Weights & Biases / CoreWeave Forge

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Weights & Biases / CoreWeave Forge (academic free tier) Storage

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wandb.ai/site/pricing · ml-hub · storage/weights-biases-coreweave-forge · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage. Pro: 100 GB/month. 'Free forever for academic research' tier: 200 GB of cloud storage, unlimited tracked hours, up to 25 GB/month Weave ingestion, up to 100 seats — requires an active academic email address. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not metered separately for artifact reads; storage is billed as a rolling 30-day consumption average in GB-days, so churn does not help you.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: month Weave ingestion, up to 100 seats — requires an active academic email address. Migrated from wandb.ai branding to CoreWeave Forge (the pricing page 301s to coreweave.com/forge-pricing) —
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	s3, rest rest
Tooling	wandb Python SDK, `wandb artifact` API, artifacts pull via `wandb artifact get`; W&B also accepts 'reference artifacts' pointing at an external bucket (S3/GCS) which do NOT count against quota — that is the real trick here.
Composes with	200 GB per academic account x up to 100 seats in one academic org = 20 TB of quota, but the seats clause is about people, not storage pools — storage is per-entity and would need to be checked. The clean multiplier is reference artifacts: unlimited pointers to external storage at zero quota cost (useful as an index layer over Kaggle/Modal bytes, not as storage itself).
Reliability	Migrated from wandb.ai branding to CoreWeave Forge (the pricing page 301s to coreweave.com/forge-pricing) — product continuity is fine, but as an academic user you are now depending on a GPU-cloud vendor's free tier.
Notes	Free plan: 5 GB/month of storage. Pro: 100 GB/month. 'Free forever for academic research' tier: 200 GB of cloud storage, unlimited tracked hours, up to 25 GB/month Weave ingestion, up to 100 seats — requires an active academic email address.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	wandb.ai/site/pricing	> https://coreweave.com/forge-pricing — plan table: 'Storage Free 5 GB/mo, Pro 100 GB/mo, Additional storage $0.03/GB'
2026-10-21	coreweave.com/forge-pricing	'Free forever for academic research ... 200GB free cloud storage ... up to 25 GB per month of Weave data ingestion, and up to 100 seats. An active academic email address is required.'
2026-10-21	coreweave.com/forge-pricing	'Does tracked data stored on an external server count against my storage quota? No. ... Reference artifacts and data stored in an external storage bucket will not count.'

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