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Nosana Compute

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Free tier	The USD 50 is real as an announcement but not as a standing offer. Quoted from the 2026-03-13 post: 'You can now claim $50 in free GPU credits instantly on the Nosana website. No extra steps, no waiting'. Quoted from the November 2025 and October 2025 monthly posts and still live: 'Your credits will be activated and assigned within a few days', and 'you can join the early-access list. No commitment. No payment.' Quoted from the June 2026 post: 'You can verify a payment method to claim free credits or top up your balance'. The live site states only: 'Claim free credits when you log in with email' with no amount. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; one-off-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	Also not established: whether credits cover storage or egress separately, since Nosana bills compute from the balance and does not publish a separate storage line.
Identity	card two routes with different costs. On the current route a payment method must be verified: the June 2026 post states 'You can verify a payment method to claim free credits or top up your balance'. On the early-access route there is no payment at all, quoted 'No commitment. No payment.', with credits activated within a few days. The live site states only 'Claim free credits when you log in with email'. No authorisation amount is stated, and whether debit or prepaid is accepted is not stated
Limits	write-gated Two gates fail before the money does: the grant is not self-serve at a stated amount, since the current route is an early-access list with activation 'within a few days' and the June 2026 route is payment-method verification; then supply fails, because the site reports 0 of 16 hosts on the USD 0.048 RTX 3060 and 2 of 39 on the USD 0.192 RTX 3090. source Two gates fail before the money does: the grant is not self-serve at a stated amount, since the current route is an early-access list with activation 'within a few days' and the June 2026 route is payment-method verification; then supply fails, because the site reports 0 of 16 hosts on the USD 0.048 RTX 3060 and 2 of 39 on the USD 0.192 RTX 3090.
Binding	write-gated Two gates fail before the money does: the grant is not self-serve at a stated amount, since the current route is an early-access list with activation 'within a few days' and the June 2026 route is payment-method verification; then supply fails, because the site reports 0 of 16 hosts on the USD 0.048 RTX 3060 and 2 of 39 on the USD 0.192 RTX 3090.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The USD 50 does not chain with anything, because the cheap card it was priced against has no host and the cards that do have hosts cost four times as much. If granted, USD 50 is 260 hours on the RTX 3090 that 2 of 39 hosts offer, or 100 hours on a 5090 with 0 of 38 hosts free.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	BATCH 1 CORRECTION, in two parts. First, batch 1's binding_note said the grant is 'behind an eligibility list', which is right, but it recorded the offer as reaching USD 50 with identity_cost 'email'; the June 2026 post puts the same grant behind payment-method verification, so the identity cost is card on that route and the email route has no published amount. Second, and larger, batch 1 recorded the card at 'RTX 3060 at USD 0.048/hour' without its availability: the provider's own site reports 0 of 16 hosts for that card. The division is correct (50 / 0.048 = 1,042 GPU-hours) and it is not reachable. The term that batch 1 called 'about 1,040 GPU-hours' should be read as a rate-card ceiling, not capacity. Not established: any credit expiry term. the docs state none; no page was found that states one. Also not established: whether credits cover storage or egress separately, since Nosana bills compute from the balance and does not publish a separate storage line. No third-party account of spending a Nosana credit was found. The one recorded is the better-evidenced.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (12)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	nosana.com/	probe status 200, 347708 bytes, sha256 a21f05160be36c8ebbc3b8204fb50504ce2146c6f224be0f9d4aa3c7385141a3; the GPU table reports availability per card: NVIDIA 3060 USD 0.048 0/16 hosts, 4060 USD 0.064 0/5, 4070 USD 0.096 0/7, 3090 USD 0.192 2/39, 4090 USD 0.400 0/94, 5090 USD 0.500 0/38, H100 USD 1.500 0/0
2026-10-22	api.nosana.com/markets	47 markets; the renter price derived from nos_job_price_per_second against the NOS price implied by usd_reward_per_hour reproduces the site table exactly (3060 USD 0.0480, 3090 USD 0.1919, 4090 USD 0.4000, 5090 USD 0.5000, A100 80GB USD 0.8999), each with a 10% network fee; the nodes array is empty for every market, so this endpoint carries no supply data
2026-07-01	nosana.com/blog/nosana-monthly-june-2026/	quoted: 'You can verify a payment method to claim free credits or top up your balance', which puts the credit behind a payment instrument as of June 2026
2026-10-22	learn.nosana.com/api/credits.html	quoted: credits.request() is 'Request free credits (subject to eligibility)' behind a checkEligibility() call, and deployments fail with INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS at zero balance; no amount, expiry or coverage term is stated in the docs
2026-10-22	nosana.com/blog/the-new-nosana-experience-is-now-live/	post dated 2026-03-13 says new users claim USD 50 in free GPU credits on the site with no extra steps
2026-10-22	nosana.com/gpu-workloads/	quoted: claim free credits when you log in with email; wallet is optional; probe returned status 200, 231506 bytes, sha256 da179e374df3391e2d7089bf21d53e1347361c2c04d4f942223838a5eee5a9cc
2026-10-22	learn.nosana.com/api/credits.html	credits.request() is 'Request free credits (subject to eligibility)', with a checkEligibility() call, so the grant is conditional and not automatic
2026-10-22	nosana.com/blog/cloud-gpu-providers-compared/	Nosana states on its own site that the NVIDIA 3060 is USD 0.048/hour and the 3080 USD 0.096/hour
2026-10-22	nosana.com/blog/nosana-monthly-october-edition/	the October 2026 post replaces the instant claim with a list: quoted, join the early-access list, no commitment and no payment, and your free credits will be activated and assigned within a few days
2026-10-22	nosana.com/blog/the-new-nosana-experience-is-now-live/	quoted: 'Instantly claim $50 in free GPU credits - directly on the site ... No extra steps, no waiting'. This is the only first-party source of the USD 50 figure [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	nosana.com/blog/nosana-monthly-october-edition/	quoted: join the early-access list, no commitment, no payment, and 'Your free credits will be activated and assigned within a few days'; the same paragraph is live on the November 2025 post [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	redlib.vanillax.me/r/Nosana_AI	a moderator edit on the launch post, quoted: 'Due to a large volume of requests, the free credits have been put on hold for now', with Discord offered as the route instead [re-read 2026-10-22]

More fields (1)

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$.tooling not-stated