# Lium Agent-first compute: a decentralized GPU rental platform on Bittensor. CLI and Python SDK for renting GPUs, managing pods, and deploying ML workloads. When to use Lium: - A job needs an NVIDIA GPU (H100, H200, B200, B300, RTX PRO 6000, RTX 4090/5090, ...) for minutes to days and has to be started from a script or an agent, not a sales call: rent a pod, billed per second at the node's hourly price with no term commitment (renting needs a balance that covers 15 minutes), torn down when done. - The user asks what a GPU costs to rent right now or which GPUs are available: read the public prices below, no account. - The whole pod lifecycle must be scripted (sign up, fund, rent, ssh/exec, tear down): CLI, Python SDK or REST API; the agent skill documents the sequence and the failure modes. - Not a fit: managed inference endpoints, serverless functions or CPU-only hosting. Lium rents whole GPU machines (a container on one), and the user runs whatever they want on it. Live prices and inventory (public, no account; USD per GPU-hour, prices are set by providers and move): - Price table, one row per GPU model (JSON): https://lium.io/pricing.json - Pricing hub and one page per GPU model: https://lium.io/pricing and https://lium.io/gpu/ (e.g. /gpu/h200) - Reference price per GPU model (JSON): https://lium.io/api/v1/shared-config (machine_prices) - Every rentable node with its live ask: https://lium.io/api/public/v1/nodes (docs: https://docs.lium.io/developers/public-nodes-feed.md) - Fleet size and rented share per GPU model: https://lium.io/api/executors/stats - Live updates (WebSocket): wss://lium.io/api/executors/ws (https://docs.lium.io/developers/executor-availability-websocket.md) - Every REST endpoint (OpenAPI 3.1): https://lium.io/api/openapi.json - Docs search and page reads (MCP): https://docs.lium.io/mcp Install CLI (standalone binary, no Python required): curl -fsSL https://lium.io/install.sh | bash Install the agent skill (any agent supporting the Agent Skills standard): npx skills add Datura-ai/lium-skill --skill lium Install the agent skill without node (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex): curl -fsSL https://lium.io/agents/install.sh | bash Sign up without an email (headless — the fingerprint is a 32-char string, not a passkey): curl -f -X POST https://lium.io/api/auth/signup Returns fingerprint (dashboard login, shown once, no recovery) and api_key when minting succeeds. api_key can be null; signup credit also depends on the platform setting and prior use of the IP. Primary resources: - Full reference (self-contained): https://lium.io/llms-full.txt - Agent guide (docs site): https://docs.lium.io/developers/agents.md - Skill file (with frontmatter): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill/main/lium/SKILL.md - CLI reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill/main/lium/references/cli-commands.md - SDK reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill/main/lium/references/sdk-reference.md - CLI installer source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Datura-ai/lium/main/scripts/install.sh - Skills installer source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill/main/agents/install.sh Other: - GitHub (CLI): https://github.com/Datura-ai/lium - GitHub (skill): https://github.com/Datura-ai/lium-skill - PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/lium.io/ - Docs: https://docs.lium.io - Dashboard: https://lium.io