Tencent Cloud
tencentcloud.com · 6 records in Compute, Inference, Storage · JSON
Records 6
- ★ qualifiesTencent Cloud International (Lighthouse)USD 4.2/month
Computeno free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
- caveatTencent Cloud TCR Individual Edition
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?limit per-ip-shapingevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- trialTencent HY Text Generation Global (Hunyuan-translation)
Inferencefree tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: identityTencent Cloud International
Computefree tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
- fails: egressTencent Cloud COS — new-user free tier
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: egresstencent edgeone free plan / edgeone makers (pages) as storage
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/tencent-cloud-internationalsays fails-identity, compute/tencent-lighthouse-intl says qualifies - identity_kind:
compute/tencent-cloud-internationalsays national-id, compute/tencent-lighthouse-intl says card
- Free allowance
- No free tier; Linux Starter is USD 4.2 per month, or USD 10.08 for the first year against a stated original of USD 50.4 per year
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- USD 4.2/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota0.5 TB a month of outbound transfer; excess billed per GB
- Evidence
- documented10 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 | no free tier; Linux Starter is USD 4.2 per month, or USD 10.08 for the first year against a stated original of USD 50.4 per year unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota 0.5 TB a month is the smallest traffic allowance on any 2 GB row here; at 4 GiB of daily backup upload it is gone in four months of steady use |
| Identity | card card required at signup and before any transaction; USD 1.00 pre-authorisation on binding, cancelled and refunded in 1 to 5 business days; debit accepted, with the vendor's own caveat that 'Some card brands may not support debit cards'; prepaid cards are DISPUTED between two first-party pages: the billing FAQ says 'Tencent Cloud does not support prepaid cards, virtual cards, or gift cards' while the registration doc says 'Seven types of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards are supported'; virtual cards and gift cards are refused on both pages; identity verification is required only for purchases in the Chinese Mainland, not for Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo |
| Egress | 0.5 TB a month on Linux Starter, then out-of-plan transfer is billed per outbound GB at the pay-as-you-go rate free allowance: 0.5 TB |
| Retention | the instance and disk persist while the subscription is paid; the annual price is a first-term promotion and the renewal is USD 50.4 a year |
| Interface | ssh, rest root SSH; the vendor's web console; a REST API where documented |
| Tooling | any SSH client |
| Composes with | two vCPUs and 2 GB for USD 4.2 a month in Hong Kong, Singapore or Tokyo is the largest shape under the line, and the first year at USD 10.08 is the cheapest year on any row that requires no local identity |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | USD 10.08 for the first year is USD 0.84 a month, and the page prints the original USD 50.4 next to it, so the renewal is known rather than hidden. The 2 GB row is the one under the line; Razor Speed at USD 5.0 is 2 vCPU / 1 GB and does not qualify. The free promotional tier is a separate offer and it fails identity: individual verification accepts a passport, ID card, driving licence or work permit from the registration country and takes 2 to 4 business days, and it is required 'if you want to participate in individual promotional campaigns'. The paid Lighthouse plan priced here is buyable without a document for an overseas region. Prepaid is therefore recorded as disputed between two first-party pages rather than accepted; a reader should plan on a credit or debit card. |
| Evidence note | documented price, shape and transfer from the Lighthouse product page read; card and identity rules from Tencent's own account and signup documents | Payment facts re-read on 2026-10-24: the card types, the hold and the identity gate each come from a first-party page quoted in evidence. |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/products/lighthouse | quoted: 'Linux Starter $4.2/month CPU 2 vCPUs MEM 2 GB System disk 40 GB SSD ... Transfer 0.5 TB/month' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/products/lighthouse | quoted: 'Linux Starter Plan ... $10.08/year originally$50.4/year CPU 2vCPUs2GB Transfer 0.5TB/month' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/products/lighthouse | quoted: 'Out-of-plan data transfer is billed by the outbound traffic, i.e., total volume of data transferred over the public network in GB' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/api/378/17985 | quoted: 'Seven types of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards are supported: VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, UnionPay, JCB, DISCOVER, and Diners Club.