Free or trial GPU time

Compute offers that mention GPU in their category or text and are usable or trial. Read the free tier line for hours per week or month.

Ranked byverdict, best first, then the evidence · 60 ranked

Key

★ qualifies: usable as stated; the read path was probed
caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
trial: a time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
paid: no free allowance; listed for its price
fails: identity: the identity required is not reachable without it
fails: egress: data cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
fails: quota: the free allowance is too small to matter
dead: the offer or the service no longer exists
self-hosted, last resort: software or a node that the user installs, runs and maintains. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
free tier, no free tier: the record states a free allowance, or states that it has none
identity email: what a signup asks for. A question mark after it: a placeholder, not read from a source
no card, card, card?: a payment card is not asked, is asked, or the record does not say
limit: the limit that runs out first, for example request-rate or volume-quota
evidence: how the record is backed, strongest first: measured, documented, reported, inferred, unverified
fresh until, stale since: the check is inside its window, or past it, on today's date
inherited, checked live: inherited: the record was carried from an earlier source, and its check date is an upper bound. Checked live: the record was checked against the service. The chip filters on it
verdict: a judgement of the whole offer for the need of its topic. The data holds no number as a cut-off. Read the free allowance and the limits of the record, and decide for your own need
duplicate, disagrees: another record holds the same offer, or a sibling record states another value

How to read a record

SectionsFree allowance counted in time 14 Free allowance in credits or another unit 21 One-time trial or credit 22 No free allowance in the record 2 The record does not say 1

Free allowance counted in time 14

The record has a free allowance, and it is counted in hours, minutes or seconds.

★ qualifiesGongji Compute individual
'new-user trial: join the group, fill in the application form and immediately receive CNY 50 of compute credit, equivalent to 24 hours of a 4090' and 'deep...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
★ qualifiesKaggle Notebooks, free Notebooks (CPU, GPU, TPU)
4 CPU cores and 30 GB RAM, or 1 Tesla P100 with 29 GB RAM, per session; 12 hours of execution for CPU and GPU sessions and 9 hours for TPU; 20 GB of...
free tieridentity any-phoneno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
★ qualifiesPaperspace (DigitalOcean) Gradient free tier
Quoted from the machine table: 'GPU+ (M4000) | $0.45/hr | Free, Pro, Growth' and 'C4 | $0.04/hr | Free, Pro, Growth'.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
caveatCyVerse
The free Basic tier is 5 GB of Data Store storage, 200 compute units per year and 1 concurrent job, where the page states "1 Compute Unit equals 1 Core Hour...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
caveatGitLab
50,000 compute minutes per month in the GitLab for Open Source Program (GitLab Ultimate features), charged at a program-specific cost factor of 0.5 for...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
caveatHugging Face Community
'Do you have an awesome Space but need help covering the GPU hardware upgrade costs?
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
caveatPaperspace
C4, C5 and C7 machines are included in a Free Gradient subscription plan; every machine bills per hour, and a powered-off machine still bills its storage...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03disagrees
caveatGoogle Colab, free (no subscription)
Free of charge access to computing resources including GPUs and TPUs; a notebook runs for at most 12 hours; usage limits, idle timeout, maximum VM lifetime...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
caveatHugging Face ZeroGPU
A free account in good standing (verified email, older than 30 days) may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces and use 5 minutes of GPU a day, on a half RTX Pro 6000...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
caveatPaperspace Gradient
USD 0 with 'FREE GPU', a 12-hour auto-shutdown limit and 5 GB of storage; the free machine list names 'Free GPU (M4000)' and 'Free CPU (C4)' as available on...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
caveatAMD Radeon Cloud
AMD runs two sites. On the China site the AMD AI Developer Program is free to join and new members start with 100 points, which is 100 GPU-hours at 1 point...
free tieridentity any-phoneno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatOpen Intelligence Foundation
The application is a single web form with eight fields, none institutional.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatTencent CNB
Translated from the CNB pricing table, read 2026-10-22: cloud-native build CPU free quota 160 core-hours a month; cloud-native development CPU free quota...
free tieridentity any-phoneno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale since 2026-10-25
caveatAtomGit Notebook
" Notebook Space 1000 " - 1,000 core-hours of free compute a month for Notebook and Space, on Ascend 910B NPU cards as well as CPU.
free tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-17

