Once you signup and install FluidStack’s software, they will detect when your computer is idle and use your bandwidth/CPU to serve content.

The fact that FluidStack uses your CPU instead of GPU helps limit power consumption, and the whole idea of their platform is to only use your computer when it’s idle and to limit how much power you end up using.

Payout ratio:

  • >10MB/s upload speed – $5/month
  • Faster speeds – $10 per 100MB/s
  • 200 MB/s upload speed – $20/month

Keep in mind, this is per IP address, so if you have multiple IPs for some reason you could theoretically double dip.

FluidStack pays out through PayPal and all outstanding balances are processed at the end of the month. FluidStack also plans on releasing some additional ways to earn in the future, including video transcoding and geo-proxies, which will pay more.

Additionally, FluidStack will be releasing a cloud gaming feature which will allow powerful gaming rigs to host cloud gaming services for as much as $100/month, although we will have to wait and see how this actually unfolds.

Edit: 03/01/2020: Fluidstack has announced that they are focusing on cloud computer customers with access to machines with GPU’s running Fluidstack on Linux.

This means that most customers running Windows OS to rent bandwidth will no longer be able to make money from Fluidstack. In contrast, Linux machines now have guaranteed monthly payments based on the following models:

Fluidstack-monthly-payments

Checkout our Fluidstack review for all the latest info!