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Offers that fail on identity, egress or quota, and services that no longer exist. Each keeps its evidence, because a dead end is a finding.

1fails: egress
148fails: identity
21fails: quota
78dead
6self-hosted, listed last

Key

★ qualifies: usable as stated; the read path was probed
caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
trial: a time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
paid: no free allowance; listed for its price
fails: identity: the identity required is not reachable without it
fails: egress: data cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
fails: quota: the free allowance is too small to matter
dead: the offer or the service no longer exists
self-hosted, last resort: software or a node that the user installs, runs and maintains. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
free tier, no free tier: the record states a free allowance, or states that it has none
identity email: what a signup asks for. A question mark after it: a placeholder, not read from a source
no card, card, card?: a payment card is not asked, is asked, or the record does not say
limit: the limit that runs out first, for example request-rate or volume-quota
evidence: how the record is backed, strongest first: measured, documented, reported, inferred, unverified
fresh until, stale since: the check is inside its window, or past it, on today's date
inherited, checked live: inherited: the record was carried from an earlier source, and its check date is an upper bound. Checked live: the record was checked against the service. The chip filters on it
verdict: a judgement of the whole offer for the need of its topic. The data holds no number as a cut-off. Read the free allowance and the limits of the record, and decide for your own need
duplicate, disagrees: another record holds the same offer, or a sibling record states another value

How to read a record

Rejected 170

fails: egress 1

fails: egressLinuxzoo
why 'Firstly, the machines are sandboxed from the internet, so no outgoing traffic is supported.' and 'Free users are basically sandboxed to the virtual network.' There is no outbound path at all.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24