Free allowance in credits or another unit 21

The record has a free allowance that is not counted in time: credits, a grant, storage or a mix of units. The data does not tell a credit from a grant.

caveatDeepnote (Free)
Free forever, including the Basic machine at 5 GB RAM and 2 vCPU marked Unlimited; background execution and scheduled notebooks are Team features at USD 39...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
caveatfal Research Grants
Free compute on fal's inference platform.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
caveatCerebrium
A Free tier priced as 'Free + compute a month' with 500 containers and 5 concurrent GPUs, plus the first 100 GB of storage free at $0.05 a GB a month past it
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
caveatComfy Deploy
A free starting tier priced as credits; GPU time bills per second from $0.6480 an hour for a T4 to $1.2132 an hour for an A10G
free tieridentity any-phoneno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
caveatGoogle TPU Research
Free Cloud TPU quota granted to an approved applicant's own Google Cloud project, 'on a temporary basis'.
free tieridentity cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
caveatLambda Research Grant
'We're committed to supporting groundbreaking research by offering qualifying researchers up to $5,000 in cloud credits to develop and showcase their work...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
caveatDaytonaUSD 194.87/month
USD 200 in free compute included, one time.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
caveatAnyscale
'Get started with $100 credit' on the pricing page, and the signup page heading reads 'Use work email for $100 free credits'.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-23
caveatCloudRift AI Grant
USD 100 to USD 1,000 in GPU compute credits to train models, build tools or create tutorials, on RTX 4090, RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatCompound Reverie Grants
'These are micro-grants to fund people exploring ideas that otherwise would not easily get funded through traditional means ... They range from as little as...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatEmergent Ventures
A rolling grant and fellowship programme running since 2018 with no published range.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatEuropean Innovation Council
Grants below EUR 2.5 million combined with equity investment from EUR 0.5 million to EUR 10 million, from a EUR 634 million Accelerator budget in the 2026...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatFilecoin Foundation Next
'Next Step Microgrants are awarded in the amount of $5,000, paid in FIL tokens.' The intended audience is 'independent developers, small studios...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatMiraclePlus Compute
Live English page, verbatim: 'MiraclePlus Compute is open to universities, research institutes, enterprises, startups, and independent researchers globally.
free tieridentity emailno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatMozilla Foundation Human-Scale
'Applicants to this cohort will be eligible to receive up to $500,000 USD in funding over three years - without giving up equity.' The base award, quoted...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatMozilla Open Source
'Generally anyone who maintains an open source project can apply to MOSS, including individuals, NGOs, and for-profit companies' and 'the MOSS Committee has...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatOpen Technology Fund
'Awards are between $10,000 and $900,000 for up to 24 months.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatStart-Up Chile
Equity-free co-financing for a 4-month programme, published for generation BIG 13 as BUILD CLP 15M (about USD 16K), IGNITE CLP 30M (about USD 33K) and...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatYotta Labs Academic
'$1000 Credits' plus 'Discounted Compute Usage for 6 Months' and 1-on-1 engineering support.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatZylora open source
USD 500 of GPU credits for startups pre-Series A, academic research, or open source projects.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
caveatDatalayer Runtimes
Free plan: 50 wallet credits per month (reset each calendar month), 500 agent runs per month, 3 agents
free tieridentity email?card?evidence unverifiedstale on 2026-11-19

One-time trial or credit 22

The verdict is trial-only: a time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance.