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/80429 | quoted: 'The account has a credit card bound or has applied for a credit limit.' and 'Identity Verification is required when you purchase or use cloud services in the Chinese Mainland' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378 | quoted: individual verification accepts a passport, ID card, driving licence or work permit and takes 2 to 4 business days, required for promotional campaigns |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/555/7425 | quoted: 'Check your card type. Tencent Cloud does not support prepaid cards, virtual cards, or gift cards, and does not allow to bind enterprise accounts. Please select a credit or debit card of VISA, Master, JCB, DISCOVER, AMEX, or UnionPay. Some card brands may not support debit cards.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/555/7425 | quoted, the hold: 'After the pre-authorization fee of 1 USD is successfully deducted by the system, cancellation of pre-authorization will be automatically triggered. Generally, after 1 to 5 business days, the pre-authorization is cancelled, and the fee is refunded.' and 'To bind a card, pre-authorization deduction of 1 USD is required.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/17985 | the contradicting first-party sentence, on the registration doc last updated 2026-07-08: 'Seven types of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards are supported: VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, UnionPay, JCB, DISCOVER, and Diners Club.' The same page refuses virtual cards: 'Tencent Cloud does not support virtual cards or gift cards' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/80429 | quoted: 'Identity Verification is required when you purchase or use cloud services in the Chinese Mainland' on the international site, against 'Identity Verification must be completed to purchase or use cloud services' on the China site |
More fields 13
| shape | {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 2,"disk_gib": 40,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
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| billing model | monthly or annual prepay |
| term | monthly, or yearly with a first-term promotion |
| m10h usd | 4.2 |
| m24h usd | 4.2 |
| price arithmetic | 4.2 a month monthly, or 10.08 for year one = 10.08/12 = 0.84/mo equivalent; renewal 50.4/12 = 4.20/mo |
| renewal usd | 4.2 |
| first term usd | 0.84 |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS that bills whether it runs or not"} |
| english | yes, the international site is English throughout |
| payment methods | {"card_at_signup": "yes","debit": "accepted-with-condition","prepaid": "disputed","virtual": "refused","hold_amount": "USD 1.00","hold_detail": "pre-authorisation on card binding, cancelled and refunded in 1 to 5 business days","identity": "email, then identity verification only for Chinese Mainland purchases","source_url": "https://www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/555/7425","read_on": "2026-10-24","superseded": "VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, UnionPay, JCB, DISCOVER, Diners Club; debit and prepaid named as accepted"} |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- Free allowance
- Free, count-based only: 'The TCR Individual Edition is free of charge and can be activated directly.' Quotas: 'Number of image namespaces in a single region | 10', 'Number of image repositories in a single region | 500 in the Guangzhou region and 100 in other regions', 'Number of image tags for...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping20 MB/s
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free, count-based only: 'The TCR Individual Edition is free of charge and can be activated directly.' Quotas: 'Number of image namespaces in a single region | 10', 'Number of image repositories in a single region | 500 in the Guangzhou region and 100 in other regions', 'Number of image tags for a single image | 100'. No byte quota is published for Individual Edition. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
10 namespaces/region; 500 repos (Guangzhou) or 100 (elsewhere); 100 tags per image; 'Individual Edition instances don't support quota adjustment.' Image size limit '/' (none listed). Pull speed benchmark 20 MB/s. |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | No per-GB egress charge is documented for Individual Edition; the billing page defines storage and public-network traffic fees only for Enterprise Edition ('The cloud-native artifacts of the TCR Enterprise managed instance ... are stored in your COS bucket. Storage and access fees will apply ... Using the public network to upload and download ... will incur public network traffic fees in COS'). Individual runs on Tencent's shared backend, not your COS bucket. Treat free egress as unverified-but-likely rather than confirmed. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | oci, rclone oci |
| Tooling | docker/skopeo/ORAS. No TCR-specific rclone backend. |
| Composes with | 10 namespaces/region x 500 repos (Guangzhou) x N Tencent accounts; tags per image capped at 100, so blob count per repo is bounded but repo count is not. |
