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A month is 730 hours, so the allowance is 50 of them."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable"},"retention":{"stated":"Persistent storage is included with the server; a free slice that sits idle is warned and then reclaimed, and free slices are preemptible.","days":null,"source_url":"https://leaf.cloud/run"},"egress":{"terms":"Not stated for the free tier: the page publishes no egress allowance and no egress price, so nothing is known to be charged per gigabyte and nothing is promised free.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://leaf.cloud/run"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"SSH with root and Docker on a dedicated GPU slice; no console, API or CLI is documented for the free tier.","tooling":"an SSH client and Docker; the one-click images ship Open WebUI + Ollama, vLLM and JupyterLab + PyTorch.","chaining":"50 hours a month on a 24GB Blackwell slice is a fine-tuning and inference bench; because a free slice is preemptible and reclaimed when idle, a job that must survive reclamation needs its checkpoints written to a separate object-storage record.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"50 GPU hours a month, wall-clock metered while the slice is provisioned; usage past 50 hours is billed at EUR 0.49 per GPU hour","source":"https://leaf.cloud/run"}],"limits_note":"Free slices are preemptible with no SLA, and a slice that sits idle is warned and then reclaimed. One account per person; free hours do not stack or carry over between months.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"The 50-hour monthly allowance is what runs out first: it is 50 of the 730 hours in a month, and past it the meter runs at EUR 0.49 a GPU hour.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"The Run sign-up form asks for first name, last name, email and password; the free tier requires a EUR 0 card check or a 1-cent iDEAL verification from a non-disposable card, with no charge and no subscription. The general Leafcloud cloud signup is a separate flow that asks a EUR 2 downpayment and a EUR 200 GPU deposit, and the free-tier page does not say whether the free tier inherits it.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Free slices are preemptible with no SLA and an idle slice is warned then reclaimed; the vendor states it may end the freemium model at any time, and the tier is marked 'Coming Soon' with sign-up not yet available.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The quota, the 24GB slice, the overage price, the card check and the preemption terms are quoted from the vendor's free-tier page read on 2026-11-06; the 'Coming Soon' state is on the same page and the disabled sign-up is in the Run sign-up page's own text.","evidence":[{"url":"https://leaf.cloud/run","date":"2026-11-06","proved":"the free tier is 50 GPU hours a month, free, every month","capture":"sha256:76f8563d163ffca044ec96d12de652738cb812c509adbb8bf08969a419fcb5e7","quote":"50 GPU hours a month. 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If your slice sits idle we warn you, then reclaim it."},{"url":"https://leaf.cloud/run","date":"2026-11-06","proved":"one account per person, and free hours do not stack or carry over between months","capture":"sha256:76f8563d163ffca044ec96d12de652738cb812c509adbb8bf08969a419fcb5e7","quote":"Once you reach 50 hours, your instance pauses. Billing never starts without your explicit go-ahead. If you choose to continue, you pay €0.49 per GPU-hour beyond the free tier. Important: you get one account per person, and free hours don't stack or carry over between months."},{"url":"https://leaf.cloud/run","date":"2026-11-06","proved":"the freemium model is a pilot the vendor may end at any time","capture":"sha256:76f8563d163ffca044ec96d12de652738cb812c509adbb8bf08969a419fcb5e7","quote":"Our freemium model is a pilot, to test if it provides real value for our users. 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