{"rid":"compute/prime-intellect-2","card":{"rid":"compute/prime-intellect-2","eid":"primeintellect","topic":"compute","slug":"prime-intellect-2","provider":"Prime Intellect","url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","domain":"primeintellect.ai","category":"GPU cloud","tier":null,"verdict":"dead","vorder":7,"grp":"dead","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"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":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"The grant program is gone. Its own page now returns HTTP 404, and no signup credit exists: the docs describe a prepaid model where 'your Prime Intellect cred...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":10},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"prime-intellect-2","provider":"Prime Intellect","url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"The grant program is gone. Its own page now returns HTTP 404, and no signup credit exists: the docs describe a prepaid model where 'your Prime Intellect credits are deducted every minute while the Pod is active' and 'If your credits run out, your Pods will be automatically deleted'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"None while the grant is closed. If it reopened it would be a real credit lane, because the platform aggregates other providers and accepts prepaid balances.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"Both doors fail: there is no signup credit, so the first pod needs a funded balance, and the USD 500 to USD 100,000 Fast Compute Grants program no longer has a live page.","source":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants"}],"limits_note":"Both doors fail: there is no signup credit, so the first pod needs a funded balance, and the USD 500 to USD 100,000 Fast Compute Grants program no longer has a live page.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"Both doors fail: there is no signup credit, so the first pod needs a funded balance, and the USD 500 to USD 100,000 Fast Compute Grants program no longer has a live page.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/fast-compute-grants","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"fetch --head returned 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found'; the page previously offered 'USD 500-USD 100k worth of Prime Intellect compute credits'"},{"url":"https://www.primeintellect.ai/grants","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"fetch --head returned 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found'"},{"url":"https://docs.primeintellect.ai/faq","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'Your Prime Intellect credits are deducted every minute while the Pod is active. If your credits run out, your Pods will be automatically deleted'; no free tier described"},{"url":"https://buildaicurrent.com/credits/prime-intellect-free-credits/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"independent check dated 2026-08-21 records that both the grants and ICLR pages returned 404 and that no live official page states either offer"}],"verdict":"dead","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"REFUTATION of a widely recirculated grant. Two figures circulate: 'USD 500 to USD 100,000 Fast Compute Grants' and 'USD 50 free compute at ICLR'. Both source pages return 404 as of 2026-10-22, and the ICLR page carried an expiry of 31 December 2024. The grant was real in 2024; it is not an offer now. What would settle it: a live page on primeintellect.ai naming an amount and an application route.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"gpu-marketplace-grant","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"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:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}