European Innovation Council

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European Innovation Council Compute

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eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-2026-work-pro · GPU cloud · compute/european-innovation-council · JSON · compare

Free tier	Grants below EUR 2.5 million combined with equity investment from EUR 0.5 million to EUR 10 million, from a EUR 634 million Accelerator budget in the 2026 work programme. The applicant guide states 'For grant only the maximum grant amount you can request is EUR 2 499 999'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated Eligibility runs through 'a single company classified as a SME, and established within a Member State or an Associated Country', or through natural persons who intend to establish that SME, because 'Your company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal'. source Eligibility runs through 'a single company classified as a SME, and established within a Member State or an Associated Country', or through natural persons who intend to establish that SME, because 'Your company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal'.
Binding	write-gated Eligibility runs through 'a single company classified as a SME, and established within a Member State or an Associated Country', or through natural persons who intend to establish that SME, because 'Your company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal'.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This is the one programme where the identity position is not the obstacle: the natural-person clause lets somebody without a company submit a short proposal, and the incorporation obligation lands only at full-proposal stage. What it composes with is a vendor's GPU lane, because a EUR 2.5 million grant converts a pay-as-you-go training budget into a funded line item rather than a credit balance.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Three readings of the gate were considered and the natural-person route is the only one that survives. (a) A company is required at submission: refuted by the call conditions, which admit 'natural persons ... intending to establish an SME', and refuted again by the eic.ec.europa.eu page listing 'Natural persons or legal entities willing to set up an SMEs'. (b) The company is required at full proposal: confirmed, 'must prove its effective establishment ... at the time of submission of the full proposal', so the short proposal is the free step and incorporation is the price of the second. (c) A non-associated third-country national is excluded: unresolved, the conditions allow applicants 'from a non-associated third country intending to establish an SME ... or to relocate an existing SME to a Member State', which reads as open but is a relocation commitment. The verdict is qualifies-with-caveat rather than qualifies because the grant is competitive against deep-tech proposals with a published success rate near single digits, and because EUR 2.5 million is an R&D budget that has to be spent against an approved work programme, not a credit balance.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-2026-work-pro	'EIC Accelerator (EUR 634 million) for start-ups and SMEs'; 'grants below EUR 2.5 million, investments from EUR 0.5 to EUR 10 million', quoted
2026-10-22	eic.ec.europa.eu/document/download/9d96fbf3-4d85-4ad0-9483-c	'For grant only the maximum grant amount you can request is EUR 2 499 999. For blended applications and ONLY in exceptional cases, you may request EUR 2 500 000 or more', quoted
2026-10-22	www.euacc.ai/calls/HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01	'one or more natural persons (including individual entrepreneurs) or legal entities ... from a Member State or an Associated Country intending to establish an SME', and 'Your company must prove its effective establishment in a Member State or an Associated Country at the time of submission of the full proposal', quoted from the call conditions
2026-10-22	eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-accelerator_e	eligible applicants are 'Single start-up or SME (including spin-outs)' or 'Natural persons or legal entities willing to set up an SMEs or a mid-cap', quoted

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated