Job Types

Understanding Job Types

Jobs can be either BATCH or PERSISTENT:

BATCH Jobs

BATCH jobs run until completion or timeout.

Property	Value
task	BATCH
max_timeout_run_ms	Required — maximum runtime in milliseconds
Billing	Charged for actual execution time
Use cases	Rendering, data processing, inference tasks

The job automatically stops when:

• Your container exits
• The timeout is reached

{
  "task": "BATCH",
  "max_timeout_run_ms": 3600000,
  "title": "Render Scene"
}

PERSISTENT Jobs

PERSISTENT jobs run indefinitely until you stop them.

Property	Value
task	PERSISTENT
max_timeout_run_ms	Must be null
Billing	Charged hourly until stopped
Use cases	SSH access, dev environments, long-running services

Remember to stop PERSISTENT jobs when finished. They continue billing until explicitly cancelled.

{
  "task": "PERSISTENT",
  "max_timeout_run_ms": null,
  "title": "SSH Development Environment"
}