{"rid":"compute/alibaba-cloud-tencent","card":{"rid":"compute/alibaba-cloud-tencent","eid":"baidu","topic":"compute","slug":"alibaba-cloud-tencent","provider":"Alibaba Cloud, Tencent","url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","domain":"baidu.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"retention-clamped","identity_kind":"national-id","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":1,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-05","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Free trials of 7 to 30 days depending on vendor: Alibaba 7 days (14 on some products), Tencent 15 days, Huawei 30 days, Baidu 7 days with a 180-day campaign ...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"alibaba-cloud-tencent","provider":"Alibaba Cloud, Tencent","url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"Free trials of 7 to 30 days depending on vendor: Alibaba 7 days (14 on some products), Tencent 15 days, Huawei 30 days, Baidu 7 days with a 180-day campaign variant, JD 15 days. Baidu's rules page requires a real-name verified account: \"users who register and complete real-name verification\".","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"trial-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"Every one of the five gates the trial on real-name verification, which needs a national identity document, and every one ends within 30 days with no renewal path; the resource is auto-released at expiry.","days":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"Nothing that survives a month. The only durable Chinese free lane is the 180-day Baidu campaign, and it is annual and date-boxed rather than recurring.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"Every one of the five gates the trial on real-name verification, which needs a national identity document, and every one ends within 30 days with no renewal path; the resource is auto-released at expiry.","source":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html"}],"limits_note":"Every one of the five gates the trial on real-name verification, which needs a national identity document, and every one ends within 30 days with no renewal path; the resource is auto-released at expiry.","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"Every one of the five gates the trial on real-name verification, which needs a national identity document, and every one ends within 30 days with no renewal path; the resource is auto-released at expiry.","identity_cost":{"kind":"national-id","detail":"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 registration, and JD Cloud requires new-user status plus real-name verification; the comparison read adds Tencent requiring a corporate check or a personal credit score of at least 600 and Huawei requiring a bank card bound to the account. The record's own limits row reads that verification as needing a national identity document, which is why the kind is national-id; no evidence row quotes the document list, so whether a foreign passport can substitute is not stated. No hold amount is stated and debit or prepaid acceptance is not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloud.baidu.com/campaign/free/index.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"campaign rules require registration plus real-name verification, cap each user to one free claim per product class, and state that resources are released at expiry, quoted from the rules block"},{"url":"https://bce.baidu.com/event/clouday/index.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a 180-day trial event restricted to accounts registered on one day and real-name verified within a week, after which resources are cleaned up 7 to 30 days post-expiry"},{"url":"https://www.henghost.com/news/article/503871/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"comparison table of the five vendors giving 7 to 30 day trial lengths and naming the identity conditions, including Tencent requiring a corporate check or a personal credit score of at least 600, and Huawei requiring a bank card bound"},{"url":"https://github.com/vtukh186/jd-cloud-server-trial","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"JD Cloud trial is now 15 days rather than the 6 months older posts claim, and requires new-user status plus real-name verification"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"This is one consolidated finding rather than five because the decision is the same and the door is the same: national identity. Two corrections worth carrying: JD's free period shrank from 6 months to 15 days, and Tencent's corporate requirement blocks an individual without a company. The 180-day Baidu figure is the largest in the group and still fails on identity. An account with a Chinese national ID would find a real 2 vCPU class trial here.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"refutation-identity-gated","free_tier_kind":"trial-credit","shape":null}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}