Fast Grants

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Fast Grants Compute

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Free tier	The programme is offline. The domain now returns, quoted: 'This page doesn't exist - It may have been moved, removed, or never existed. 404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND', which is a Vercel deployment error rather than a page. The archived version from 2021 states the scope, quoted: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.' That sentence is also the reason the programme is out of lane: it funded COVID-19 bioscience at academic institutions, not compute. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19. source the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.
Binding	write-gated the door is shut and was always conditional on an academic institution: the site is a dead deployment, and the 2021 capture limits the grant to scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Nil. Recording it stops the next reader from chasing a name that appears on lists of fast science funding and has never had a compute lane.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as dead rather than paid-only because the organisation is gone, not because it charges: the deployment is deleted and the last capture is from 2021. Brief lists Fast Grants among programmes worth checking, and the check produced a refutation: it was a COVID-19 bioscience fund behind an academic-institution gate, so it was never reachable by for a user and never bought a GPU hour. A recurrence under the same name would be a new finding, not a correction to this one.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (6)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.fastgrants.org/	'This page doesn't exist'; '404 DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND'; 'bom1::9l4zl-1792682528794-85ed34daf84f'; page 404 at origin
2026-10-22	web.archive.org/web/20210602095236id_/https://fastgrants.org	the 2021 capture's own description: 'Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.', and its body lists funded COVID-19 preprints and papers; capture 20210602095236 returned 200
2026-10-22	web.archive.org/web/20210602095236/https://fastgrants.org/?p	the archive lookup resolved exactly one capture at 121956 s from the requested 2021-06, which dates the page to June 2021 and shows no later capture in the queried window
2026-10-22	fastgrants.org/	measured: the live host returns HTTP 404 with body 'DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND' from Vercel, so the site no longer exists
2026-10-22	www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/fast-grants/	reported: 'Between the first and second rounds of funding, Fast Grants distributed over $40 million in grants before suspending the program'
2026-10-22	www.uoguelph.ca/research/alerts/content/fast-funding-covid-1	reported by a university research office: 'Due to receipt of a very large number of qualified submissions, Fast Grant applications are currently closed'

More fields (1)

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  "class": "grant",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-time-grant",
  "shape": {
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   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.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