The hourly rate is only the start.
Rental rates and booked hours change. Power, hosting and hardware costs still need paying. A busy machine can bring in revenue without leaving much behind.
The CFO layer for AI & GPU operators
Your GPUs earn by the hour. Know what you keep.
Connect Vast.ai earnings. Bring power, hosting and hardware costs into the same picture. Close the month with profit by site and machine group, and books you can prove.
Vast.ai in early access. Shared mining/GPU sites. Direct QuickBooks integration.
Early accessYour sites. Your machine groups.
The financial picture
What the fleet keeps.
- Earnings
- Site costs
- Depreciation
Profit by site
and machine group
and machine group
A month you can stand behind
Closed. Traceable.
Ready to share.
- Locked monthly close
- Source-labelled lender pack
- Direct QuickBooks integration
The GPU operator's problem
You know which GPUs are busy.
Do you know which ones pay?
Utilisation tells you what the machines are doing. Your books need to show what the business is keeping.
Earned is not the same as received.
A payout marked sent by the platform may still be on its way. See what the machines earned, what the platform kept in fees, and which payouts have actually arrived.
The hardware is costing you, too.
Cash in the account can hide the cost of the GPUs that earned it. Keep depreciation in the monthly picture, alongside power, cooling, hosting and network costs.
How Flash works
From compute earnings to a closed month.
Your platform runs the rentals. Flash connects the money to the operation behind it.
01 Earnings
Bring the earnings together
Connect Vast.ai in early access. See earnings and platform fees by machine, then match payouts to receipts or confirm when the money arrived.
02 Economics
Count shared costs once
Keep ASIC miners and GPU servers at the same site. Record a shared bill once, then split it between mining and GPU activity. Bring mapped QuickBooks costs into the close for review.
03 Proof
Review, close and share
Review the month, lock it, and prepare the journal entries for QuickBooks. Share the source-labelled lender pack with the people who need to check it.
The full cost of compute
What you earned. What you kept.
See what remains after the costs you record and hardware depreciation. Keep the result tied to a site and a machine group, so a strong month in one part of the fleet does not hide a weak month elsewhere.
Payouts are checked separately from earnings, so the same income is not counted twice. Missing records stay visible for review.
+Compute earnings after platform feesIncome earned on the platform, before site costs
−Power, cooling & hostingSite costs, including network and other expenses
−Hardware depreciationThe equipment cost carried into this month
=Profit you can explainBy site and machine group
What the month includes
A clear result.
The records to back it up.
Profit by site and machine group
Keep earnings and the costs you record together. See which parts of the operation are contributing to the result.
Servers and the cards inside them
Keep GPU servers and replacement cards on the hardware register, with their costs and depreciation. Cards stay components, so they do not become extra billed machines.
A monthly close that stays closed
Review the records and lock the month. Later corrections are recorded, so the version you shared stays intact.
A pack someone else can check
Share a lender pack with every figure labelled by source and the files fingerprinted. Give your accountant read-only access.
Locked month Lender pack QuickBooks-ready entries
Your own customers, too
Get paid for the compute you sell directly.
Accept customer payments alongside platform earnings. Keep BTC, Lightning, wire, ACH and card payments linked to your operation, with a direct QuickBooks integration.
Explore Flash paymentsCustomer payments
- BTC
- Lightning
- Wire
- ACH
- Card
Your compute operationQuickBooks
Mining and GPUs. One price list.
A machine is an ASIC miner or a GPU server, however many GPUs it holds. A site with both counts them together.
GPU accounting questions
Who is Flash for in the GPU market?
GPU hosts and AI compute operators who earn revenue from their own machines. Flash brings earnings, site costs and hardware depreciation into a monthly close, with profit by site and machine group and a direct QuickBooks integration.
Does Flash connect to Vast.ai?
Yes, in early access. Connect your host account with a read-only key to bring in machine inventory, earnings, platform fees and payouts. Earnings and cash received stay separate: a payout marked sent is matched to a receipt or waits for you to confirm arrival.
Does Flash manage my GPU workloads or set rental prices?
Keep using your compute platform and fleet tools to run workloads, monitor machines and set prices. Flash adds the financial view: recorded income, costs, depreciation, the monthly close and books someone else can check.
How does GPU depreciation fit into the books?
Record the GPU equipment cost, in-service date and useful life in the fleet register. Flash includes scheduled book depreciation in the monthly close and prepares journal entries for QuickBooks. Choose the useful life and accounting treatment with your accountant.
Can I take payments from my own compute customers?
Yes. Businesses can accept BTC, Lightning, wire, ACH and card payments through Flash, linked to their operation with a direct QuickBooks integration. These are payment methods, separate from the Vast.ai earnings connection.
How are GPU operations priced?
GPU operations use the same price list as mining. A GPU server counts as one machine, however many GPUs it holds. Count ASIC miners and GPU servers together at a mixed site. The first site is $30/month below 100 machines or $100 at 100 or more; each extra site is $50 or $200 at the same threshold.
Can I keep Bitcoin mining and GPU operations in the same business?
Yes. One physical site can hold ASIC miners and GPU servers. Record shared bills once and allocate them between the two activities, while keeping company overhead separate. See the result by site and machine group in the same monthly close and lender pack. The site is counted once for billing.
Hosting on Vast.ai?
How the Vast.ai connection worksGuides for GPU hosts
How Vast.ai host payouts work GPU rental income and taxesRunning Bitcoin mining sites as well?
See Flash for miners