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A forum report adds that public-suffix addresses such as QQ, Gmail and Outlook are rejected and that a domain mailbox was accepted at signup. No card, hold, phone number or ID document is stated in any evidence row: unknown. The page was read through the search index, not first-party.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://docs.nvidia.com/networking-ethernet-software/nvidia-air-v2/Account-Setup/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the search index of this page carries the trial table of 60 vCPU, 60 GiB, 10,000 compute hours, 1 year, and the sentence that personal email addresses such as gmail.com are not accepted; a direct broker read of the URL returned the Air user-guide shell instead of the account page, so the table itself was not read first-party"},{"url":"https://lewuxian.com/17288/","date":"2026-05-21","proved":"reported, translated: a domain mailbox is required and public-suffix addresses such as QQ, Gmail and Outlook are rejected; the machine needs re-arming every 3 days; 10,000 hours is about 416 days of one vCPU"},{"url":"https://www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/85975","date":"2026-05-19","proved":"forum thread titled around using Nvidia's 60c60g machine for free for a year confirms the shape and that a domain mailbox was accepted at signup"},{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-738507-1","date":"2026-05-20","proved":"counter-report, translated: no stock was available; the token expires immediately; login and machines must be raced for; and a later reply says the machine now sleeps automatically every 24 hours, which contradicts the 72 hour figure"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Two independent forum reports disagree on whether the sleep window is 72 hours or 24. DSX Air is a data-centre simulation product, so the machines are network simulators and not a general build host; that is a tooling note and not a rejection. The business-email gate is the finding: this is another institution-shaped free allowance with a five-figure compute-hour number beside it.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"vendor-trial","free_tier_kind":"trial-credit","shape":{"vcpu":60,"ram_gib":60,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":60,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":72,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"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"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}