fails: identity 148

fails: identityZenix open-source sponsorship
why An OSI-licensed public repository at least six months old, with activity in the last 90 days, at least two active maintainers, a documented infrastructure need, and one traction signal (100 GitHub stars, 1,000...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence measuredstale on 2026-12-07
fails: identity1517 Medici Project
why The fund states it cannot pay outside North America: '1517 supports hackers and makers all over the world through community and mentorship but unfortunately due to international regulations and rules, we are unable...
free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityACCESS
why Institution: the allocations policy states 'Principal Investigators (PIs) and users must now be affiliated with an eligible organization' and 'Unaffiliated individuals are no longer eligible to request or be added to...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAI Singapore
why The award is co-funding against a Singapore organisation's own cash and manpower contribution, delivered by an AI Singapore engineering team, so an applicant has to be an established organisation with staff to second...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAkamai EdgeWorkers
why Institution: 'If you have an active Akamai contract and login credentials for Akamai Control Center you can use these instructions to sign up for the EdgeWorkers Evaluation tier', and without a contract the route is...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityALCC
why Available to researchers from universities, industry and government agencies with no DOE sponsorship required, but every participating institution must sign the ASCR facility user agreement, and the award is capped...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityALCF Director's Discretionary
why The DD award itself waives the institutional user agreement that INCITE, ALCC and OLCF DD all require, but the account application still asks for an employer and every non-US citizen must obtain DOE foreign-national...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAlfred P. Sloan
why No unsolicited proposals are read at all, so the route is a letter of inquiry to a named programme director, and most programmes do not accept even that.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAmazon Alexa Prize
why The university is the unit of entry: a team must be drawn from a single accredited university with proof of enrolment, so an unaffiliated person cannot form an eligible team however strong the project.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAMD University Program
why No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated on the pages read.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityAnthropic AI
why Credit is restricted to researchers attached to a research institution or nonprofit, so an unaffiliated applicant has no qualifying category however strong the proposal.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityARCHER2 Pump Priming
why Pump Priming is open only to researchers within the EPSRC remit, meaning eligibility for UKRI EPSRC funding and a UK research organisation, so the form is light but the applicant still needs a UK institutional base.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAWS Activate, Portfolio
why Requires an Organizational ID issued by an Activate Provider, which is a VC, accelerator or startup organization.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22disagrees
fails: identityAWS Cloud Credit
why An institution-issued email address on a .edu, .org or equivalent domain, plus an eligible role at an accredited research institution (full-time faculty, full-time research staff, or an enrolled...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityAzure
why A school email address and full-time enrollment at an accredited, degree-granting institution: the FAQ requires that you 'verify your academic status through your organization's email address', the offer page says...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAzure Research Credits
why The entry form rejects a personal address by rule - 'Must be a work or school email alias' - and requires an institution name, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot open the conversation.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityBaidu PaddlePaddle AI
why The mainland phone plus real-name check binds before any quota: without the 16 V100-hours a day are unreachable, and behind it the PaddlePaddle-only image restricts what runs at all
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityBeget
why A mobile number that receives an SMS code, restricted by country: the free-hosting rules state the applicant enters a mobile number and the SMS code, and a forum post describing the signup form states 'Beget only...
free tieridentity country-phonecard?limit per-object-capevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityBlinkenshell
why Five steps, and step five is 'IRL Verification.
free tieridentity any-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityBoxedTux
why 'Only academic email addresses are allowed.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale since 2026-11-01
fails: identityBpifrance
why The beneficiary must be an entity registered in France and less than one year old, or a physical person in pre-creation accompanied by a labelled incubator, so the door needs either French incorporation or a French...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityCamberCloud Student plan
why GitHub sign-in plus an active GitHub Student Developer Pack: the plan is claimed 'by signing in with GitHub' and 'requires an active Student Developer Pack', and it is free 'while you're enrolled'.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityCDTI Neotec 2026
why Beneficiaries must be 'constituidas como maximo en los tres anos anteriores a la fecha de cierre' and registered in the Spanish mercantile registry, with a minimum eligible budget of EUR 175,000 that the applicant...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityCerebras Inference Research
why A written proposal reviewed by Cerebras, with a principal investigator attached to a university, is the gate; the currency is inference tokens rather than machine time, so no node-hour figure exists to plan against.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityChameleon Cloud
why No binding constraint identified
free tieridentity emailno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityCINECA ISCRA
why ISCRA opens only to researchers affiliated to an Italian research organisation, with the PI expected to be affiliated to an Italian institution and the work performed at one, so nationality is irrelevant but the...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityCloud.ru Evolution
why Card: the RUB 4,000 grant is 'credited for the first bank card attached and only for a card never previously attached to any Cloud.ru account', so a card is required to receive it, while 'paid consumption is...
free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityCloudLab
why Creating a project requires being "faculty, senior research staff, or in some other senior position" and passes a staff review that takes a few days; joining one requires the leader's approval, so an unaffiliated...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityCSCS Small
why "Small projects are intended for applicants from the Swiss user community" and every proposer "must hold at least a postdoctoral position at an academic institution", so the 8,000 Alps node-hours need a Swiss...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDatadog (Compute)
why The application form requires full name, email, project name, project website or repository, an open source licence and a description, with no card or phone field; eligibility rests on the project's team (its regular...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-01
fails: identityDeepgram Startup Program
why Institution: the applicant must be 'An AI builder or early-stage startup' in production or launching within 6 months, and the application asks for 'information about your company's funding, product, and team', with...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDeepInfra DeepStart
why The funding gate fails before the tokens do: 'Have raised between 250K and 10M USD' and 'Founded in the last 2 years' are company facts, and the credits also expire one year after approval.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDeepnote Education plan
why A school email address connected to the account: the edu page states the plan is '100% free for students, teachers, and researchers who connect their accounts to school email addresses'.
free tieridentity institutioncard?evidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDesignSafe-CI
why The PI is "typically a faculty member or research scientist at a US-based academic institution" and the enumerated alternatives are all US organisations, agencies, school districts, museums or companies; a...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDigital Catapult
why Applicants must be 'a UK based registered company, or prove they are a company that has an establishment in the UK', must 'undertake all activity in the UK', and must be 'eligible to receive GBP 18,000 in State...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDigital Research Alliance
why No binding constraint identified
identity emailno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityDrivenData / DOE
why Nationality decides it before anything else: the official rules require a solo competitor to be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, so the largest prize on the platform is closed for a user regardless of skill or...
free tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityE2E NetworksUSD 33.65/month
