{"rid":"compute/jetstream2","card":{"rid":"compute/jetstream2","eid":"jetstream-cloud","topic":"compute","slug":"jetstream2","provider":"Jetstream2","url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","domain":"jetstream-cloud.org","category":"GPU cloud","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"write-gated","identity_kind":"institution","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":1,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"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":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Jetstream2 prices every instance in ACCESS service units at 1 SU per vCPU per hour on CPU flavours and 2 SU per vCPU per hour on GPU and Large Memory flavour...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":13},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"jetstream2","provider":"Jetstream2","url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"Jetstream2 prices every instance in ACCESS service units at 1 SU per vCPU per hour on CPU flavours and 2 SU per vCPU per hour on GPU and Large Memory flavours. A full A100 card flavour (g3.xl, 32 vCPU, 120 GB RAM, 40 GB GPU RAM) costs 64 SU per hour; a half-card (g3.large, 16 vCPU, 20 GB GPU RAM) costs 32 SU per hour; a quarter-card (g3.medium, 8 vCPU, 10 GB GPU RAM) costs 16 SU per hour. The smallest ACCESS tier, Explore, carries 400,000 credits, so 400,000 / 64 = 6,250 hours of a full A100 card, 12,500 hours of a half card, or 400,000 vCPU-hours on CPU flavours.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"credit-converted-allocation"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"This is the conversion the ACCESS record lacked: an Explore allocation is not 400,000 abstract credits but 6,250 A100-hours or 400,000 vCPU-hours, which turns the ACCESS tier from a benchmark allowance into roughly a year of a single always-on A100 at 16 hours a day. It composes badly with the free GPU vendors, because the same workload that fits a 40 GB card on Jetstream2 fits a 16 GB T4 elsewhere only after splitting.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":null,"source":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/"}],"limits_note":null,"binding":"write-gated","binding_note":null,"identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/access/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"1 ACCESS Credit = 1 Jetstream2 SU\"; SU consumption is \"1 SU per vCPU_core-hour\" on CPU and \"2 SUs per vCPU_core-hour\" on Jetstream2-GPU and Large Memory, quoted"},{"url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"g3.xl is 32 vCPU, 120 GB RAM, NVIDIA A100 with 40 GB GPU RAM at 64 SU per hour; g3.large is 16 vCPU, 20 GB GPU RAM at 32 SU per hour; g3.medium is 8 vCPU, 10 GB GPU RAM at 16 SU per hour, quoted from the flavour tables"},{"url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/faq/alloc/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"To use Jetstream2, your account must belong to an ACCESS allocation that is active on a Jetstream2 resource\", quoted"},{"url":"https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/general/vmsizes/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"\"The three instance types are all separate ACCESS resources ... Having access to one does NOT include access to all\", quoted"},{"url":"https://allocations.access-ci.org/project-types","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Explore ACCESS credit limit is 400,000, accepted anytime, quoted"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"This finding changes dossier/compute/access.json: that record states the 400,000 credit limit but does not convert it, so a reader cannot tell whether Explore buys an afternoon or a year. The division is shown above and uses only rates from the two vendor pages. The cheapest paid shape is not applicable: Jetstream2 sells nothing for cash, and the credits are not purchasable, so the alternative to the institutional gate is not money. Note that stopped instances are still charged 75 percent and shelved instances are charged nothing, which changes the effective hours for an interactive workload. No account was created, so the rung is documented rather than measured.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"academic-cloud","free_tier_kind":"credit-converted-allocation","shape":{"vcpu":32,"ram_gib":120,"gpu_class":"NVIDIA A100 40 GB","gpu_count":1}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":120,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.binding_note","withheld"],["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.limits[0].value","withheld"],["$.limits_note","withheld"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}