Akash leases, GPU capacity, and a chain balance are not earned income
Allocated GPU count, the directory online flag, and tokens in an account answer three different questions. Without duration and a price, a count does not become income.
| Figure | What it actually answers | Do not treat it as |
|---|---|---|
| Allocated GPUs | How many GPUs the directory currently marks allocated | A lease count or AKT already booked |
| Online flag | Whether the directory marked the provider online at the check | Rent for that interval |
| Active lease | A workload still open in the official lease records | GPU total minus idle count |
| On-chain AKT or USDC | Tokens the wallet holds now | Net amount earned from leases this month |
Allocated GPUs are not money already earned. The Akash monitor reads capacity from the provider directory: how many GPUs are listed, and how many of those are marked allocated. The official site says a tenant opens a lease after accepting a bid, and a provider earns from deployments. Income needs an open lease, a price, and a duration. None of those three is on the directory card. AKT or USDC in an account is a further column: a holding, which can include transfers in, transfers out, and amounts unrelated to this lease.
What each field is
GPU total and allocated count come from the directory’s capacity snapshot. The online flag only describes the directory status at check time. Getting started lists lease management as its own operations topic and points to a separate earnings estimate. An estimate is a planning tool, not an amount this provider has already settled. A chain balance comes from a wallet, not from the directory. Adding the three together does not answer “what did I earn today.”
Where to look when you want income
- On the Akash monitor, confirm you opened the provider’s own directory row, not a wallet. How to read it is in the directory record.
- In the official console’s lease or deployment record, see whether that workload is still open, which resources it uses, what the price is, and the start and end of the window.
- Only an official settlement record that states an amount paid is booked income. The directory does not carry that amount.
- When you open a wallet for AKT and USDC, read it as a holding. See balances and income. Do not subtract a remembered number from the balance and call the difference this month’s rent.
What to do next
- The card shows allocated GPUs but the console has no matching lease: trust the lease record. Do not invent an order from the count.
- The console has a lease, and allocated is 0 or blank: capacity is unallocated or unknown. Whether the lease is still open follows the console. Do not fill either side with zero to force them to match.
- Online is no: that is a directory mark, not an automatically computed outage loss. See provider shows offline.
Illustrative case (not measured income)
The directory says GPU total 8 and allocated 3. The console has one lease still open. The price sits on that lease, not on the directory. Do not multiply 3 by an hourly rate and call the product “amount earned.” AKT still in the wallet may be a much older holding. Do not book it as rent for those 3 GPUs. If price or duration is missing, income stays unknown.
Limits
Hourly comparisons on the marketing site are price examples a tenant sees. They are not your provider’s net income for the month, and they do not subtract power, depreciation, or idle time. This monitor does not promise rent, and it does not treat an earnings-calculator result as funds received.
Common questions
If 4 GPUs are allocated, are there 4 rent payments?
Do not count it that way. Allocated is only a count in the directory. One lease can use several GPUs, and several leases can sit in the same snapshot. Count and amount follow the official lease records.
Can AKT in the wallet count as today’s lease income?
No. A balance is the holding right now and may include transfers unrelated to today’s lease. Today’s income comes only from a settlement record that states an amount and a time.
Can the official earnings calculator replace a settlement record?
No. Getting started places it as an estimate before you run a provider. An estimate is not an amount paid, and this monitor does not show that result.