CoCalc
cocalc.ai · 2 records in Compute, Storage · JSON
Records 2
- fails: quotaCoCalc, Free (trial project)
Computeidentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
- fails: quotacocalc (Storage)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
CoCalc, Free (trial project)
Compute- Free allowance
- A free trial project with no expiry, described only as 'just enough resources to explore the platform and do basic work', with no internet access and a small idle timeout
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedno internet access from a free project; a licence is required
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | a free trial project with no expiry, described only as 'just enough resources to explore the platform and do basic work', with no internet access and a small idle timeout unit none; metered on none; No RAM, CPU or hour number is published anywhere reachable today. The zero is the network, not the clock. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | write-gated no outbound network means no pip, no git clone and no API call, which ends most work before any quota is reached |
| Identity | email an account; the free trial project needs no card |
| Egress | no outbound internet at all from a free project free allowance: 0 bytes |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object |
| Retention | trial projects do not expire at the moment; a free project can be stopped at any time |
| Interface | rest, ssh, cli a browser IDE with a Linux terminal, Jupyter, RStudio and LaTeX |
| Tooling | the web IDE and its terminal; pip and git clone both fail without network |
| Composes with | a free LaTeX and R workbench with no internet, which rules out installing anything or fetching data |
| Reliability | a free project can be stopped at any time and the docs say it happens at least daily, so long computations need checkpointing |
| Notes | CoCalc moved its pricing to cocalc.ai; cocalc.com/pricing now 404s. The free tier publishes no number at all, which is why this record has dashes where a shape should be. |
| Evidence note | documented the no-internet rule and the idle/session language are quoted from the manual today. RAM and CPU are unverified because neither the pricing page nor the manual publishes a number for the free tier. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | doc.cocalc.com/upgrades.html | quoted: 'Processes running inside a free project are not allowed to directly access the internet.' |
| 2026-10-24 | doc.cocalc.com/trial.html | quoted, with a link and code spans in the original: 'You do not have direct Internet access. You can upload files to CoCalc from your computer, but not from other sites. You cannot git clone repositories from GitHub and you cannot [install packages](https://doc.cocalc.com/howto/install-python-lib.html) even as a regular user via pip.' |
| 2026-10-24 | doc.cocalc.com/trial.html | quoted: 'Idle timeout is small and overall session duration is limited.' |
| 2026-10-24 | doc.cocalc.com/trial.html | quoted: 'Yes, you can - trial projects do not expire at the moment.' |
| 2026-10-24 | cocalc.ai/pricing | quoted: 'Start using CoCalc with just enough resources to explore the platform and do basic work.' - the Free tier carries no number |
| 2026-10-24 | cocalc.ai/pricing | quoted: 'Network access' appears as a benefit of the Basic and Standard tiers, not of Free |
More fields 12
| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "unpublished; the manual only says 'quite limited'"} |
|---|---|
| billing model | free |
| term | none |
| m10h usd | 0.0 |
| m24h usd | 0.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 0.00; the first paid tier is USD 6 a month billed annually |
| free tier kind | free-forever-with-feature-gate |
| unattended | no |
| unattended mechanism | none: no network and a project that can be stopped at least daily |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": false,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "none","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": "0"} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": true,"note": "'Idle timeout is small and overall session duration is limited' - no number given"} |
| units | RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed. |
cocalc (Storage)
Storage- Free allowance
- Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make CoCalc interesting free hosted…
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make CoCalc interesting free hosted… unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
| Reliability | Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make CoCalc interesting (free hosted… |
Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | cocalc.ai/pricing | Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make CoCalc interesting free hosted pr |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Pricing page has been reduced to a membership/licensing blurb with no comparable tier table and no published storage figure — the numbers that used to make CoCalc interesting (free hosted…","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field