why The named credits require an incorporated company with 10 or fewer employees; the self-serve route requires an identity document, an address document and up to 3 business days of manual review
identity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityElevenLabs Startup Grants
why A review committee decides: the grant is applied for and approved 'in our sole discretion', so a person with an email address alone holds a company-shaped application with no product to show; the 33M characters are...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityEnterprise
why An Estonian registered company is necessary and not sufficient: the e-Residency guidance states 'Fully remote operations with no connections to Estonia (except the fact that the business is incorporated in Estonia)...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityEnterprise Compute Initiative
why Eligibility requires 'A business entity registered or incorporated and is physically present in Singapore', 'Total organisation headcount based in Singapore should be at least 10 pax' and 'a tech team of 2 or more...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityEuroHPC AI Factories
why The call requires the applicant organisation to prove its status with a valid VAT number and a Participant Identification Code, and requires the PI to hold an employment contract in that organisation, which excludes...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityEuroHPC JU Benchmark
why The benchmark tier is the cheapest door in the EuroHPC stack, but it is still awarded through a proposal evaluated by the Access Resource Committee, and the call text targets researchers and HPC application...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFABRIC
why An institutional login through CILogon: the signup guide states 'Currently, FABRIC requires the use of your institutional login via CI Logon.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFeaturize
why Unverified, inferred: https://featurize.cn/register answers 404, so no registration form was read.
no free tieridentity country-phone?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFOSSVPS
why The gate is a reputation held on one of two named forums plus a country the operator will accept, so an applicant with no LET or LES history and a blocked country cannot enter at all, whatever their open-source work.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFreeMach
why No card, but a reputation gate: quoted 'Must be an active user of LowEndSpirit, HostedTalk, and/or LowEndTalk communities'; 'LES/HT/LET account must be at least 3 months old at time of application'; 'Must pass a...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityfreevps.edu.pl
why Student status is verified before activation; the page states 'simply verify your student status' and does not describe the check
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFugaku Trial Access
why The project representative must obtain approval from the head of their organisation and must belong to a legal entity, so an individual with no organisation cannot lead the project even though the call is free and...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityFuriosaAI Furiosa Access
why The gate is a business email and a sales conversation before any hardware is allocated; nothing about quota binds earlier because no quota is published.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGabia Cloud Gen1
why A Korean public certificate is required to pay by card: the service page states an individual pays by automatic credit-card charge and that automatic payment requires card authentication with a 공인인증서, and the...
no free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGEANT Testbeds Service
why No cost, but entry needs an endorsement from a national research and education network plus a project description, and quotas are set by the operator, so a person with no NREN affiliation cannot request a VM.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGitHub Copilot Student
why Student status verified by GitHub Education: the plan is "Copilot Student" against Pro at USD 10 a month, and the vendor states "GitHub reevaluates your eligibility every month", so the licence lapses when...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGitHub Student Developer
why Student-status documents reviewed by the GitHub Education team: the application page requires that you 'Provide documents that prove your current student status', accepting 'A picture of your school ID with current...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGMI Cloud SCALE
why Admission is by application to a selected cohort of AI startups ('Apply to Cohort 3'); the application form's fields (email, company, stage) were not read: unverified: the form is behind the apply link.
free tieridentity institution?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityGoogle
why The application requires a business email matching the startup public website domain, a billing account administered by a user on that domain, and an active website describing company, team and product.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGoogle Cloud research
why The organisation field is a closed picker over an accredited-institution list plus a faculty-directory URL, so an unaffiliated applicant cannot fill the form at all.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGPU Outlet
why 'Every participant is a company, not a person.' Sign-up takes a first name, last name and work email with a 6-digit email code (or Google or GitHub); Buyers pay the marketplace nothing and sellers pay a 2% success fee.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityGraphcore IPU Cloud
why No published price and no self-serve checkout: the entry step is a quote from Graphcore sales or Cirrascale for a four-card minimum.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityGreen Compute
why Self-serve account: the home page sign-up step reads 'Free account, $5 minimum top-up to start.
no free tieridentity institution?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityGrid'5000
why The open-access route for academics outside France has been withdrawn, so an unaffiliated person has neither the French-site justification nor the sponsoring lab that the account form now expects.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityHaidian District Elastic
why The money is municipal and the bar is a credential screen, not a signup: CNY 27,000,000 a year over at least 30 projects caps the average award near CNY 900,000, and the six criteria require an elite affiliation or a...
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityHLRS test access
why Test access is offered to potential applicants for GCS Large-Scale and rolling regular projects, which are German national calls for investigators at German research institutions, so the account presumes an eligible...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityHostData.id (NAT SG SSD 1GB)USD 1.1/month
why A WHMCS account; the registration fields were not read because the cart refused the product before a checkout page was reachable.
no free tieridentity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
fails: identityHuawei Cloud (international)
why Card required before any trial: 'A payment method must be specified to purchase Huawei Cloud products and services.' The authorisation is USD 1: quoted 'When you add a credit card, Huawei Cloud makes an authorization...
identity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
fails: identityHub71
why Onboarding requires registering an ADGM tech licence subsidiary in Abu Dhabi, and 'At least one founder is expected to commit to relocating long-term and building a team out of Abu Dhabi', so the cost is...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityHume AI
why Access is granted by a sales conversation: 'contact our team to request access' means the free allowance that existed in September 2026 cannot be signed up for in October 2026, and a person with an email address has...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityINCITE
why The PI may be foreign and unaffiliated on paper, but the award is conditional on each participating institution signing the ANL/ORNL user agreement, and the applicant must already hold all funding and resources...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityIndiaAI Compute Portal
why Institution: registration needs 'their name, institute / organization email address and mobile number', so a mobile number is collected alongside an institutional email.
free tieridentity institutioncard?phonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityInfomaniak Public Cloud
why Card required, CHF 20 authorisation hold: quoted 'A bank card is also required.
identity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityIntel Liftoff
why The application is reviewed and the unit is a startup, so the gate is a company identity and an approval, not a quota.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityIONOS CLOUD (IONOS CLOUD test account)
why Card required, hold amount not published: quoted 'After you enter your company and credit card details, you will have access to a test account within a few minutes.' The page also states 'if, for example, a credit...
identity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
fails: identityIT4Innovations Open Access
why "Eligible applicant: Employee of a Czech research organisation", so the 10,300 Karolina GPU node-hours, which is 82,400 A100-hours at eight GPUs per node, are closed to anyone without Czech employment.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityiwinvUSD 4.23/month
why South Korean nationality and a Korean mobile phone are both required: '대한민국 국적의 만 14세 이상이며 핸드폰 인증이 가능한 사용자라면 누구나 회원가입 후 서비스 이용이 가능합니다.' Card registration needs a Korean public certificate: '정상적인 카드 등록을 위해 공동인증서가...
no free tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityJetstream2
