Akash Network

akash.network · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

Akash Network Computetrialemailno cardDretention-clamped
akash network Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

Akash Network Compute

trialemailno cardDretention-clamped

akash.network/docs/getting-started/quick-start/ · GPU cloud · compute/akash-network · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'USD 1 in free credits - enough to run your first deployment and explore the deploy loop', '30 days - your window to use the trial credit'. Quoted: 'Deployments run up to 24 hours each, and you can redeploy as many times as you like inside the 30-day window. GPUs up to the RTX 3090 are available. Anything above - including the RTX 4090, RTX 5090, and datacenter cards like the A100, H100, H200, and B200 - requires a non-trial account.' Prerequisites quoted: 'A valid email address (or Google / GitHub account). That's it! No credit card, no crypto wallet, no blockchain setup, no installation required.' unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-off-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	The USD 1 credit and the 24-hour per-deployment cap fail first: at the tracked RTX 3090 rate of USD 0.150 per GPU-hour the credit buys about 6.7 GPU-hours, so the trial proves the deploy loop and nothing more.
Egress	quoted comparison table lists Akash egress as Zero against AWS billed per GB, and commitment as None with the lease closeable whenever you want
Identity	email email, or a Google or GitHub account, and nothing else: the Quick Start prerequisites state 'A valid email address (or Google / GitHub account). That's it! No credit card, no crypto wallet, no blockchain setup, no installation required.', and a second Akash page states 'no card required'. No hold exists because no payment method is taken, so the debit and prepaid questions do not arise at signup; the paid permissionless route is funded in ACT and documents 'no KYC'.
Limits	retention-clamped The USD 1 credit and the 24-hour per-deployment cap fail first: at the tracked RTX 3090 rate of USD 0.150 per GPU-hour the credit buys about 6.7 GPU-hours, so the trial proves the deploy loop and nothing more. source The USD 1 credit and the 24-hour per-deployment cap fail first: at the tracked RTX 3090 rate of USD 0.150 per GPU-hour the credit buys about 6.7 GPU-hours, so the trial proves the deploy loop and nothing more.
Binding	retention-clamped The USD 1 credit and the 24-hour per-deployment cap fail first: at the tracked RTX 3090 rate of USD 0.150 per GPU-hour the credit buys about 6.7 GPU-hours, so the trial proves the deploy loop and nothing more.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The permissionless path is the composable half: no KYC, no 30-day clock, funded in ACT, so it is the only decentralized lane here that a wallet alone opens with no identity check. It composes with any card-priced workload the client cannot run locally.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recon's USD 1 is confirmed and is the current figure. An older blog post still advertises USD 10, so the trial was cut by 10x; a reader who finds the blog first will overestimate by 10x. The GPU price table at /pricing/gpus is client-rendered and returned empty rows through both read and raw fetch, so individual rates below the RTX 3090 tier were not read off Akash's own page. Akash's own usage calculator would settle the exact USD/GPU-hour. One inconsistency to carry forward: Akash homepage marketing states H100s for USD 1.33 per hour while its own H100 pricing page states USD 2.73 as of October 20 2026. The pricing page is the specific claim and the homepage line is undated, so the page wins. Egress does not bind at Akash: it documents zero egress fees, so the constraint here is the credit and the 24-hour deployment cap, not bandwidth.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:retention-clamped 1.0 credit

Evidence (11)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	akash.network/docs/getting-started/quick-start/	the trial is USD 1 of credit for 30 days, email/OAuth signup, no card and no wallet; per-deployment cap 24 hours; GPUs above RTX 3090 excluded from trial, all quoted
2026-10-22	akash.network/docs/getting-started/quick-start/	probe returned status 200, 162506 bytes, sha256 7a032564a9809899c843b7f7efc046a80cfa05a3b50b784537029717abb7254d
2026-10-22	akash.network/docs/getting-started/what-is-akash/	quoted: 'go permissionless with your own wallet (no KYC; fund deployments with ACT)'. Trial deployments have a 24-hour maximum duration per deployment
2026-10-22	akash.network/blog/introducing-credit-card-payments-in-akash	an earlier announcement of the same free trial states 'USD 10 in credit'; the live Quick Start page states USD 1. The page is stale against the docs and the smaller number is the one the docs assert
2026-10-22	akash.network/pricing/gpus/h100/	Akash own page states on-demand H100 starts at USD 2.73 per GPU-hour as of October 20 2026, and an 8x H100 at USD 21.84 per hour
2026-10-22	computeprices.com/providers/akash/gpus/rtx3090	independent tracker records Akash RTX 3090 at USD 0.150 per GPU-hour, last updated 2026-10-21, rank 2 of 12 providers for that card
2026-10-22	akash.network/docs/developers/deployment/akash-console/getti	quoted: receive USD 1 in free trial credits with no card required; trial deployments auto-close after 24 hours; H100, H200, A100, RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 are not available on the free trial
2026-10-22	akash.network/explore/compare/akash-vs-aws/	quoted comparison table lists Akash egress as Zero against AWS billed per GB, and commitment as None with the lease closeable whenever you want
2026-10-22	akash.network/docs/getting-started/quick-start/	quoted: USD 1 in free credits, 30-day window, 24-hour deployments, GPUs up to RTX 3090 only, email or OAuth and no card and no wallet
2026-10-22	computeprices.com/providers/akash/gpus/rtx3090	third-party price index reports RTX 3090 on Akash at USD 0.150 per GPU-hour on-demand, one configuration, observed the same day
2026-10-22	skycisa.com/providers/akash-network	a second index lists RTX 3090 24Gi at USD 0.090 and an RTX 3060 12Gi at USD 0.080 from the Akash marketplace, giving the 0.09 to 0.15 range used in the division

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (6)

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akash network Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

akash.network/docs/learn/core-concepts/persistent-storage/ · rejected-provider · storage/akash-network · JSON · compare

Free tier	It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and there is no object-storage or IPFS p unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and there is no object-storage or IPFS p
Notes	It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and there is no object-storage or IPFS p
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	akash.network/docs/learn/core-concepts/persistent-storage/	It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and there is no object-storage or IPFS p

More fields (1)

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  "failure_class": "not-storage",
  "why": "It is a compute marketplace, not storage: persistent storage is a paid resource attached to a deployment (per-GB-month in AKT), ephemeral by default, and there is no object-storage or IPFS p",
  "retry_when": "never; it is not storage",
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

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$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
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$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded