GPU Minutes & Credits

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What you need to know

• GPU minutes are the base unit to calculate everything for you and us!
• GPU minutes roll-over every single cycle. That’s right, all leftover minutes from the previous cycle are added to your total for the next cycle.
• GPU minutes are currently pinned to the NVIDIA 3090.
• You can add GPU minutes to your account at any time to finish off a render. However, upgrading your subscription plan is recommended because it’s cheaper for both you and us.

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Understanding GPU Minutes

A GPU minute is simply a minute per GPU spent rendering. That means, for every minute that 10 x NVIDIA 3090s are rendering, we’ll count it as 10 minutes. We do not count time spent booting, validating, and preparing the file, the time credited for is equal to time spent rendering.

Renderjuice is designed to be simple and easy to understand. We do a lot of optimization in-house to ensure that things go smoothly and convert it to a digestible format (the GPU minute) to offer the best performance and cost for you.

Instead of offering a more “elusive” credit system that can come with all sorts of cost surprises when it comes time to render, our system is intended to be easy enough to do mental math with and easily approximate when placing a render.

By using GPU minutes as the base, we built Renderjuice’s incentives to match with those of our customers. To be concrete, this aligns Renderjuice’s internal motivations to make every minute spent rendering be the most performant, because by making every GPU minute more performant, everyone benefits; we’re able to trim down internal costs and in turn, help you render faster and thereby save money and time.

If you’re curious about the thinking behind this, read our letter on pricing.

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GPU Minute Pinning

We “pin” every minute spent to what we believe is the industry standard of a good GPU minute. At the moment that is the NVIDIA 3090. What’s great about this is that as newer and faster GPUs come into the market you will be able to benefit from this forward progress in the industry. For example, the NVIDIA 4090 is approximately 2X as fast as the 3090. When the 4090 becomes the industry standard, all users will be able to benefit from their GPU minute essentially becoming worth twice as much because we’ll then gradually move that pin from a 3090 to a 4090, so that every minute is then equal to the performance of a 4090.

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Your Credits Page

The credits page is where you can manage your GPU minutes.

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What happens if I run out of GPU minutes while rendering?

When your GPU minutes are used up, your render will be temporarily suspended, but all outputs rendered until that point will be preserved. Not to worry, you can either…

1. Upgrade your subscription plan.
2. Purchase additional GPU minutes.

Once you have enough GPU minutes to continue, you can resume your render from where it left off.