
OpenAI-compatible APIs with cached-token pricing
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OpenAI-compatible APIs with cached-token pricing
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Rent cloud GPUs and call hosted AI models from one Lumino account. Use local currency pricing, per-second GPU billing, and chat, video, and speech APIs.
How does the per-second GPU billing work when I'm running long training jobs - do idle minutes still get charged, or does it only count active compute time?
@demet4757 Demet, It’s based on how long the GPU is running, not GPU utilization. So yes, idle minutes are charged too if the pod is still active. For long training jobs, I’d recommend terminating it as soon as the run finishes
How does the per-second GPU billing actually work when spinning up something like an A100, and are there minimum charges or cool-down periods before I can shut it down?
@berra132119 Hey Berra, good question. We bill the A100 by actual runtime, not by rounding it up to an hour. There’s a 60-second minimum when the pod starts, then it’s metered per second.
You can shut it down whenever you’re done, there’s no cool-down period. Compute billing stops once termination is confirmed. If you choose “stop” instead of “terminate,” the GPU charge stops but persistent storage may keep billing until you delete the pod.
So if you use an A100 for around 5 minutes, you pay for around 5 minutes, not the full hour.
Renting a few H100s through Lumino was refreshingly painless — the per-second billing meant I didn't feel guilty spinning one up just to test a script, and paying in euros saved me the usual conversion math.
The per-second GPU billing paired with local currency pricing is a really thoughtful move, especially for teams outside the US who usually get burned by FX fees. Clean execution on something most competitors ignore.
@grselekicetwzh Thanks Gürsel, really appreciate that. FX fees and unpredictable conversion rates are a genuine pain here, so showing and charging in local currency was important to us from the start.