| Reliability | 'the image repository of TCR Individual Edition is shared with all other public cloud accounts, the images that have been pulled/pushed are blocked in the queue and are not displayed. You can try to push the images again' — i.e. pushes intermittently fail silently under contention. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1051/37243 | 'free of charge and can be activated directly'; 10 namespaces, 500/100 repos, 100 tags |
| 2026-10-21 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1051/74856 | Individual: no SLA, no dedicated storage backend, no OCI-artifact hosting (Enterprise only) |
| 2026-10-21 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1051/35483 | storage/traffic fees defined only for Enterprise/COS |
| 2026-10-21 | hkccr.ccs.tencentyun.com/v2/library/nginx/manifests/latest | probe: GET -> 401 (token required, Www-Authenticate realm=https://hkccr.ccs.tencentyun.com/service/token); GET /v2/ -> 401 |
Unknown values 4
- 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
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- A one-time free resource package of 1M tokens for Hunyuan-translation only, shared consumption, valid for 1 year from service activation and deducted before postpaid billing.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- national-idno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1M tokens, one-time, Hunyuan-translation only
- Evidence
- documented25 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | A one-time free resource package of 1M tokens for Hunyuan-translation only, shared consumption, valid for 1 year from service activation and deducted before postpaid billing. After the package is used up or expires the service does not switch to postpaid on its own, and calls return a billing error until postpaid is enabled unit tokens; metered on request-count; one-time-quota |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota the quota covers a single translation model; any other model is billed |
| Identity | national-id account sign-up takes an email address (or a Google or WeChat login) with an emailed code, a mobile number of the registration location with an SMS code, and a payment card (the sign-up flow adds a 1.00 USD pre-authorization). The Tencent HY Global quick start puts real-name authentication before activating the Tencent HY console service; on the international site that is individual identity verification with a government ID card, passport, driver's license or work permit from the registration country, or enterprise verification with business registration documents. The account pages tie identity verification to mainland-China services, partner status and invoicing, so whether the Text Generation Global activation enforces it is unverified: behind a sign-up. The quick start page that states it is the 3D Global one; no text-generation quick start exists |
| Egress | not published |
| Interface | rest |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | the free package covers one translation model only: the product's API lists hunyuan-translation as its model. The other Tencent HY text models (Hy4 preview, Hy3, Hy-MT2-Pro, Hy-MT2-Plus, Hy-MT2-Lite) are sold on TokenHub, whose international edition grants each root account a one-time free trial of 1 million tokens for every language model, valid 1 year on the billing page (a promotion page states a shorter validity), and freezes 10 USD against the account balance or credit limit on each claim |
| Reliability | not assessed: no request was sent to the endpoint |
| Notes | postpaid list price after the package: USD 0.2571 input and USD 0.7714 output per million tokens for Hunyuan-translation; the English edition's free-quota table reads 100M tokens, while the Chinese edition reads 100万 (1,000,000) tokens and the English worked example consumes the package at 1 million tokens, so 1M is the figure held |
| Evidence note | documented the quota terms are read from the vendor's own purchase-guide PDF dated 2026-01-27 for the global product; the sign-up pages were read, and whether the activation enforces identity verification for a non-mainland account is unverified: behind a sign-up |
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Evidence 25
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | a free quota is issued on first-time activation of the global text generation service |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the free package is 100M tokens for Hunyuan-translation, valid for 1 year from activation |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | no automatic switch to postpaid billing after the free package ends |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | postpaid list price for Hunyuan-translation in USD per million input and output tokens |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the Chinese edition of the same global purchase guide (updated 2026-01-27) gives the Hunyuan-translation shared free package as 100万 tokens, valid 1 year from activation |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the English edition's own worked example consumes the free package at 1 million tokens |
| 2026-10-28 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the one-time package, token unit and no automatic postpaid switch are unchanged in the global purchase guide |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1284/75287 | the Tencent HY Global quick start puts real-name authentication before activating the Tencent HY console service |
