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- Free allowance
- The free tier is gone and what remains is a sales contract.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedno published price and no self-serve checkout: the entry step is a quote from Graphcore sales or Cirrascale for a four-card minimum.
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | The free tier is gone and what remains is a sales contract. Graphcore's Paperspace guide now opens with 'Running code on IPUs in Paperspace is no longer supported', and the page that advertised IPU cloud access 'with free trials and a range of pricing options' returns 404 today. The surviving lane is Graphcloud, whose systems are 'available on Graphcloud that you can purchase access to' with 'Full pricing details for accessing these systems... available from Cirrascale or from Graphcore sales'. The smallest listed system is a Bow Pod16: four Bow-2000s and a host server. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) no published price and no self-serve checkout: the entry step is a quote from Graphcore sales or Cirrascale for a four-card minimum. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | It chains with nothing for a user: a four-card minimum and a quote step sit outside a single-person budget, and the free IPU-POD4 notebook route that did fit has now been withdrawn on two independent platforms. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | It did not move to Paperspace under a new name: the 'no longer supported' banner and the DigitalOcean discontinuation note say it ended. It did not move to Graphcloud with a trial: the page that claimed free trials returns 404 and pricing is quote-only. It was not only notebook hosting that died: no live page on graphcore.ai offers a trial. |
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Evidence 4
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "refutation","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "Graphcore Bow-2000 IPU","gpu_count": 4}} |
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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
- 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