Microsoft AI

Free allowance: 'a total of $5 million in Azure service credits' across a 'two-year program', with 'scientific collaboration with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab'.
Verdict: fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: write-gatedthe geographic condition - based in or benefiting Washington State - is the failure, not the identity: an applicant outside Washington cannot meet it however strong the project.
Evidence: documented2 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	'a total of $5 million in Azure service credits' across a 'two-year program', with 'scientific collaboration with the Microsoft AI for Good Lab'. Eligibility is broad on identity and narrow on place: 'entities and/or projects must be based in or benefit Washington State and its residents. Eligible entities include nonprofits, academic institutions, individual researchers, startups, and businesses'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) the geographic condition - based in or benefiting Washington State - is the failure, not the identity: an applicant outside Washington cannot meet it however strong the project. source
Identity	email not published
Egress	not stated
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Azure credits compose with nothing in the TPU class and only weakly with the rest, because the credits buy Azure list-price capacity rather than a quota.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The one Microsoft program found that names 'individual researchers' as an eligible entity, which is exactly why the location clause matters: the door is open to an individual and shut to anyone outside Washington State. A per-award figure of about USD 250,000 is inferred from USD 5,000,000 split across 'about 20 projects' in a press account, and is reported as an estimate, not as a published amount.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ai-for-goo	'a total of $5 million in Azure service credits'; 'entities and/or projects must be based in or benefit Washington State and its residents'; 'Eligible entities include nonprofits, academic institutions, individual researchers, startups, and businesses'; quoted; page 200
2026-10-22	www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-launches-5m-grant-program-fo	'the pool of $5 million in Azure credits will probably be split up among about 20 projects and organizations', and the 2025 round closed on Feb.

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facets	`{"class": "research-credit","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}`

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