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AMD Developer Cloud ComputetrialcardcardDretention-clamped
AMD University Program Computefails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

AMD Developer Cloud Compute

trialcardcardDretention-clamped

www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access/amd-develope · GPU cloud · compute/amd-developer-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	25 hours of complimentary cloud credit, stated as approximately USD 50: 'AMD is offering an initial 25 hours of complimentary cloud credit to qualified developers who apply and are accepted.' The credit is valid for 10 days from deposit, covers AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs only, and excludes attached volumes, object storage and backups. A card is required at account creation. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	Two destruction triggers and one that bills silently: expiry or exhaustion destroys the VM and its data, while a powered-off instance keeps consuming credit until it is destroyed, so stopping the machine does not stop the meter.
Egress	not stated
Identity	card a card is required at account creation and to reach the complimentary hours; the application is reviewed by AMD, and an expired or invalid card forfeits access to the GPUs and the data on them
Limits	retention-clamped Two destruction triggers and one that bills silently: expiry or exhaustion destroys the VM and its data, while a powered-off instance keeps consuming credit until it is destroyed, so stopping the machine does not stop the meter. source Two destruction triggers and one that bills silently: expiry or exhaustion destroys the VM and its data, while a powered-off instance keeps consuming credit until it is destroyed, so stopping the machine does not stop the meter.
Binding	retention-clamped Two destruction triggers and one that bills silently: expiry or exhaustion destroys the VM and its data, while a powered-off instance keeps consuming credit until it is destroyed, so stopping the machine does not stop the meter.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Twenty-five hours on one MI300X with 192 GB of VRAM is a real fine-tuning window, and it composes with nothing that needs to persist, because the VM and its disk are destroyed at the end of the credit.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Batch 1 carried the 30-day expiry and missed the two clauses that decide how a run has to be built. First, a powered-off instance still consumes credit, so the correct discipline is to destroy and not to stop, and a reader who stops a machine to save credit loses the credit anyway. Second, expiry destroys the data, so every artefact has to be copied out before the clock ends. The allocation is also discretionary, and the larger public grant is restricted to Indian researchers and startups, which is a country gate on the 100,000-hour figure. The live page states 25 hours and 10 days, so both the amount and the window were wrong.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Evidence (11)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access/amd-develope	quoted: 'your AMD GPU VM will be destroyed and you will lose access to the GPU(s) and the data on the GPU(s)'; 'If a GPU Instance is powered off, you are still billed and/or credit hours will apply. Charges are incurred until the instance is destroyed.'
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access/amd-develope	quoted: 'Complimentary credit hours expire thirty (30) days from the date of deposit'; 'Complimentary AMD cloud credit applies only to use on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs'; volumes, object storage and backups are not covered
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access/amd-develope	allocation is discretionary: 'Cloud credit allocation on the AMD Developer Cloud is determined by AMD in its sole discretion, based on the intended use case'
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access.html	'an initial 25 hours of complimentary cloud credit to qualified developers who apply and are accepted'; 'approximately $50 US worth of cloud credit'; 'Complimentary credit hours expire ten (10) days from the date of deposit'; 'A valid credit card is required at the time of account creation'; 'If a GPU Instance is powered off, you are still billed and/or credit hours will apply'; quoted; page 200
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access.html	'The AMD Developer Cloud is intended for independent developers and open-source project contributors involved with ML, low-level programming, and AI applications development', quoted; no institution or degree condition appears
2026-10-22	developer.amd.com/ai-developer-program/	member benefit: 'Receive $100 in AMD Developer Cloud credits', quoted; program signup requires only an account
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/o	'$100 in free credits, which is enough for approximately 50 hours of usage', quoted; additional credits may be applied for by members who publicly share projects
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access/amd-develope	complimentary credit hours expire thirty days from the date of deposit unless stated otherwise, quoted; access is delivered through a third-party cloud platform that AMD may change
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/h	quoted: 'Credits expire 30 days after activation' [date precision: year precision] [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/100k-hours-free-developer-cloud-ac	AMD granted '100,000 hours of free Developer Cloud access over the next year to Indian researchers and startups', which is a country-restricted grant and not a general allowance [re-read 2026-10-22]
2026-10-23	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access.html	'AMD is offering an initial 25 hours of complimentary cloud credit to qualified developers who apply and are accepted.', quoted; the same page states the 10-day validity and the storage exclusions

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

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Corrections

2026-10-23 The credit ladder was re-read, and eight claims moved

AMD University Program Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program/ai-hpc-cluster.h · GPU cloud · compute/amd-university-program · JSON · compare

Free tier	Node-hour allocations on a cluster of dual EPYC hosts with Instinct accelerators, awarded quarterly by proposal, reachable over SSH at hpcfund.amd.com with Slurm. The vendor states: 'Node-hour based allocations are awarded quarterly to proposal submissions supporting innovative, impactful, open-source AI and HPC research', and 'Successful proposals receive cluster access for up to one year'. The enrollment page closes the loop: 'Membership is open exclusively to faculty and researchers at universities and research institutions worldwide. Enroll using your official academic email address - personal emails won't qualify.' unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution an official academic email address at a university or research institution, plus a proposal: the enrollment page states 'Membership is open exclusively to faculty and researchers at universities and research institutions worldwide. No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated on the pages read.
Limits	write-gated the AMD University Program enrolls only faculty and researchers at institutions, on an official academic email, and personal addresses are refused, so the quarterly proposal review is never reached. source the AMD University Program enrolls only faculty and researchers at institutions, on an official academic email, and personal addresses are refused, so the quarterly proposal review is never reached.
Binding	write-gated the AMD University Program enrolls only faculty and researchers at institutions, on an official academic email, and personal addresses are refused, so the quarterly proposal review is never reached.
Interface	ssh inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	None for a user. The sibling AMD Developer Cloud lane, recorded separately, is the only AMD route with no institution gate, and it is 25 hours rather than a node-year.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as the academic half of AMD's program so the next reader does not confuse it with the 25-hour developer credit, which is a different door on a different site with a different amount. The institution condition is stated three times across three AMD pages, including the enrollment rule that personal email addresses will not qualify, which is the clearest statement of the gate found in this class. A fourth page states the cluster is reviewed by an internal team at the end of each quarter and requires an annual survey and publication notification. Worth noting for completeness: the cluster is reachable over SSH and runs Slurm, so the constraint is purely the door, not the tooling.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program/ai-hpc-cluster.h	'Node-hour based allocations are awarded quarterly to proposal submissions supporting innovative, impactful, open-source AI and HPC research or educational initiatives'; 'Successful proposals receive cluster access for up to one year'; quoted; page 200
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/cloud-access.html	If approved, the default access duration is one year'; 'An AMD internal cross-functional team reviews applications at the end of each quarter', quoted
2026-10-22	www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program/enroll.html	'Membership is open exclusively to faculty and researchers at universities and research institutions worldwide. Enroll using your official academic email address - personal emails won't qualify.', quoted
2026-10-22	amdresearch.github.io/hpcfund/access.html	no instance was probed and no credential exists

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (8)

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