| 2026-11-03 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1300_78935_ | TokenHub on the international site gives every language model a free trial of 1 million tokens, 1 year validity |
| 2026-11-03 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the English worked example consumes the package at 1 million tokens, against the table's 100M |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/80678 | the account pages tie international-site identity verification to mainland-China services, partner status and invoicing |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/10495 | not published |
| 2026-11-03 | intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/378/17985 | the sign-up flow asks for a mobile number of the registration location |
| 2026-11-03 | intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/378/17985 | the international sign-up flow has a step that binds a payment card |
| 2026-11-03 | intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/378/17985 | card binding issues a 1.00 USD pre-authorization |
| 2026-11-03 | intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/378/17985 | an account registers with an email address, a Google account or WeChat |
| 2026-11-03 | intl.cloud.tencent.com/document/product/378/80429 | using cloud products on the international site needs a bound bank card or a credit authorization |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1284/77188 | the Text Generation Global API lists hunyuan-translation as its model |
| 2026-11-03 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1300_78935_ | the TokenHub free trial is one-time for each root account |
| 2026-11-03 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1300_78935_ | each TokenHub free-package claim freezes 10 USD against the account balance or credit limit |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78939 | the international TokenHub quick start requires sign-up and identity verification before use |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937 | the international TokenHub price table lists Tencent Hy3 (USD 0.132 input, 0.528 output per million tokens) |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/78937 | the international TokenHub price table lists the Hy-MT2 translation models (Plus: USD 0.074 input, 0.295 output) |
| 2026-11-03 | www.tencentcloud.com/act/pro/tokenhub | the TokenHub promotion page states 90 days validity, against 1 year on the billing page |
| 2026-11-03 | staticintl.cloudcachetci.com/doc/pdf/product/pdf/1284_75280_ | the Chinese edition of the global purchase guide gives the Hunyuan-translation package as 100万 (1,000,000) tokens, shared, valid 1 year |
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
Tencent Cloud International
ComputeSibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/tencent-cloud-internationalsays fails-identity, compute/tencent-lighthouse-intl says qualifies - identity_kind:
compute/tencent-cloud-internationalsays national-id, compute/tencent-lighthouse-intl says card
- Free allowance
- A 3-month free trial of one Lighthouse 2C2G30M instance or one CVM S5 2C4G instance, plus 50 GB of COS storage for 6 months, 14 days of EdgeOne, a free monthly TRTC quota, and about 26 further product trials, all at once, for a new account.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- national-idno card, phone required
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped3 months on the machine, 6 months on the 50 GB COS bucket, 14 days on EdgeOne; the campaign ends Dec 31, 2026 24:00 GMT+8; one free experience and one discount renewal per product per real-name subject; renewal after the trial is at the...
- Evidence
- documented13 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 3-month free trial of one Lighthouse 2C2G30M instance or one CVM S5 2C4G instance, plus 50 GB of COS storage for 6 months, 14 days of EdgeOne, a free monthly TRTC quota, and about 26 further product trials, all at once, for a new account. The free tier page states the trial runs to at least 2026-12-31. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; time-boxed |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
3 months on the machine, 6 months on the COS bucket, 14 days on EdgeOne; the campaign ends Dec 31, 2026 24:00 GMT+8, and the discounted renewal is not available on a trial purchase |
| Binding | retention-clamped the machine is gone at 3 months and the campaign closes on Dec 31, 2026, so the clock binds before the money does; but the gate that decides whether a user gets in at all is the real-name document, which is why the verdict is fails-identity rather than trial-only |
