{"rid":"compute/starverseai-student-support","card":{"rid":"compute/starverseai-student-support","eid":"starverse-ai","topic":"compute","slug":"starverseai-student-support","provider":"StarverseAI student support","url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","domain":"starverse-ai.com","category":"GPU cloud","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-identity","vorder":4,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","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":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Quoted from the vendor announcement dated 2026-03-07: the student support plan targets full-time students worldwide, and after completing edu email or CHSI v...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"starverseai-student-support","provider":"StarverseAI student support","url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"Quoted from the vendor announcement dated 2026-03-07: the student support plan targets full-time students worldwide, and after completing edu email or CHSI verification a new account receives a CNY 10 trial credit plus 100 hours of NVIDIA A10 or RTX 4090 GPU cloud host. The vendor prices that: single RTX 4090 at CNY 1.8 per hour and A10 at CNY 2.2, so the 100 free hours are worth about CNY 180 to 220.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-shot-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"100 hours of 4090 time is enough to fine-tune a 7B model and is the largest GPU-hour grant found in this class; the composition that would matter is a second one-shot grant from a different vendor, since these cannot stack with themselves.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"100 GPU hours once rather than monthly, behind an .edu address or a CHSI enrollment record, so the largest GPU-hour grant found in this class is unreachable without enrollment and does not renew.","source":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814"}],"limits_note":"100 GPU hours once rather than monthly, behind an .edu address or a CHSI enrollment record, so the largest GPU-hour grant found in this class is unreachable without enrollment and does not renew.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"100 GPU hours once rather than monthly, behind an .edu address or a CHSI enrollment record, so the largest GPU-hour grant found in this class is unreachable without enrollment and does not renew.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"institution, in the form of student status: the grant needs an .edu email address or a CHSI verification code, or an uploaded student card, reviewed within 30 minutes, and the anti-abuse check is face recognition plus device fingerprint, so a face check is part of the gate. The second offer is narrower - an .edu.cn address specifically for a CNY 500 voucher. No card, hold, debit or prepaid statement appears in any evidence row: unknown.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"The 100-hour A10 or 4090 grant and its two verification routes; application requires uploading a student card or CHSI verification code, or entering an .edu address, reviewed within 30 minutes; anti-abuse is face recognition plus device fingerprint."},{"url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2814","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"Vendor pricing that sets the value: CNY 1.8 per hour for a single RTX 4090, CNY 2.2 for an A10, and 100 hours worth CNY 180 to 220."},{"url":"https://www.starverse-ai.com/guide/archives/2130","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"A second education sponsorship for .edu.cn holders: a CNY 500 GPU voucher exchangeable for 300+ hours of RTX 4090 or 80 hours of A100 40G, a larger one-shot grant gated on a Chinese academic address specifically."}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The 300+ hour 4090 variant is recorded because it is the bigger number and strictly harder to reach, a Chinese academic address rather than any academic address. Both are one-shot, so neither becomes a recurring tier. Open question: whether either offer is live in October 2026. The vendor homepage now leads with unrelated video-generation products and carries no education section, so the March 2026 guide post is the only source and the offer may have quietly lapsed. What would settle it is a current claim page on the vendor site or a first-hand account of a redemption in the last quarter.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"student-pack","free_tier_kind":"one-shot-credit","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"RTX 4090 or A10","gpu_count":1}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"hours","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":100,"unit":"GPU 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"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}