prepay instance

Deposit credits into a reserved instance to receive usage discounts. The discount rate is calculated based on how many months of usage the prepaid amount covers. Maximum discount is typically 40%.

CLI Usage: vastai prepay instance <id> <amount>

PUT /api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}

prepay instance

cURL

curl --request PUT \
  --url https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "amount": 500
}'

import requests

url = "https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}"

payload = { "amount": 500 }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.put(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({amount: 500})
};

fetch('https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'amount' => 500
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"amount\": 500\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.put("https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"amount\": 500\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://console.vast.ai/api/v0/instances/prepay/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"amount\": 500\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "success": true,
  "timescale": 3.5,
  "discount_rate": 0.3
}

{
  "success": false,
  "msg": "No such instance"
}

{
  "success": false,
  "msg": "Insufficient credit"
}

{
  "detail": "API requests too frequent endpoint threshold=2.0"
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

API key must be provided in the Authorization header

Path Parameters

id · integer · required

ID of the instance to prepay for

Body

application/json

amount · number<float> · required

Amount of credits to prepay

Example:

500

Response

200

application/json

Successfully applied prepayment

success · boolean

Example:

true

timescale · number<float>

Number of months the prepayment will cover

Example:

3.5

discount_rate · number<float>

Applied discount rate (0.0-0.4)

Example:

0.3