why This finding changes compute/access: that record states the 400,000 credit limit but does not convert it, so a reader cannot tell whether Explore buys an afternoon or a year.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityJSC Test
why Applications may be filed only by applicants employed at a university or research facility in Germany, so the nationality bar is zero and the German employment bar is absolute.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityKakaoCloud
why A registered business is required before signup: the signup guide states a copy of the Korean business registration certificate (saeopja-deungnokjeung) must be prepared and that uploading it with its registration...
free tieridentity institutioncardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityKoyeb (Free Instance)
why Card required even for the free Instance; USD 29 pre-authorisation hold, released immediately or within 7 to 21 days depending on the issuer; a prorated Pro charge is taken at the same moment; debit accepted; prepaid...
free tieridentity cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityLambda Cloud credits
why Requires current NVIDIA Inception membership, which requires official incorporation, plus a credit card issued in one of the listed countries.
free tieridentity institutioncardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityLCCF Horizon Leadership
why Horizon is open to US researchers working in open research and the PI is typically faculty or a research scientist at a US academic institution; the page also requires current peer-reviewed research funding to...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityLocawebUSD 4.74/month
why A CPF is a mandatory field at checkout, alongside full name, RG, address and phone: 'Dados solicitados no momento da compra: 1.
no free tieridentity national-idno cardphoneevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityLUMI
why The consortium covers Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland plus EuroHPC JU; the Finnish route needs affiliation with a Finnish higher-education or...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityMagalu Cloud
why A Brazilian tax number plus a credit card: billing data requires 'Nome completo ou razao social', 'CPF ou CNPJ valido', 'Endereco de faturamento' and 'Cartao de credito valido', and the CPF/CNPJ cannot be changed...
free tieridentity national-idcardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityMalaysia Digital Acceleration
why The applicant must be 'Incorporated in Malaysia under Companies Act 1965 or the Companies Act 2016' and be, or have a live application for, a Malaysia Digital or MSC Malaysia status company, and the published...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityMatpool
why Registration is documented as a mobile number plus an SMS code: the register page shows the steps translated as 'verify mobile number', then the mobile number field and the SMS code field.
free tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityMicrosoft AI
why 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.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityMicrosoft Azure credits
why There is no application route at all: an award now depends on a Microsoft product team choosing a project it already depends on, which no individual can initiate.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityMicrosoft Learn Student
why USD 150 a month of Azure credit is the largest recurring student compute grant found in this class, but it needs full-time enrollment plus an Azure for Students account, and the credit arrives only after onboarding...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityMLPerf
why Two gates stack: the Training and Inference working groups require organisational membership, and even a non-member submission needs a signed test agreement and a trademark licence before a result can be published...
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityModal (Starter)USD 9.99/month
why A payment method on file before anything runs: 'you must have a payment method on file in order to use Modal'.
free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityMongoDB
why The base tier asks for a company less than seven years old at Series A or earlier with an active website and a LinkedIn profile, and refuses development shops and agencies.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNAIRR Pilot
why A US institutional email address: the call states 'the email address you provide must be your institutional email.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNAISS / PDC
why The free test allocation is for academic researchers at postdoctoral level or above, and the documented exception for people based outside Sweden requires membership of a Swedish research group with a Swedish supervisor.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNational AI Innovation
why The general requirement reads 'All team members must be Nigerian citizens or registered Nigerian entities', and the Innovation & Enterprise track adds 'Individual applicants must be Nigerian citizens aged 18 or...
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNAVER Cloud Platform
why A payment method registered plus real-name mobile verification, and Korean residence for the free server: the credit event page says the KRW 100,000 credit applies only after registering a payment method, and the...
free tieridentity cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNebius research grants
why The eligible-role list names only students, postdocs and staff of accredited institutions, so an unaffiliated applicant has no category to apply under.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNERSC Exploratory
why An Institutional User Agreement between Berkeley Lab and the PI's sponsoring organisation is required when the project is not federally (US) funded, so an unaffiliated applicant needs an organisation willing to sign...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNHN Cloud
why A mobile phone that can receive an SMS code, plus a payment method: the user guide states an individual member needs a mobile phone capable of SMS confirmation and that members are split at signup into Korean and...
free tieridentity country-phonecardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNobus Cloud
why Institution: the application form requires 'Business Name' and 'Company Registration/Incorporation Number' alongside 'Work Email' and 'Phone Number', so the credit is closed to an individual.
free tieridentity institutioncard?phonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNorthflank, Sandbox (free)
why A payment method is required for every plan: the billing documentation states 'all users must add a payment method to start creating resources on Northflank, regardless of plan selection'.
free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityNSF NCAR Derecho
why "To use Derecho, you must be a U.S.-based researcher, and your research must be in the Earth system sciences or related to Earth system science", so the half-million core-hours fail on both country and field before...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNumFOCUS Small Development
why The applicant must be an existing NumFOCUS fiscally sponsored or affiliated project before the grant exists, which is the whole gate; a person with a useful repository and no affiliation cannot submit.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNVIDIA Academic Grant
why A four-page proposal reviewed by an awards panel, gated on full-time faculty status at a PhD-granting institution, so an unaffiliated applicant fails before the proposal is read.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNVIDIA DGX Cloud
why A business relationship is the gate: workspace activation is a manual review by an NVIDIA technical account manager — "Contact your TAM to activate your Workspace.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityNVIDIA Inception
why Explicitly requires the company to be 'officially incorporated', a working website, a business email on a non-generic domain (gmail.com and info@ aliases refused), and two named contacts, with a carve-out that solo...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityOLCF Director's Discretionary
why The PI must sign a PI Agreement, pass an ORNL export-control review and a Personnel Access System check, and have a User Agreement executed between UT-Battelle and the PI's institution, so a person with no...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityOpenReward Sandboxes
why 'We support researchers with credits.
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityOpenSSF Alpha-Omega
why Every published engagement is a named foundation or project entity that can hold a contract and pay staff; no individual application route is published at all.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityOracle Startup Growth
why Third-party summaries publish two different ceilings, USD 100,000 from the rules and USD 60,000 from the launch announcement, and one describes a Latin America rollout tied to OPN membership.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityOSPool
why Eligibility is an affiliation with a US-based academic, government or non-profit institution or project; an unaffiliated person cannot obtain a full OSPool account, and the guest notebook is the only route that does...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityPSC Neocortex
why A PI at a US academic or non-profit institution plus a reviewed ACCESS allocation request, so identity fails before any quota does.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityQiniu Cloud AI
why Real-name verification of the account before any free allowance is granted: the free-quota page states the allowance is automatic once the service is activated and real-name verification completed.
no free tieridentity national-idcard?limit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityRES
