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Requests of 5,000 GPU hours or fewer, with 50 GPUs or fewer, and with no subsidy sought, skip the PMEC committee and are approved by an institutional verifier or a MeitY Startup Hub CoE.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"recurring-subsidy"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"The 40% is a discount on an empanelled provider's list price, so it composes with the provider's own trial rather than replacing it: the same GPU appears at E2E Networks, NxtGen and Yotta, and the client can price the undiscounted lane directly with those vendors while the subsidy is unavailable.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"Registration requires an 'institute / organization email address' plus either an APAAR ID with faculty endorsement or a DPIIT recognition certificate with a Certificate of Incorporation, so a person with no Indian academic account and no registered company cannot complete step one.","source":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf"}],"limits_note":"Registration requires an 'institute / organization email address' plus either an APAAR ID with faculty endorsement or a DPIIT recognition certificate with a Certificate of Incorporation, so a person with no Indian academic account and no registered company cannot complete step one.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"Registration requires an 'institute / organization email address' plus either an APAAR ID with faculty endorsement or a DPIIT recognition certificate with a Certificate of Incorporation, so a person with no Indian academic account and no registered company cannot complete step one.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"institution: registration needs 'their name, institute / organization email address and mobile number', so a mobile number is collected alongside an institutional email. The student path adds 'Apaar ID' plus 'Endorsement by appointed academic faculty verifier and endorser or IndiaAI CEO'; the startup paths require 'Valid DPIIT startup recognition certificate along with DPIIT ID' and 'Certificate of Incorporation'. No card, hold, debit or prepaid statement appears in any evidence row: unknown.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'A subsidy maximum up to 40% will be provided to the eligible end users which will be borne by IndiaAI mission', quoted from section 5.2"},{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'To access the IndiaAI compute platform users would be required to register on the IndiaAI compute portal with their name, institute / organization email address and mobile number', quoted from 4.1"},{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'This category applies to startups & MSMEs who are DPIIT registered and have either generated revenue or raised funds', requiring 'Valid DPIIT startup recognition certificate along with DPIIT ID' and 'Certificate of Incorporation', quoted from 3.4"},{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"student path requires 'Apaar ID' plus 'Endorsement by appointed academic faculty verifier and endorser or IndiaAI CEO', quoted from 3.3"},{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/files/end-user-policy.pdf","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'This category applies to pre-revenue / funding startups' gated on 'Founder(s) / permanent staff with experience of 4 years' and 'Endorsement by CEO IndiaAI / JS rank officer and above', quoted from 3.6"},{"url":"https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2245063&lang=2&reg=48","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'38,231 GPUs have been onboarded from 14 empaneled service providers'; 'The average rate is approximately Rs 65 per GPU per hour, except for select high-end GPUs', quoted, Press Information Bureau"},{"url":"https://compute.indiaai.gov.in/endusers","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"published counter reads 'Total Subsidy Allocated: INR 11,89,44,82,338', read from the portal page"},{"url":"https://indiaai.gov.in/hub/indiaai-compute-capacity","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"allocation ledger row 13: Sarvam AI Axonwise Pvt Ltd, 4096 H100 SXM via Yotta, subsidy INR 98,68,62,256.12 on a bill of materials of INR 2,46,71,55,640.32, project 2025-06-01 to 2025-12-01, read from the table"},{"url":"https://indiaai.gov.in/hub/indiaai-compute-capacity","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"ledger rows show the subsidy equals 40.0% of the bill of materials: Keenheads 44,656 on 111,640; CloudMojo 352,848 on 882,120; Sarvam 98,68,62,256 on 2,46,71,55,640, derived by division from the published table"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Three candidate readings of the gate were tested. (a) Indian nationality is required: the policy never states a nationality test, so refuted. (b) A company is required: refuted for the 3.6 early-stage-startup path, which names only four years of founder experience and an endorsement, no incorporation document. (c) An Indian institutional email is required: confirmed at 4.1, and it is what actually stops the client, because APAAR IDs are issued by Indian institutions and the CoE endorsement chain runs through MeitY. Section 3.6 is therefore the only lane that a foreign individual might argue into, and it is decided by a discretionary endorsement rather than a document, so the verdict stays fails-identity and the open question is whether IndiaAI accepts a non-Indian organisation email at registration.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"government-credit","free_tier_kind":"recurring-subsidy","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"A100 40GB, A100 80GB, H100 SXM, H100 NVL, H200 SXM, L40S, L4","gpu_count":50}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":5000,"unit":"GPU hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.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"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.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":[]}