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Quoted prices from the live inventory: H100 x1 small at USD 3.09 per hour, RTX PRO 6000B x1 small at USD 1.69 per hour, a 4-vCPU CPU-only i...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"targon","provider":"Targon","url":"https://targon.com/inventory","category":"GPU cloud","free_tier":{"stated":"No signup credit. Quoted prices from the live inventory: H100 x1 small at USD 3.09 per hour, RTX PRO 6000B x1 small at USD 1.69 per hour, a 4-vCPU CPU-only instance at USD 0.15 per hour, and B300 x8 out of stock at USD 8.40-8.50. Signup quoted as a plain email and password form at targon.com/create-account.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://targon.com/inventory","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"kind not stated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://targon.com/inventory","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://targon.com/inventory","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://targon.com/inventory"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"None at zero budget. Worth noting that Targon's email signup means a Bittensor-hosted GPU business can be reached without any wallet, which contradicts the common assumption that Bittensor subnets are wallet-gated.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"There is no free tier, so a funded balance fails first. The cheapest thing that runs at all is a CPU-only instance at USD 0.15 per hour.","source":"https://targon.com/inventory"}],"limits_note":"There is no free tier, so a funded balance fails first. The cheapest thing that runs at all is a CPU-only instance at USD 0.15 per hour.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"There is no free tier, so a funded balance fails first. The cheapest thing that runs at all is a CPU-only instance at USD 0.15 per hour.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email only: the create-account page is an email address, a password and a password confirmation, \"with no wallet field\", so a Bittensor wallet is not part of onboarding. No card, phone or identity document is stated at signup and no hold exists there; the record does not state whether debit or prepaid cards are accepted when a balance is funded, and independent metadata records onboarding as self-serve with \"trial: no\"","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://targon.com/inventory","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"live table shows H100 x1 at USD 3.09 per hour In Stock, RTX PRO 6000B x1 at USD 1.69 in stock, CPU Small AMD 4 vCPU at USD 0.15 in stock, B300 x8 at USD 8.40-8.50 Out of Stock"},{"url":"https://targon.com/create-account","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"signup is an email address, password and password confirmation, with no wallet field"},{"url":"https://docs.targon.com/guides/virtual-machines","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"confidential GPU VMs with Intel TDX and direct SSH; requires attaching an SSH key at creation; login user is always ubuntu"},{"url":"https://apis.io/providers/targon/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"independent metadata records onboarding as self-serve with 'trial: no'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Targon is the counter-example to the wallet assumption for Bittensor subnets. Its account creation is a plain email form, its docs never ask for a TAO balance, and the wallet appears only on the provider side where a miner hotkey is used. The GPU business is therefore reachable in principle by any client with money, and not at all by this one. A LinkedIn post from a Targon representative offers free credits on request, which is an interpersonal door and not a documented program.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"decentralized-gpu-cloud","free_tier_kind":null,"shape":{"vcpu":12,"ram_gib":175,"gpu_class":"H100","gpu_count":1}}}},"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"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}