why The PI must still be affiliated with an institution in an EU Member State or associated state, so the nationality test is the loosest found but the affiliation test is unchanged, and a Spanish team member is strongly...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySakura Cloud certification
why A Sakura Internet member ID plus a Japanese address and a Japanese phone number that answers a voice call: the help page states services are premised on use inside Japan and asks for a Japanese address and phone, and...
free tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySakura Cloud student
why Enrollment at a Japanese school is the door: the program pays JPY 100,000 a month in cloud resources, and none of it is reachable without student status at a Japanese institution plus a passed certification exam, so...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySambaNova Cloud
why A payment method and purchased credits before the first request: the plans page reads "Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests", and the previous USD 5 no-card grant was dropped on...
no free tieridentity cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
fails: identitySanfengyun
why A mobile-number account plus real-name certification: the vendor page states '通过手机注册账号' (register an account by mobile phone) and '实名认证，实名认证需要花费0.3元钱' (real-name certification costs CNY 0.3), quoted in evidence row 1.
free tieridentity national-idno cardphoneevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySparkCloud
why No card and no hold; membership of a youth programme instead.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityStartup India Seed
why The applicant must be 'A startup, recognized by DPIIT, incorporated not more than 2 years ago at the time of application', and DPIIT recognition requires an Indian incorporated entity, so a person with no Indian...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityStartup SG Tech
why The applicant must be 'Registered in Singapore within the past 10 years', must have 'at least 30% local equity held directly or indirectly by Singaporean(s) and/or Singapore PR(s)', and must carry out 'Core R&D...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityStarverseAI student support
why Institution, in the form of student status: the grant needs an .edu email address or a CHSI verification code, or an uploaded student card, reviewed within 30 minutes, and the anti-abuse check is face recognition...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identitystudent voucher
why Verification requires full-time enrolment at a mainland Chinese higher-education institution, checked against the national student register , on an account that has already passed Alipay real-name certification.
free tieridentity institutionno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySURF
why Eligibility is a tenured or tenure-track appointment at a Dutch university, university of applied sciences, university medical centre, KNAW or NWO institute, and a temporary appointment qualifies only if the employer...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identitySwiss AI Initiative
why Swiss research-institution employment at 50% FTE for the project's whole duration plus a co-signing Swiss PI is a condition no outsider can meet, and the application is a signed 2-page PDF.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityTechnology Innovation Agency
why The fund does not take direct applications from individuals: awards run through 'University TTO/Research Councils' and 'Incubators/SMME Partners', so an applicant needs a host institution or an accredited incubator...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityTencent Cloud International
why TWO GATES, and only the second one costs a document.
free tieridentity national-idno cardphonelimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
fails: identityThunder Compute
why A university email from a US institution; the page states only students enrolled at US universities qualify
no free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityTimeweb Cloud grant
why The door is Russian tax residency plus a registered or : a private individual cannot apply at all, and the grant excludes GPU servers, so the largest single number in the Russian market buys no GPU time even for a...
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
fails: identityVK Cloud
why The bonus is conditioned on the account being registered from an IP address in Russia and on a corporate-domain email address being confirmed, so the individual RUB 5,000 lane is closed to a registrant outside Russia...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityVNG Cloud
why A registered business with its own email domain: the trial policy admits only "Doanh Nghi p" (businesses) that have never used the platform and requires the customer to supply full business details and a corporate...
free tieridentity institutionno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityVolcengine (火山引擎)
why National ID required: a mainland-China mobile number plus an identity card (身份证), verified as 实名认证.
identity national-idno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: identityXuhui District AI
why No card, hold, debit or prepaid statement appears: unknown.
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityAethir
why Access runs through the Cloud Customer Application Form plus prepaid ATH, so there is no self-service signup, and a real-name KYC check is a second gate that attaches to moving funds rather than to the form: 'KYC is...
no free tieridentity national-idcard?limit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityAlibaba Cloud, Tencent
why Registration plus real-name verification before any trial: Baidu's campaign rules require "users who register and complete real-name verification" and its 180-day event requires verification within a week of...
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityBaidu AI Studio
why The weekly cap of 48 hours at bronze level binds before the daily allowance: 8 hours a day is 56 hours a week, which the weekly cap refuses
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence reportedstale since 2026-10-25
fails: identityChamaoyun
why Three gates stated in the offer post: 18-25 (age 18 to 25), (overseas access blocked), and (a domain with a mainland ICP filing is required, and IP plus port access is not supported).
no free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityGratisVPS
why No card, but a phone wall: the site claims "No card, no trial that expires into a bill", while users report an SMS verification step after the VPS is created, one of them producing a machine but never a password, and...
no free tieridentity any-phoneno cardevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityHoRain Cloud
why National-id: real-name verification 'is a basic requirement for using all of our services'; for an individual it requires a mainland Chinese resident aged 18 or over, holding a valid resident identity card, with true...
identity national-idcard?limit per-ip-shapingevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityHosting-VDS.com
why A Russian mobile number for phone verification, demanded after registration and payment have completed and not disclosed at signup: the LowEndTalk report states registration and payment completed normally, then phone...
no free tieridentity country-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityHuawei Cloud ModelArts
why The one-hour default session and the 72-hour unused-resource release bind first: after 72 hours idle the instance is released and the files in it are lost
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18
fails: identityK-Cloud
why A company selected into a Korean government programme, not an individual signup: capacity goes to 'selected demand companies', and the one documented route to hardware is '4x ATOM+ cards through one of these paths...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityMikrus FROG, FROG (free)
why Two gates. First, the offer is limited to Poland: the live origin served a block page reading 'The FROG service is intended for Polish users only.
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-08
fails: identityModelScope Notebook
why National-id: the notebook requires authorising and linking an Alibaba Cloud account, and 'an Alibaba Cloud account requires real-name verification', quoted from a third-party guide rather than a vendor page.
free tieridentity national-idcard?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-18
fails: identityNVIDIA DSX Air
why Institution, in the form of a business mailbox: the account-setup page states a business email address is required and that personal addresses such as gmail.com are not accepted, and the trial must be started by an...
free tieridentity institutioncard?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identitySimpFun
why An invitation code plus a CNY 1 verification fee before the first server: the vendor page states 'from SFE4.0 a CNY 1 verification fee is required before opening a server, to prevent abuse', a third-party guide...
free tieridentity national-idno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale since 2026-10-29
fails: identityWebdock /
why The grant is for a project or a non-profit with an application, so the applicant must bring an organisation and a written case; a private individual with no project has no route in.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: identityBNDES Garagem
why The programme selects impact businesses operating against Brazilian economic, social and environmental challenges, so the applicant is an organisation with a Brazilian operation rather than a person; the specific...
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence inferredstale on 2026-11-22
fails: identityModelScope Studio
why A Chinese phone number is required on modelscope.cn; modelscope.ai is the international site
free tieridentity country-phoneno cardevidence unverifiedstale on 2026-11-18