| Identity | national-id TWO GATES, and only the second one costs a document. GATE 1, opening an account: an email address (or a Google account, or WeChat) with an emailed code; a registration location, which 'cannot be changed' once set; the individual's name and address; 'the mobile number of the registration location', which must receive an SMS code and is capped at 'at most 5 Tencent Cloud accounts' per number; and a bound card - 'Seven types of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards are supported: VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, UnionPay, JCB, DISCOVER, and Diners Club', with 'a 1.00 USD pre-authorization' that is 'automatically canceled ... within 1 to 5 business days'. No ID document at this step. Virtual and gift cards are refused: 'Tencent Cloud does not support virtual cards or gift cards', and 'Some card brands may not support debit cards'. |
| Egress | not stated |
| Retention | The trial is time-boxed and does not renew itself: Lighthouse 2C2G30M and CVM S5 2C4G each run 3 months, COS 50 GB runs 6 months, EdgeOne runs 14 days, and the campaign runs 'From now until Dec 31, 2026, 24:00 GMT+8'. Renewal is a manual, paid act: 'Before the product expires, you can renew it in the product control panel', and 'The discounted renewal will not be available for the products purchased during the free trial period, and the renewal will be charged at the official selling price.' A destroyed instance forfeits the trial: 'if the free examples are destroyed, it is deemed to give up the free use'. |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | The Lighthouse 2C2G is a reachable box in Singapore, Bangkok or Frankfurt for 90 days and the COS 50 GB runs 180 days, so the two windows do not end together: storage outlives the server by about three months, which is the wrong way round for a backup target. |
| Reliability | no reliability event observed; nothing was signed up for |
| Notes | CONTRADICTION SETTLED 2026-10-24: THE VERDICT WAS RIGHT AND THE RECORD'S REASON FOR IT WAS WRONG. The record's identity_cost.detail asserted nothing ('as stated by the provider's signup page'), and its retention text overstated the gate - 'the account cannot be opened at all without a government document' is false. The two first-party stories are both true of different things. The Identity Verification Overview scopes verification to three triggers - mainland-China purchases, partner applications and self-service invoicing - and buying a Lighthouse or CVM instance in Singapore, Bangkok or Frankfurt is none of them. But the free trial is a campaign, not a purchase, and its own Rules make authentication an eligibility condition: 'All international site users who have registered on Tencent Cloud and completed enterprise or individual authentication ... are eligible to participate.' The Chinese original says 实名认证, the same term the verification doc is titled with, so this is the ID-document check and not an email confirmation. So the answer to 'is it mainland only' is: mainland only for ordinary purchases, ALL regions for the free trial. Hence fails-identity stands, now resting on a quoted sentence instead of a placeholder, and the account gate is correctly described as email + phone + card rather than a document. What this does NOT establish: whether the checkout enforces the campaign rule before or after the trial order is placed. The rule is stated, and the enforcement is inferred from the rule. |
| Evidence note | documented every step of both gates is quoted from a first-party Tencent Cloud International page read, including the campaign Rules modal and its Chinese original. |
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Evidence 13
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.tencentcloud.com/act/pro/FreeTier | 'LighthouseFree Trial for 3 months', 'Lighthouse 2C2G30M', 'Cloud Virtual MachineFree Trial for 3 months', 'CVM S5 2C4G', 'COS 50GB Free Trial for 6 months', 'EdgeOne Free Trial for 14 days', 'TRTC Free Monthly Quota', quoted; the page lists 'Show you 30 trial products' |
| 2026-10-22 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/10495 | review 'within 2-4 business days', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1300/80423 | 'TokenHub currently provides a one-time free trial quota for each root account' and 'This campaign is valid until December 31, 2026', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | www.studentoffers.co/offer/tencent-cloud | a third-party claim that a USD 1 pre-authorisation is required at signup and that virtual cards are refused; this contradicts Tencent's own walkthrough, which describes verification replacing the card, so the card term is contested and unverified either way, reported |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/80678 | quoted, the general verification trigger: 'If you need to purchase or use cloud services in the Chinese mainland (excluding Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), and Taiwan (China)), apply to become a Tencent Cloud partner, or use the online self-service invoice feature, you must complete identity verification for your Tencent Cloud account.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/zh/document/product/378/80678 | the same sentence in the Chinese original: '如果您需要购买或使用中国大陆地区云服务（不含中国香港、中国澳门及中国台湾地区）、申请成为腾讯云合作伙伴、线上自助开票等，需要您完成腾讯云账号的实名认证。' - the English is a translation of binding text, not a rendering artefact |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/act/pro/FreeTier | quoted from the campaign Rules modal, the eligibility gate: 'All international site users who have registered on Tencent Cloud and completed enterprise or individual authentication (excluding co-authors and sub-accounts) are eligible to participate.