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Free allowance
The programme is offline.
Verdict
deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
Cost
no price stated
Identity
institutionno card, no phone
Binding limit
write-gatedthe door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.
Evidence
documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
Free tierThe programme is offline. The domain now returns, quoted: 'This page doesn't exist - It may have been moved, removed, or never existed. 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND', which is a Vercel deployment error rather than a page. The archived version from 2021 states the scope, quoted: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.' That sentence is also the reason the programme is out of lane: it funded COVID-19 bioscience at academic institutions, not compute.
unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • write-gated (binding) the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19. source
Identityinstitution not published
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withNil. Recording it stops the next reader from chasing a name that appears on lists of fast science funding and has never had a compute lane.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesBrief lists Fast Grants among programmes worth checking, and the check produced a refutation: it was a COVID-19 bioscience fund behind an academic-institution gate, so it was never reachable by a user and never bought a GPU hour.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
Evidence 6
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22www.fastgrants.org/'This page doesn't exist'; '404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND'; 'bom1::9l4zl-1792682528794-85ed34daf84f'; page 404 at origin
2026-10-22web.archive.org/web/20210602095236id_/https://fastgrants.orgthe 2021 capture's own description: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.', and its body lists funded COVID-19 preprints and papers; capture 20210602095236 returned 200
2026-10-22web.archive.org/web/20210602095236/https://fastgrants.org/?pthe archive lookup resolved exactly one capture at 121956 s from the requested 2021-06, which dates the page to June 2021 and shows no later capture in the queried window
2026-10-22fastgrants.org/measured: the live host returns HTTP 404 with body 'DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND' from Vercel, so the site no longer exists
2026-10-22www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/fast-grants/reported: 'Between the first and second rounds of funding, Fast Grants distributed over $40 million in grants before suspending the program'
2026-10-22www.uoguelph.ca/research/alerts/content/fast-funding-covid-1reported by a university research office: 'Due to receipt of a very large number of qualified submissions, Fast Grant applications are currently closed'
More fields 1
facets{"class": "grant","free_tier_kind": "one-time-grant","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}
Unknown values 7
  • 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
  • retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field