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- Free allowance
- A free DataLab tier with any DataCamp account: up to three workbooks and 15 uses of the AI Assistant; no compute allowance, RAM or session length is published
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota3 workbooks and 15 AI Assistant uses on the free tier
- Evidence
- documented3 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 DataLab tier with any DataCamp account: up to three workbooks and 15 uses of the AI Assistant; no compute allowance, RAM or session length is published unit none; metered on none; The free tier is counted in workbooks, not hours. That is the only number the page gives. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 3 workbooks and 15 AI Assistant uses on the free tier source
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| Binding | volume-quota three workbooks is the whole free allowance; there is no published hour budget to plan against |
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| Identity | email a DataCamp account, which can be created for free; no card stated |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest a browser workbook with Python and SQL cells |
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| Tooling | the web workbook; DataCamp API is not documented for the workbook runtime |
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| Composes with | a teaching workbench with three notebooks; nothing here to run a job |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A search of DataCamp's docs for DataLab hardware limits would be the next step. |
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| Evidence note | documented the workbook cap is quoted. RAM, session length and idle timeout are absent from both pages read, so this record cannot answer questions. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-24 | www.datacamp.com/workspace | quoted: 'There is a free tier of DataLab; all you need is a DataCamp account. Free DataLab users can create up to three workbooks (data projects in DataLab), and make use of the AI Assistant 15 times.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.datacamp.com/workspace | quoted: 'To create unlimited workbooks, use the AI assistant without limitations, access powerful hardware, prolonged version history and more, you need to upgrade to DataLab Premium.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.datacamp.com/pricing | the pricing page covers courses only; it publishes no DataLab compute allowance |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "'powerful hardware' is a Premium feature, unnamed"} |
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| billing model | free |
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| term | none |
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| price arithmetic | USD 0.00 for the free tier; Premium is USD 7 a month billed annually |
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| free tier kind | free-forever |
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| unattended | no |
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| unattended mechanism | unverified: none described |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": false,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "unstated","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "not published"} |
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| 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. |
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Unknown values 2
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed