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Intel staff state the Standard tier has no free instances since the migration to the Intel Developer Cloud console, and instances are reservable only on Premium and Enterprise; free access that remains is limited to JupyterHub batch-processing training notebooks.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://console.cloud.intel.com/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://console.cloud.intel.com/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://console.cloud.intel.com/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://console.cloud.intel.com/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"nothing composes here: the free lane is a JupyterHub training notebook, not a reservable machine.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"reserving an instance requires the Premium or Enterprise service tier, so the free lane stops before a machine is allocated.","source":"https://console.cloud.intel.com/"}],"limits_note":"reserving an instance requires the Premium or Enterprise service tier, so the free lane stops before a machine is allocated.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"reserving an instance requires the Premium or Enterprise service tier, so the free lane stops before a machine is allocated.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the absence of free instances, the account tier that blocks a reservation, and the decommissioning of the service, and names no email, phone, card, ID document or institution — the gate it does establish is a paid service tier, not an identity check","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Tiber-Developer-Cloud/Standard-tier-Intel-dev-cloud-is-free/m-p/1612670","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Intel support reply, quoted: 'there are currently no free instances available for the Standard tier'; JupyterHub batch instances are accessible without payment"},{"url":"https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Tiber-Developer-Cloud/Insufficient-cloud-credits/td-p/1550099","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'you cannot reserve any instance if you are in a Standard account. The instance is only available for Premium and Enterprise only'"},{"url":"https://community.intel.com/t/unacceptable-response-for-my-pull-request-and-issue/137190/4","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Intel reply that the Developer Cloud 'has been formally discontinued, and the infrastructure fully decommissioned' with customer data sanitised and unrecoverable"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Recorded separately from the oneAPI sandbox because they are different products with different answers, and the corpus would mislead a reader if it merged them. The console documentation page (console.cloud.intel.com/docs/tutorials/plans.html) returned broker 530 twice, so the vendor-side planning page could not be read; the community replies are the evidence. This is a refutation of the 'Intel gives free Gaudi time' belief.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"refutation","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"Intel Gaudi 2","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"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.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":[]}