Cloud Studio
- Free allowance
- 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 days; machine hours are deducted at a factor per machine shape, and when the pack is used up the application keeps running and bills...
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- national-idno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026.
- Evidence
- reported15 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-18checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-11-18
| Free tier | 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 days; machine hours are deducted at a factor per machine shape, and when the pack is used up the application keeps running and bills pay-as-you-go to the account balance unit credits; metered on wall-clock; machine hours are credits deducted per hour of use at a factor per shape: GPU T4 1.2, GPU V100 3.6, GPU A10 3.3, GPU L40 8, GPU A800 14; the 20 machine-hour pack is about 16.7 hours of T4 or 2.5 hours of L40 |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | national-id a Tencent Cloud account must be bound for the first-binding machine-hour grant, and the vendor guide says using compute resources usually needs that account with personal real-name verification; accepted documents are a mainland China resident ID card or a mainland travel permit for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan users, and other international documents are sent to the international site; registration also includes phone verification |
| Egress | not stated |
| Retention | the 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026. |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | as a chain element it is a windfall and not a resource. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The useful signal is the trend it sits in: Tencent's standing grant fell by roughly two orders of magnitude between 2024 and 2026 while users kept finding temporary surplus. |
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Evidence 15
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-14 | linux.do/t/topic/2902157 | the post, translated: 'earlier Cloud Studio had a bug and I got 2,000-plus machine-hours free, I do not know what to do with them' |
| 2026-07-22 | linux.do/t/topic/2635751 | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | quoted, translated from the vendor's machine-hour FAQ: 'first binding grant: after binding a Tencent Cloud account, a 20 machine-hour resource pack is granted' and 'daily login: after logging in each day, 2 machine hours can be claimed from the profile card (valid for 7 days)'. A new account therefore starts with tens of hours and accumulates at 2 a day, which supports the trial-only verdict and the top of the stored 20-to-50-hour range; it does not support the 2,000-hour windfall, which stays a forum report and is not repeated by any vendor page |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | binding a Tencent Cloud account grants a 20 machine-hour resource pack; the same FAQ gives 2 machine hours a day valid 7 days |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | the grant is a resource pack of machine hours, a credit deducted at a per-shape factor |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131894 | a T4 with 16G of video memory deducts 1.2 machine hours per hour; the same table lists V100 3.6, A10 3.3, L40 8 and A800 14 |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | the vendor FAQ is the source of the standing grant |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131801 | personal real-name verification on the Tencent Cloud account accepts a mainland China ID card, or a mainland travel permit for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan users |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131801 | using compute resources usually needs a Tencent Cloud account with real-name verification |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | after the resource pack is used up the application is not stopped and switches to pay-as-you-go billing against the account balance |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773 | the 20 machine-hour first-binding pack is stated by the vendor FAQ |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131775 | 2 machine hours can be claimed free each day and are valid for 7 days |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131894 | an L40 with 48G of video memory deducts 8 machine hours per hour |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131770 | machine hours are consumed while an IDE tab is open and compute is released about 10 minutes after the last IDE tab closes |
| 2026-11-03 | cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131802 | the 20 machine-hour first-binding grant can usually be claimed once |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field