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- Free allowance
- No persistent disk at all.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No persistent disk at all. Notebook files live in Drive; the VM disk is per-session. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | N/A — file hosting is outside the published allocation, so there is no serving path. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | until the instance is recycled; not persistent |
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| Interface | unknown wrapper-only |
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| Tooling | google.colab Python package, Drive mount; no storage client because there is nothing to store to. |
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| Composes with | None for storage. |
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| Reliability | Confirmed both counts: file hosting is outside the published allocation AND zero persistence — the VM disk and the container are destroyed with the session. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "No persistent disk at all. Notebook files live in Drive; the VM disk is per-session.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read