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Vast.ai is a marketplace for renting GPU machines. Each instance and volume bills for GPU time, storage, and bandwidth. CostGraph reads Vast.ai as FOCUS 1.2 records at a grain of one record per instance or volume per charge type per day.

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Choose how the data reaches us

CostGraph pulls it

You supply read-only credentials and we call Vast.ai once a day. Nothing to run.

You push it

You send us FOCUS records over the API. Credentials never leave your infrastructure.

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Before you begin

  • In the Vast.ai console, open Keys and create an API key on the account that rents the instances.
  • The connect form links to the page where you create this key.

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Let CostGraph pull

  1. Open Settings > Integrations and pick Vast.ai.
  2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these charges belong to.
  3. Enter the values you copied. The form lists what Vast.ai needs and marks the optional ones.
  4. Select Connect.
CostGraph verifies the credentials with a short fetch before saving, so a wrong value or a missing permission fails while you are still on the form.
Credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to read billing data. Revoke them in Vast.ai at any time and the connection stops; nothing else is affected.

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Push it yourself

Send the charges to CostGraph as FOCUS records instead. Push FOCUS data covers the connection id, the focus:write key, and the request shape.

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Run the exporter

Rather than build that request yourself, run our exporter. It reads Vast.ai on a schedule and pushes the records for you, wherever you want to run it: a container, a Kubernetes CronJob, or a binary on a machine you already have.
Your Vast.ai credential stays where you put it, and only the finished FOCUS records reach CostGraph. Run the exporter covers the three ways to run it and the variables it reads.

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What CostGraph does with it

Records land as raw billing rows, are normalised into line items, and roll up into daily cost. From there Vast.ai spend appears in Cost Overview and in anomaly detection alongside every other provider. GPU, storage, and bandwidth sit on separate lines, so storage you are still paying for after the work has finished stands out.