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No evidence row names a phone, a card, an email or an ID document, so the stored any-phone kind is unsupported by this record's own evidence.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://linux.do/t/topic/2902157","date":"2026-09-14","proved":"the post, translated: 'earlier Cloud Studio had a bug and I got 2,000-plus machine-hours free, I do not know what to do with them'; the highest configuration available is described as an L40 GPU [re-read 2026-10-22: fetch exit 0, token overlap 0.21; the original capture stands]"},{"url":"https://linux.do/t/topic/2635751","date":"2026-07-22","proved":"the standing offer for comparison, translated: 50 machine-hours on registration and 2 a day for checking in, with replies reporting only 20 [re-read 2026-10-22: fetch exit 0, token overlap 0.0; the original capture stands]"},{"url":"https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted, translated from the vendor's machine-hour FAQ: 'first binding grant: after binding a Tencent Cloud account, a 20 machine-hour resource pack is granted' and 'daily login: after logging in each day, 2 machine hours can be claimed from the profile card (valid for 7 days)'. A new account therefore starts with tens of hours and accumulates at 2 a day, which supports the trial-only verdict and the top of the stored 20-to-50-hour range; it does not support the 2,000-hour windfall, which stays a forum report and is not repeated by any vendor page"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Recorded to stop a future session chasing it: the number is real and the route is not. ⚠ A defect grant is not a free tier and must not be counted as one, which is why this is `trial-only` with the defect named in the offer. The useful signal is the trend it sits in: Tencent's standing grant fell by roughly two orders of magnitude between 2024 and 2026 while users kept finding temporary surplus.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"cloud-ide","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"L40","gpu_count":1,"vram_gib":48}}}},"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":2000,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.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":[]}