fails: quota 21

fails: quotaalwaysdata
why The free plan's footnote forbids running services, so a daemon or a listener is out of scope regardless of the 256 MB of RAM.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaAmazon EC2 Spot
why GPU Spot quota defaults to 0 vCPU and the Free plan blocks the request, so the two gates must both be opened, and opening either one requires an upgraded paid plan.
free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaAWS Academy
why An institution must join the programme and an enrolled educator must run the course before a student sees anything, and what the student then sees is course material and a Skill Builder subscription rather than compute.
free tieridentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaAWS Educate (Compute)
why Nothing binds because nothing is provisioned: the EC2 and S3 exercises run in a simulated console, so there is no quota to exhaust, no egress to meter and no wall clock that ends with a resource to lose.
free tieridentity emailno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaBinder (mybinder.org), public mybinder.org
why One CPU-hour is reached in an hour of real work, and there is no disk to keep the result on
free tieridentity anonymousno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaCoCalc, Free (trial project)
why No outbound network means no pip, no git clone and no API call, which ends most work before any quota is reached
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaCodesphere
why 5 commits a month is the published ceiling and there is no published compute allowance to spend it on, so a workspace that needs a sixth deploy waits for the next cycle.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit pull-countevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaCT8.PL
why The account cannot be created at all: the registration page returns a capacity refusal rather than a form
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaDataCamp DataLab
why Three workbooks is the whole free allowance; there is no published hour budget to plan against
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaGoogle Colab (paid tiers)USD 19.91/month
why The compute-unit allowance binds and the policies behind it are unpublished, so there is no ceiling to schedule against
identity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04disagrees
fails: quotaHOKAS
why The machine does not survive unattended: its lifetime is measured in 12 or 24 hour blocks that a link or advertising flow has to renew, so a tab closed for a day ends the machine.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaHostBrr (Value 16GB)USD 11/month
why The row fails before a quota matters: there is no Windows option to buy, the order page does not configure the plan, and no public IPv4 is stated.
no free tieridentity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-26disagrees
fails: quotaiExec
why The faucet pays 5 RLC per claim with a 24-hour cooldown and a wallet balance check capped at 1 RLC, and the tokens buy only Arbitrum Sepolia executions, so no production job can run on the free lane.
free tieridentity emailno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaJetBrains Student Pack (Compute)
why No compute is involved, so no technical quota binds; the only bound is that the full pack needs enrollment proof while the one-IDE routes need nothing and give less.
free tieridentity institutionno cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
fails: quotaObservable (Free)
why The free allowance is zero minutes, so the first job fails immediately
identity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaOnWorks
why Five minutes of no input ends the session, which is the shortest idle reap found and rules out anything unattended.
free tieridentity anonymousno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotaPythonAnywhere
why 100 CPU seconds a day is the first wall; a single build or a pandas import can spend it.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24
fails: quotawap.ac (WAPAC)USD 1/month
why 500 GB counted in both directions is the tightest traffic term of any row, so a busy WireGuard endpoint or a package mirror would hit it first; the port budget of 20 is generous by comparison.
no free tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-24disagrees
fails: quotaIntel Developer Cloud
why Reserving an instance requires the Premium or Enterprise service tier, so the free lane stops before a machine is allocated.
no free tieridentity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: quotaRitual
why The faucet needs an access code and the token cannot be bridged; no mainnet token or mainnet credit programme has been announced, so real capacity is not purchasable by anyone yet.
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-06
fails: quotaKling AI
why If the 66-a-day allowance exists it is capped by resolution and watermark rather than by volume: the free tier is reported at 360p to 540p with a forced watermark and no commercial rights, so two clips a day at 30...
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence unverifiedstale on 2026-11-06

