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The domain now returns, quoted: 'This page doesn't exist - It may have been moved, removed, or never existed. 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FO...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"fast-grants","provider":"Fast Grants","url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"The programme is offline. The domain now returns, quoted: 'This page doesn't exist - It may have been moved, removed, or never existed. 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND', which is a Vercel deployment error rather than a page. The archived version from 2021 states the scope, quoted: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.' That sentence is also the reason the programme is out of lane: it funded COVID-19 bioscience at academic institutions, not compute.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-time-grant"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"Nil. Recording it stops the next reader from chasing a name that appears on lists of fast science funding and has never had a compute lane.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.","source":"https://www.fastgrants.org/"}],"limits_note":"the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.fastgrants.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'This page doesn't exist'; '404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND'; 'bom1::9l4zl-1792682528794-85ed34daf84f'; page 404 at origin"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210602095236id_/https://fastgrants.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the 2021 capture's own description: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.', and its body lists funded COVID-19 preprints and papers; capture 20210602095236 returned 200"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210602095236/https://fastgrants.org/?provider=wayback","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the archive lookup resolved exactly one capture at 121956 s from the requested 2021-06, which dates the page to June 2021 and shows no later capture in the queried window"},{"url":"https://fastgrants.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"measured: the live host returns HTTP 404 with body 'DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND' from Vercel, so the site no longer exists"},{"url":"https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/fast-grants/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"reported: 'Between the first and second rounds of funding, Fast Grants distributed over $40 million in grants before suspending the program'"},{"url":"https://www.uoguelph.ca/research/alerts/content/fast-funding-covid-19-science","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"reported by a university research office: 'Due to receipt of a very large number of qualified submissions, Fast Grant applications are currently closed'"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Recorded as dead rather than paid-only because the organisation is gone, not because it charges: the deployment is deleted and the last capture is from 2021. Brief lists Fast Grants among programmes worth checking, and the check produced a refutation: it was a COVID-19 bioscience fund behind an academic-institution gate, so it was never reachable by for a user and never bought a GPU hour. A recurrence under the same name would be a new finding, not a correction to this one.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"grant","free_tier_kind":"one-time-grant","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.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":[],"drift":[]}