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Cloud Studio Compute

trialany-phone?card?phoneRretention-clamped

linux.do/t/topic/2902157 · dev environment · compute/cloud-studio · JSON · compare

Free tier	reported: a user accumulated more than 2,000 machine-hours of Tencent Cloud Studio credit from a platform bug, with the highest usable shape reported as an L40 GPU, and asked the forum what to do with it. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	the 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026.
Egress	not stated
Identity	any-phone (placeholder) unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the machine-hour grants and the trial-only verdict (a 20 machine-hour pack 'after binding a Tencent Cloud account', 2 machine hours a day on login) but not what that account requires. No evidence row names a phone, a card, an email or an ID document, so the stored any-phone kind is unsupported by this record's own evidence.
Limits	retention-clamped the 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026. source the 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026.
Binding	retention-clamped the 2,000 hours came from a defect and not from the offer, so it is unreproducible by design, and the same thread's earlier reports show the standing grant falling from 50,000 minutes a month in 2024 to 20 to 50 hours in 2026.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	2,000 L40 hours is about 200 hours of a 10-GPU job, which would be the largest free GPU allowance in the corpus if it were an offer rather than a defect; as a chain element it is a windfall and not a resource.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded to stop a future session chasing it: the number is real and the route is not. ⚠ A defect grant is not a free tier and must not be counted as one, which is why this is `trial-only` with the defect named in the offer. The useful signal is the trend it sits in: Tencent's standing grant fell by roughly two orders of magnitude between 2024 and 2026 while users kept finding temporary surplus.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-05
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:retention-clamped 2000.0 hours

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-09-14	linux.do/t/topic/2902157	the post, translated: 'earlier Cloud Studio had a bug and I got 2,000-plus machine-hours free, I do not know what to do with them'; the highest configuration available is described as an L40 GPU [re-read 2026-10-22: fetch exit 0, token overlap 0.21; the original capture stands]
2026-07-22	linux.do/t/topic/2635751	the standing offer for comparison, translated: 50 machine-hours on registration and 2 a day for checking in, with replies reporting only 20 [re-read 2026-10-22: fetch exit 0, token overlap 0.0; the original capture stands]
2026-10-22	cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1039/131773	quoted, translated from the vendor's machine-hour FAQ: 'first binding grant: after binding a Tencent Cloud account, a 20 machine-hour resource pack is granted' and 'daily login: after logging in each day, 2 machine hours can be claimed from the profile card (valid for 7 days)'. A new account therefore starts with tens of hours and accumulates at 2 a day, which supports the trial-only verdict and the top of the stored 20-to-50-hour range; it does not support the 2,000-hour windfall, which stays a forum report and is not repeated by any vendor page

More fields (1)

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  "class": "cloud-ide",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "L40",
   "gpu_count": 1,
   "vram_gib": 48
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.tooling not-stated