Pause, resume and what you accept

Pause and resume

ballast pause
ballast resume

You can also press Pause or Resume on the device's page in the dashboard. New jobs stop within one poll, which is at most 25 seconds. A job already running finishes. A paused device takes no new work, so it earns nothing until you resume.

Serverless, dedicated or both

• Serverless only: you take pay-per-token jobs and are never rented out.
• Dedicated only: you are listed for rentals in your VRAM class and leave the serverless pool at once.
• Both: you take serverless jobs until someone rents you. While rented, the device shows Rented, takes only that renter's jobs, and goes back to serverless when the rental ends.

If you switch to Serverless only while a rental is running, it takes effect when the rental ends. The page says so. A setting change never cuts a rental short.