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deadPlayHT / PlayAI
why These were inference credits, not general compute, and they are no longer purchasable.
identity anonymousno cardevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
deadAdaptable
why Cloudflare error 530 means the origin DNS entry is missing or the origin refused; it is not a challenge page
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadAI Grant
why A REFUTATION of the best-known name in this class, and the reason it matters is that AI Grant is the programme a search for 'no strings attached grant for open source AI' surfaces first.
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadAmazon Q Developer
why Registration is closed: starting May 15, 2026, new Q Developer Free Tier account creation through Builder ID in the IDE plugins and new Q Developer subscription creation are blocked.
identity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-11-04
deadAmazon SageMaker Studio
why No GPU class, hours or RAM are recorded because no new account can measure them and the page no longer states them.
identity emailno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadAsiaVM (PT Media Creative Technology)USD 1/month
why The best specification of any out-of-stock row: USD 1.00 a month on annual prepay for 1 GB RAM, 15 GB NVMe, 2 TB of traffic, a 1 Gbps port, 20 forwarded records and a dedicated /112, on Hetzner infrastructure in Germany.
identity cardphonelimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadBERO HOST, Anniversary XS (IPv6-only)
why The best numbers - EUR 0.90 a month for 1 GB and 25 TB, annual - and the row is dead on the vendor's own page.
identity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadCinfu (Closco Ltd)
why The prices also disagree between the marketing page (USD 1.11 to 11.18) and the store category (EUR 2.99 to 5.99 on monthly), which is a second signal that the page is stale.
identity emailno cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadCirrus CI
why Duplicate of ci-cd-runners/cirrus-ci.
identity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-11-03duplicate
deadCirrus Runners
none: Cirrus Runners is a subscription of $150 a month per runner with no limit on minutes, and it no longer accepts new customers
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-11-03
deadClawCloud
why The notice names VPS, VDS and related hosting.
identity institutionno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadCloudCone (black friday)
why A fossil with no cart at all. /black-friday/ is a 2021 buyer's guide, and the two destinations it promotes - the hourly deals page at app.cloudcone.com/blackfriday and the welcome page at hello.cloudcone.com - are a...
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadColoCrossing (cyber monday)
why The strongest fossil, because the product slugs still carry the year: the $12.00 yearly VPS is served from '1gb-black-friday-vps-2024'.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadContabo (black friday)
why A placeholder, not a fossil: it advertises a future event rather than an old one.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadCyclic
why The pair is the finding: a shutdown post and a live sales page on the same domain, two years apart.
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadDediRock (black friday)
why Nine order links on the page, all followed.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadDediRock (cyber monday)
why The Cyber Monday twin of the Black Friday page, one dollar cheaper per tier, and in worse condition: all six VPS carts and all three storage carts return Out of Stock, with none repointing.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadDeGirum AI Hub
why The docs still serve the plan table while the homepage says the service is discontinued, so a reader who lands on docs.degirum.com would record a live free tier.
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadDeta Space
why A 530 is an origin failure, not a rate limit
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadDigitalOcean Hatch
why Old directories still describe Hatch criteria, including the old partner-affiliation requirement, which contradicts the live successor page.
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadDigitalOcean student credit
why The DigitalOcean offer page now redirects to the homepage and a new account gets USD 5 for 90 days, which is the trial that replaced USD 200.
identity institutionno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deaddimension.sh
why The directory page at tilde.team/wiki/other-tildes was read and still carries a 'signup form' link for dimension.sh, protocol.club is marked 'closed' in the same table, and goober.cloud sits behind an Anubis...
identity anonymous?card?evidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadElypseCloud
why The advertised shape (4 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, 2 vCPU, France) is the largest free offer found anywhere in this search, and the store refuses it: 'Rupture de stock', with the item suspended until new stock arrives.
identity emailcard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadEsperanto Technologies
why Nothing binds because no capacity is sold or given: there is no operator of the hardware left to rent it from.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadFast Grants
why Brief lists Fast Grants among programmes worth checking, and the check produced a refutation: it was a COVID-19 bioscience fund behind an academic-institution gate, so it was never reachable by a user and never...
identity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadFirebase Studio
why This is the most commonly recommended free cloud IDE that no longer accepts users, and listicles written before June 2026 still describe three free Nix-based workspaces.
identity emailcard?evidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadFlapjacksUSD 0.25/month
why The best price-per-megabyte found and it cannot be bought: USD 2.99 a year is USD 0.2492 a month for 512 MB, 10 GB SSD, a /64 and 500 GB a month, which beats CrockyHost's 1 GB at EUR 7.99 a year on a per-GB basis.
identity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadFosshost
why The generalisable lesson is the failure mode, not the provider: a free VPS programme run by a volunteer nonprofit with one person holding the bank account died within months, and about 250 projects had to migrate.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadFreeVPSTrial.net
why This is the false-information case the operator described, recorded rather than repeated.
identity any-phonecard?limit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadGabia VPS hosting
why The notice is dated 2024 and no reopening was found; a reopening announcement would supersede this record, and the two replacement products are separate findings.
identity cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadGlitch
why The blog is the cheapest liveness check for this host: one read settles it
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadh3llo.cloud year-free package
why Two contradictions a reader should know: the launch article says the activation money is not refundable while rule 3.3 provides a refund minus consumption, and the article says the managed database is 2 vCPU / 4 GiB...
identity country-phonecard?evidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadHost Hong Kong
why The page describes exactly the product is hunting: 256 MB, 21 forwarded ports, a native /64, explicitly IPv6-native, aimed at a VPN or tunnel.
identity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadHuawei Cloud International
why A refutation, and a useful one, because three separate Huawei surfaces still advertise this: the students page, the Brazil region page, and a support FAQ last updated in 2022.
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadiHostART (MAN HOSTING GMB H S.R.L.)
why This is the row the entity check exists for, and it is the most useful finding even though the product cannot be bought.
identity cardphonelimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadIncudal (黃帝云VPS)USD 0.1871/month
why Incudal sold some of the cheapest NAT containers in the market - the France entry plan was CNY 1.25 a month, which at the CBR rate dated 24.10.2026 is USD 0.1871 a month for 266 MB, 2 GB, 300 GB and a NAT IPv4 - and...
identity emailno cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadLightning AI
why The offer is real on the pricing page and the platform is not.
identity any-phoneno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-31
deadmini.biz.id
why The pattern is worth noting because it recurred twice: an Indonesian free-VPS hobby project with a real spec sheet that has since lapsed.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadMozilla Builders Accelerator
why The search that would distinguish them returned only the 2024 blog post and aggregator pages that repeat the 2024 dates, and the Foundation's own programme is a different legal entity with its own page, which...
