Idle GPU Cost Calculator
A GPU left running idle bills exactly as much as one being used: this prices that out against live per-GPU $/hr rates, for the durations a box actually gets forgotten for.
What idle time actually costs
Cheapest live per-GPU rate for each model, times hours idle: the same rate you'd pay for that GPU in active use. Idle time is not discounted; a forgotten box bills at its full rate.
Try your own numbers
Auto-pause can remotely stop a box on this provider: this cost is what you'd avoid by turning it on, not what happens automatically. It's opt-in and off unless you switch it on.
What actually stops this
Aquanode has an auto-pause feature that saves your setup and then releases the box after it's been idle past a threshold you set, but it is opt-in, never automatic. It is off until you turn it on: tick it in the console deploy sheet, set the idle policy through the API or the aq CLI, or switch it on later from the deployment's Idle tab.
It works the same way on every provider Aquanode supports: auto-pause saves your setup then terminates the box, a create-and-terminate call every provider adapter implements, not a provider-specific stop API. There's no per-provider list to check before relying on it.
Resuming a paused box works the same way too: it rents a fresh box, here or on a different provider, and restores the snapshot onto it, so it isn't gated by which provider you paused on either. Restoring after a provider-side failure (spot reclaim, capacity loss) is only ever as good as a snapshot that was already scheduled before it happened. Automated snapshots are opt-in and nothing schedules one at deploy time.