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/zh/act/pro/FreeTier | the same eligibility rule in the Chinese original: '腾讯云官网已注册且完成企业或个人实名认证的国际站用户均可参与（协作者与子用户账号除外）' - 实名认证 is the same term the Identity Verification Overview uses, so 'authentication' here means the ID-document check |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/10495 | quoted, and this is the sentence that ties the two pages together: 'If you want to participate in individual promotional campaigns on the Tencent Cloud official website, or if you want to register your Tencent Cloud account and cloud resources under your personal name, you must complete individual identity verification.' The free trial is an individual promotional campaign. |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/10495 | not published |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/17985 | quoted, the account gate: 'Tencent Cloud accounts can be registered using an email address, a Google account, or WeChat'; 'Enter the mobile number of the registration location'; 'Each mobile number can be used for at most 5 Tencent Cloud accounts'; and 'Seven types of credit cards/debit cards/prepaid cards are supported: VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, UnionPay, JCB, DISCOVER, and Diners Club.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/378/17985 | quoted, the pre-authorisation and the exclusions: 'the system will issue a 1.00 USD pre-authorization on your bound bank card to verify its validity ... the pre-authorization will be automatically canceled ... within 1 to 5 business days'; 'Tencent Cloud does not support virtual cards or gift cards'; 'Some card brands may not support debit cards.' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.tencentcloud.com/act/pro/FreeTier | quoted, shape, term and the absence of auto-renewal: 'Trial configuration: Lighthouse 2C2G30M' for '3 months', 'Trial configuration：CVM S5 2C4G' for '3 months', 'COS' '50GB Free Trial for 6 months', 'Free Trial for 14 days'; 'Before the product expires, you can renew it in the product control panel'; 'The discounted renewal will not be available for the products purchased during the free trial period, and the renewal will be charged at the official selling price.'; 'From now until Dec 31, 2026, 24:00 GMT+8' |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "regional","free_tier_kind": "time-boxed","shape": {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 4,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 5
- 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
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field
- Free allowance
- 50 GB STANDARD storage capacity, valid 6 months (180 days), new users only.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 50 GB STANDARD storage capacity, valid 6 months (180 days), new users only. Some third-party summaries claim enterprise accounts get 1 TB/month for 6 months — not stated on the vendor page, so unverified. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | card (placeholder) inferred from the category 'iaas'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence |
| Egress | Explicitly NOT covered: 'The free quota resource packages cannot be used to offset billable items for non-STANDARD storage usage, such as ... requests, and traffic.' Public network downstream traffic is billed from byte one at ~$0.1/GB. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone s3 |
| Tooling | COS XML/S3-compatible API — rclone 's3' provider 'Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)'; COSCLI; SDKs. Public-read buckets and pre-signed URLs supported. |
| Composes with | One free package per new account; 50 GB x 6 months. Account multiplication requires separate verified identities. |
| Reliability | Reliable; the trap is that egress is charged from the first byte, so a public bucket can generate a real bill while storage itself is still free. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/436/6240 | 'New user | 50GB STANDARD storage capacity package | 6 months (180 days)'; 'cannot be used to offset ... requests, and traffic' |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "50 GB STANDARD storage capacity, valid 6 months (180 days), new users only. Some third-party summaries claim enterprise accounts get 1 TB/month for 6 months — not stated on the vendor page, so unverified.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- 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
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- Two separate failures.
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Two separate failures. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1145/70405 | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | pages.edgeone.ai/document/limits-and-quotas | cited as the basis of the rejection: Two separate failures. |
| 2026-10-21 | raw.githubusercontent.com/tencentedgeone/edgeone-makers-tool | cited as the basis of the rejection: Two separate failures. |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "Two separate failures.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field