# GPU Rental vs Mining Arbitrage Calculator

> GPU Rental vs Mining Arbitrage Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from compute.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Compares GPU rental costs (Vast.ai) against cryptocurrency mining revenues (WhatToMine) to identify profitable arbitrage opportunities.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://compute.memoryapi.org/x402/compute/arbitrage?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gpu-rental-vs-mining-arbitrage-calculator-485025bf
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XND0-3AIA05O_Tm1DHPjN

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability gpu-rental-vs-mining-arbitrage-calculator-485025bf
```

Example prompt: Can you check if renting a GPU right now is profitable for crypto mining — I want to see the current rental cost versus mining revenue to find any arbitrage opportunity?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single combined view of GPU rental cost versus mining revenue without manually querying Vast.ai and WhatToMine separately. Best for agents or workflows that need to decide in real time whether to spin up rented GPU capacity for crypto mining, or for periodic arbitrage monitoring. Prefer the individual sibling endpoints if you need raw rental or mining data independently for other purposes.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream data unavailable if Vast.ai or WhatToMine APIs are down, returning stale or missing data
- Mining revenue highly volatile — snapshot may be outdated within minutes
- Reference GPU rig assumptions may not match user's intended hardware
- No GPU model filtering — results may reflect only a single reference configuration
- Rate limiting or payment failure may block repeated rapid calls at $0.10 USDC per call

## How this service works

Rent-and-mine arbitrage: GPU rental cost vs best mining revenue.

## Output

Returns a comparison of GPU rental cost in USD/day (sourced from Vast.ai) against mining revenue in USD/day (sourced from WhatToMine on a reference GPU rig), surfacing the arbitrage spread to indicate whether renting GPUs to mine cryptocurrency is currently profitable.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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