{"rid":"compute/cloud-ru-evolution","card":{"rid":"compute/cloud-ru-evolution","eid":"cloud","topic":"compute","slug":"cloud-ru-evolution","provider":"Cloud.ru Evolution","url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","domain":"cloud.ru","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","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":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"RUB 4,000 starter grant credited when the first bank card is attached, valid 60 days, with GPU compute, ML Inference, Foundation Models, GPU notebooks and Co...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"cloud-ru-evolution","provider":"Cloud.ru Evolution","url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"RUB 4,000 starter grant credited when the first bank card is attached, valid 60 days, with GPU compute, ML Inference, Foundation Models, GPU notebooks and Container Apps on the exclusion list.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-shot-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"RUB 4,000 at the ruble CPU ladder is a two-month CPU sandbox, and it composes with nothing GPU-shaped because the grant excludes every GPU SKU.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"The grant lands only on a card never previously attached to any Cloud.ru account, expires in 60 days, and excludes every GPU and ML service, so it buys CPU time only.","source":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant"}],"limits_note":"The grant lands only on a card never previously attached to any Cloud.ru account, expires in 60 days, and excludes every GPU and ML service, so it buys CPU time only.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"The grant lands only on a card never previously attached to any Cloud.ru account, expires in 60 days, and excludes every GPU and ML service, so it buys CPU time only.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"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 available without the grant'. No authorisation or hold amount is stated, and whether debit or prepaid is accepted is not stated: unknown. The record's notes add a second gate the evidence rows do not carry: the campaign rules approved 2026-06-30 require the account to be registered in the Russian Federation.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloud.ru/docs/billing/ug/topics/concepts__start_grant","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the starter grant page states, in Russian, that the Test Evolution starter grant has a face value of 4,000 bonuses, that the bonuses are available for 60 days after they are credited, that the grant is credited for the first bank card attached and only for a card never previously attached to any Cloud.ru account, and that the exclusions include Evolution Compute with GPUs, Evolution ML Inference and Foundation Models"},{"url":"https://habr.com/ru/articles/987984/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the page also states that a user who does not receive the grant on those conditions can sign in through Sber ID or T-ID to check eligibility, and that paid consumption is available without the grant"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The Russian free lane is thin and shrinking: Yandex withdrew its grant, Selectel states in its own FAQ that cloud servers have no free test, Timeweb Cloud has no fixed-length trial, and cloud.ru's RUB 4,000 is the largest general-purpose entry found. VK Cloud's RUB 2,000,000 startup grant needs a legal entity and is a discount schedule rather than credit. Corrected 2026-10-22: the campaign rules approved on 2026-06-30 require the account to be registered in the Russian Federation, and the 2 vCPU / 4 GiB free VM is closed to accounts registered after 2026-06-30. What survives is 25 vCPU-hours a month of Container Apps and the object-storage egress allowance.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-credit","free_tier_kind":"one-shot-credit","shape":null,"verdict_change":"trial-only -> fails-identity on 2026-10-22"}}},"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:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[{"hid":"history/2026-10-22T162000Z/compute-cloud-ru-closed-to-new-registration.md","when":"2026-10-22T16:20:00Z","status":"corrected","title":"Cloud.ru's free VM stopped accepting registrations on 2026-06-30"}],"drift":[]}