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadMrVM
why The EUR 0.50 figure is not necessarily false, only unsupported today: the legacy client portal at clients.mrvm.net is still linked, so existing customers may still be served.
identity emailno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadNarwhal Cloud (独角鲸云, fuckip.me)
why A seller that a Chinese-language search surfaces immediately and that a buyer cannot price.
identity emailno cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadNoteable
why No acquisition notice was found; the domain listing is the evidence.
identity emailno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadNVIDIA LaunchPad
why This is the refutation exists to record: the largest published number in the accelerator-programme market, USD 20,000 of cloud-equivalent capacity, belonged to a programme NVIDIA has closed.
identity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadOna Cloud
why A workspace product bought by a model lab and closed is the clearest death shape: the notice is first-party, the date is printed, and the reason is an acquisition rather than a cost problem.
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadPlay with Docker
why The deprecation notice is on the playground host, not on docs.docker.com, and the Markdown rendering of the playground page drops it: the page still returns 200 with the playground description.
identity anonymousno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadPQ.Hosting
why The domain is alive and the vendor function is gone.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadPRACE
why The answer is that the successor is not a separate brand: it is the EuroHPC JU, which absorbed PRACE's peer-review process at the end of 2022.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadPredibase
why A reader following an aggregator link now lands on an agent-governance page with a 'Get a demo' button and no price.
identity institutionno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadPrime Intellect
why REFUTATION of a widely recirculated grant.
identity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadQuansight
why The free GPU CI lane is not a category with several providers in it; it was one sponsored OpenStack host for one package ecosystem, gated on being a conda-forge maintainer, and it is decommissioned.
identity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadQuarto Pub
why Quarto Pub was a publishing target, not a compute host, so it never had hours to give.
identity emailno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadRackNerd (black friday 2025)
why The store still renders the 2025 Black Friday prices, which makes it look buyable, and it is not: every VPS and dedicated line carries '0 Available' and the pids return Out of Stock.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadRun Cloud
why The product is withdrawn.
identity cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadScaleway (black friday)
why A clean, honest fossil: the page keeps its FAQ so it ranks for the query, and the first line says there are no deals.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadSourcegraph Cody
why This is the free tier that comparison pages still list.
identity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadSparkleHosting
why A successor on a different TLD was not searched for.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadStrapi Cloud (Compute)
why Storage/strapi-cloud also records Strapi Cloud as trial-only; Starter is a paid plan and not free.
identity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-11-03
deadthe.hosting
why Two pages on the same site disagree and both return 200, which is the finding.
identity national-idcard?limit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadtilde.team
why The binding constraint is availability, not a quota: SSH is disabled as of the August 2026 news post.
identity emailno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadTopCloud.vnUSD 0.58/month
why A first-term discount priced honestly and a stock state stated in the heading, which is better behaviour than most rows, but the plan cannot be bought: the page heading reads 'Tạm hết máy' (temporarily out of stock).
identity cardlimit per-ip-shapingevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24
deadUntether AI
why The products were not spun out to another owner: the notice says they will not be supplied or supported.
identity anonymousno cardevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
deadVirMach (black friday cyber monday)
why The page is live and specific - it names eight dated candles, each USD 18.88 for two years - but none of the four order links reaches a Candle product.
identity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-24disagrees
deadYandex Cloud
why A refutation that matters because the stale search index still sells the grant: the snippet advertises RUB 4,000 for residents, KZT 20,000 for Kazakhstan and USD 30 for non-residents, while the live docs issue none...
identity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
dead4vps.su
why A reader who wants to overturn it needs one delivered server from this provider, which nobody produced.
identity card?card?evidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadAlaVPS
why REFUTED 2026-10-24. One does exist now, in quantity, and it is unanimous: the order is accepted at USD 0.00 and never fulfilled.
identity emailno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-24
deadBuildJet
why The runner product is shut down.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadcloudrouter (Manaflow)
why The domain now belongs to a different company and product.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadComputer Use Cloud (computeruse.run)
why The deployment is gone, not just the page: the Vercel error names DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND, so the project itself has been removed.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadDigitalOcean (2)
why Clarified 2026-10-22: this record is the withdrawn student credit and stays dead.
identity institutionno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedchecked 2026-11-03disagrees
deadDigitalOcean Open Source
A programme that granted recurring infrastructure credits to open-source projects was ended without a first-party announcement.
identity institutionno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadFlowDeploy
why The domain has lapsed to a parking service.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadHosted inference APIs (as a compute class)
Grouped row: an inference API answers tokens and is not a machine you can leave running
identity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadHyrex
why The deployment is paused at the platform level, which is what a Vercel account in arrears returns.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadJamsocket
why Jamsocket joined Modal.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadKubeSail (Compute)
why The hosted platform is closed.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadLepton AI
why The rung is reported, not documented, because the vendor page no longer serves a sentence to quote and the archive holds a 503 rather than content.
identity anonymousno cardevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadMistral Compute / AI Cloud
why The product page is gone.
identity email?card?limit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-22
deadVPSWala
why STILL TRUE, AND WORSE 2026-10-24.
identity institutionno cardphonelimit write-gatedevidence reportedchecked 2026-10-24

Self-hosted, the last resort 6

Software or a node that the user installs, runs and maintains. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.

self-hosted, last resortGensyn
why The direction is inverted: Gensyn pays suppliers who bring hardware, so it consumes the one thing a user does not have.
verdict fails-quotafree tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
self-hosted, last resortjoule
why Access requires proving donated GPU contribution first, so the binding constraint is hardware a user does not have.
verdict fails-quotafree tieridentity anonymousno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
self-hosted, last resortBrowser Linux emulators
why Not remote compute: the cycles are the reader's own and the state dies with the tab.
verdict deadidentity anonymousno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
self-hosted, last resortContinue
why The acquisition date is not on the page.
verdict deadidentity institutionno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
self-hosted, last resortCua
why Dead as a compute provider and alive as a framework.
verdict deadidentity emailno cardlimit retention-clampedevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
self-hosted, last resortCua (Cua Spaces)
why Corrected on 2026-10-26.
verdict deadidentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-26