trialAceCloud
No standing free tier.
free tieridentity any-phonecardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
trialcentron
A starting credit of EUR 200 for new accounts within the first 60 days, a promotional offer for new accounts available exclusively to businesses; after it...
free tieridentity emailcard?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
trialEcoHash
A USD 1.00 welcome credit on every new account, and one on-demand GPU model: RTX Pro 6000 (96 GB) at USD 1.89 per GPU-hour, billed per second with no...
free tieridentity emailcard?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
trialHinode
A one-time trial: eligible new accounts get $10 to try after a $1 card check and refund, up to 7 days, on any GPU size on one machine; files are kept for 24...
free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
trialAMD Developer Cloud
25 hours of complimentary cloud credit, stated as approximately USD 50: 'AMD is offering an initial 25 hours of complimentary cloud credit to qualified...
free tieridentity cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
trialGenesis Cloud
Trial credits exist and the amount is not published.
free tieridentity cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
trialNosana
The USD 50 is real as an announcement but not as a standing offer.
free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
trialOVHcloud GPU instances
USD 200 of free credit for a new public-cloud account, one time; there is no free instance tier, and b3-8 at $0.0605 an hour is the cheapest general-purpose row
free tieridentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
trialAkash Network (Compute)
'USD 1 in free credits - enough to run your first deployment and explore the deploy loop', '30 days - your window to use the trial credit'.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialDAMODEL
RTX 4090 rental quoted at CNY 20 of credit to every new registration (新人注册), with 4090, A800 and H800 cards cut permanently in price.
free tieridentity institutionno cardphoneevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialEGI Cloud Compute
"Trial access: Try the service, prototype and validate applications and services.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialLium
Quoted, read 2026-10-22: 'New accounts can get $5 in free credit once they add and confirm an email address or make a first paid deposit, if Lium's abuse...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialNeevCloud
'Sign up today and claim INR 2,000 in FREE CPU Cloud credits, valid for 7 days', and for the GPU side 'When you sign up on NeevCloud, your account is...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialOcean Network /
A self-serve grant with no wallet extension and no card, but with no published amount.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialRender Network
The credit offer is withdrawn.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialSamsung Cloud Platform
KRW 300,000 of credit to a new account that registers a payment method and is approved: '가입만 하시면, 30만 크레딧을 바로 드립니다'.
free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialZoltan's FLOPs GPU
'Zoltan's FLOPs is a mini-grant program for GPU computing projects.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
trialICML 2026 Agent
A conference-wide reproduction challenge that pays in GPU credits rather than cash.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-19
trialCloud Studio
Documented standing grant: a 20 machine-hour resource pack after binding a Tencent Cloud account, plus 2 machine hours claimable once a day and valid for 7...
free tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18
trialDigitalOcean GPU Droplets
USD 5 of credit for a new account, valid for 90 days; it expires with any remainder
free tieridentity cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-17
trialAkash Network GPU
A second live tracker reports H100 capacity on the Akash marketplace confirmed in stock at USD 2.730 per GPU-hour, timestamped 2026-10-21 19:31 UTC, from 60...
free tieridentity emailcard?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
trialModelScope
" Notebook 36 " - 36 GPU hours as a new-user initial grant, while the CPU environment (8 cores, 32 GB) stays free with no stated limit.
free tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06

No free allowance in the record 2

The record has no free allowance. Its offer is paid, a spot price for example.

★ qualifiesMicrosoft Azure Spot
The answer to the ten-minute-checkpoint question, computed from published inputs rather than measured.
no free tieridentity cardphoneevidence inferredstale on 2026-12-03
caveatGoogle Cloud Spot
Google publishes two numbers that answer the survival question directly and neither is an interruption rate.
no free tieridentity cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03

The record does not say 1

The data has no claim about a free allowance for these records.

caveatMicrosoft Azure GPU VMs
identity cardphonelimit request-rateevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-17

The query

SELECT rid, vorder FROM record WHERE topic='compute' AND grp IN ('usable','trial') AND (category LIKE '%GPU%' OR rno IN (SELECT docid FROM text_fts WHERE text_fts MATCH 'offer:gpu')) AND duplicate_of IS NULL AND coalesce(summary,'') NOT LIKE 'no free %' AND coalesce(summary,'') NOT LIKE 'no published free %' AND coalesce(summary,'') NOT LIKE 'no perpetual free %'
ORDER BY self_hosted, vorder ASC NULLS LAST

Run it yourself: /api/v1/need/free-gpu, or the MCP tool need.