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- Free allowance
- Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage.
- 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
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage. Pro: 100 GB/month. 'Free forever for academic research' tier: 200 GB of cloud storage, unlimited tracked hours, up to 25 GB/month Weave ingestion, up to 100 seats — requires an active academic email address. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Not metered separately for artifact reads; storage is billed as a rolling 30-day consumption average in GB-days, so churn does not help you. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, rest rest |
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| Tooling | wandb Python SDK, wandb artifact API, artifacts pull via wandb artifact get; W&B also accepts 'reference artifacts' pointing at an external bucket (S3/GCS) which do NOT count against quota — that is the real trick here. |
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| Composes with | 200 GB per academic account x up to 100 seats in one academic org = 20 TB of quota, but the seats clause is about people, not storage pools — storage is per-entity and would need to be checked. The clean multiplier is reference artifacts: unlimited pointers to external storage at zero quota cost (useful as an index layer over Kaggle/Modal bytes, not as storage itself). |
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| Reliability | Migrated from wandb.ai branding to CoreWeave Forge (the pricing page 301s to coreweave.com/forge-pricing) — product continuity is fine, but as an academic user you are now depending on a GPU-cloud vendor's free tier. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | wandb.ai/site/pricing | > https://coreweave.com/forge-pricing — plan table: 'Storage Free 5 GB/mo, Pro 100 GB/mo, Additional storage $0.03/GB' |
| 2026-10-21 | coreweave.com/forge-pricing | 'Free forever for academic research ... 200GB free cloud storage ... up to 25 GB per month of Weave data ingestion, and up to 100 seats. An active academic email address is required.' |
| 2026-10-21 | coreweave.com/forge-pricing | 'Does tracked data stored on an external server count against my storage quota? No. ... Reference artifacts and data stored in an external storage bucket will not count.' |
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| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage. Pro: 100 GB/month. 'Free forever for academic research' tier: 200 GB of cloud storage, unlimited tracked hours, up to 25 GB/month Weave ingestion, up to 100 seats — requires an active academic email address.","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