Paperspace Gradient

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Paperspace Gradient Computecaveatemailno cardDvolume-quota
Paperspace Gradient (DigitalOcean) Storagefails: quotacard?cardR

Paperspace Gradient Compute

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www.paperspace.com/pricing · GPU cloud · compute/paperspace-gradient · JSON · compare

Free tier	USD 0 with 'FREE GPU', a 12-hour auto-shutdown limit and 5 GB of storage; the free machine list names 'Free GPU (M4000)' and 'Free CPU (C4)' as available on the Free plan unit hours; metered on wall-clock; No weekly or monthly GPU-hour cap is published on either page. The 12-hour auto-shutdown is the only time number.
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object
Retention	5 GB of storage on the Free plan; storage overage is billed at USD 0.29/GB
Egress	'We do not charge for ingress or egress bandwidth for Paperspace Machines.' free_allowance: unmetered
Identity	email a Paperspace account; the pricing page states no card for the Free plan, and the free-tier note says paid instances are billed per hour so a card is needed only for those
Limits	volume-quota 12-hour auto-shutdown per session; no published hourly or weekly GPU cap source per-object-cap 5 GB of storage on the Free plan source the 12-hour auto-shutdown binds first, and behind it a shared capacity pool: a free notebook can sit pending while paid instances start immediately
Binding	volume-quota the 12-hour auto-shutdown is the only enforced clock published; the absence of an hour cap is a gap in the documentation, not a promise
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	it composes with Kaggle by giving an always-on notebook that does not consume Kaggle's weekly quota.
Reliability	a powered-off machine still bills its storage and public IP until it is destroyed
Notes	Two first-party pages conflict: the Paperspace plans page gives the Free plan 'Public projects' only, while DigitalOcean's pricing page says free machines 'can only be used for Notebooks in private workspaces'. Both were read today. Which is enforced is unknown, and it decides whether free GPU work is visible to everyone.
Evidence rung	documented the plan lines and the free-machine table are quoted from the vendor and DigitalOcean pages today. The GPU class comes from DigitalOcean's table, not Paperspace's, and the two pages disagree about whether Free projects can be private.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB

Evidence (9)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.paperspace.com/pricing	quoted: Free plan USD 0 with 'FREE GPU', 'Auto-shutdown (12 hour limit)', '5GB storage', 'Basic instances', 'Public projects'
2026-10-22	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	quoted free machine table: 'Free GPU (M4000)' available on the Free, Pro and Growth plans; free machines provide limited CPU and GPU resources for development and testing
2026-10-22	www.paperspace.com/pricing	probe 200, 127225 bytes, sha256 f55fdd9f941c, 2026-10-22T14:24:06Z, no false-200 signature
2026-10-22	docs.paperspace.com/gradient/instances/instance-types	the legacy Gradient instance-type page returned no instance text; the retired-generation docs describe a 'limited pool of free instances' where a notebook may be Pending while it waits for a machine
2026-10-24	www.paperspace.com/pricing	the Free plan column is a bullet list reading 'FREE GPU', '$0', 'Public projects', 'Auto-shutdown (12 hour limit)', '5GB storage', 'Basic instances'
2026-10-24	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	quoted: '\| Free GPU (M4000) \| Free, Pro, Growth \|'
2026-10-24	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	quoted: 'Free machines provide limited CPU and GPU resources for development and testing and can only be used for Notebooks in private workspaces.'
2026-10-24	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	quoted: 'We do not charge for ingress or egress bandwidth for Paperspace Machines.'
2026-10-24	docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/	quoted: '\| GPU+ (M4000) \| $0.45/hr \| Free, Pro, Growth \|' — the paid rate for the same card

More fields (13)

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  "class": "perpetual-free-instance",
  "free_tier_kind": "allowance",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": "M4000",
   "gpu_count": 1
  }
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 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": null,
  "disk_gib": 5,
  "gpu_class": "M4000",
  "gpu_count": 1,
  "note": "the GPU class is named; vCPU and RAM for the free M4000 notebook are not published"
 },
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "none",
 "m10h_usd": 0.0,
 "m24h_usd": 0.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 0.00 on the Free plan; the same M4000 card is USD 0.45/hr on a paid instance",
 "free_tier_kind": "free-forever-with-quota",
 "unattended": false,
 "unattended_mechanism": "unverified: the 12-hour auto-shutdown implies a running notebook, and no scheduler is described",
 "network_out": {
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  "allow_inbound_listen": false,
  "ports": "unstated",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": false,
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 },
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  "wall_clock_min": 720,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": true,
  "note": "12-hour auto-shutdown on the Free plan"
 },
 "units": "RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed."
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.chaining partly-held
$.tooling not-stated

Paperspace Gradient (DigitalOcean) Storage

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www.paperspace.com/gradient · iaas · storage/paperspace-gradient · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free tier: '5GB storage', basic instances, free GPU, public projects. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not metered separately on the free tier.
Identity	card (placeholder) inferred from the category 'iaas'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest, cli rest
Tooling	Gradient notebooks/CLI; persistent storage is a mounted `/storage` volume shared across notebooks on the account.
Composes with	5 GB x N accounts. Too small to matter; the next tiers (15 GB, 50 GB) are paid or trial.
Reliability	Stable and long-running, but 5 GB is 1% of the client's minimum and there is no free path upward.
Notes	Free tier: '5GB storage', basic instances, free GPU, public projects.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.paperspace.com/pricing	Free tier: 'Auto-shutdown (12 hour limit)', '5GB storage', 'Basic instances'
2026-10-21	www.paperspace.com/pricing	paid tiers list '15GB storage' and '50GB storage'

More fields (1)

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  "why": "Free tier: '5GB storage', basic instances, free GPU, public projects.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted