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The record does not state which document that verification accepts — a Chinese national ID or a passport — whether a card or phone is also needed on either account, any hold, or debit or prepaid acceptance","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.3520.net/free-cargo/18257.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted from the official Notebook doc: 36 per new user after binding an Alibaba Cloud account; CPU 8 cores / 32 GB free long term; 100 GB storage; single instance at most 10 hours; auto-stop after 1 idle hour; the author corrects the widely repeated '100 hours at signup' figure as stale"},{"url":"https://lanmao.ai/zh/o/modelscope-notebook-free-gpu/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted, checked 2026-10-02: 36 hours is a one-time new-user GPU grant; binding an Alibaba Cloud account is required and that account requires real-name verification"},{"url":"https://tianchi.aliyun.com/forum/post/570847","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Alibaba's own Tianchi forum post states the free instance is 36 hours of single-card A10 compute"},{"url":"https://modelscope.cn/docs/notebook/intro","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"official doc page returned 422 no-content from the reader and the 2026-08-03 Wayback capture replayed empty; the figure rests on three sources quoting the doc, not on the doc itself"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The official page could not be read directly: the reader returned 'no content' and the Wayback replay of the 2026-08-03 capture was empty, so this row is `reported` on three independent quotations rather than `documented`. The headline number in circulation has changed and the direction is downward: guides say 100 hours, the doc says 36, and one author explicitly corrects the older figure. Two adjacent lanes are separate products and are not added to this row: free xGPU on (shared GPU for Spaces, requires joining an xGPU-Explorers organisation, approval-gated, with per-user duration caps), and the AMD GPU incentive programme (up to 1000 hours, requires an AMD developer account plus publishing activity).","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"recurring-notebook-quota","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":8,"ram_gib":32,"gpu_class":"A10 24GB","gpu_count":1}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":36,"unit":"GPU hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":10,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}