55 AI compute providers rechecked against official pages: 39 publish a real free credit, tier, or trial, 16 publish none. Four corrections this month, every number dated and sourced.
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01 / Guides
Decision guides, not benchmarks
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Longer pieces on picking and using compute for AI work. Each one is a decision guide, not a benchmark: how the categories work, what the official pages say, and which questions decide the choice. Numbers carry a last-checked date.
Eight sandbox products compared on GPU availability, whether the free credit can touch a GPU, and what the credit converts to at official rates. Checked 2026-08-22.
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Seven credit card traps in AI compute free credits: default paid plans, self-converting trials, card rules, deposits sold as credits. Checked 2026-08-21.
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55 AI compute providers checked against official pages: 38 publish a real free credit, tier, or trial, 17 publish none. Every number dated and sourced.
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Only three of the 55 tracked free credits officially buy GPU time: Modal, OVHcloud, and Thunder Compute (US students). Beam withdrew its $30 per month on 2026-09-09; the rest of the sweep was checked 2026-08-21.
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A VPS suits always-on small services, GPU clouds suit training and heavy inference, serverless suits bursty jobs, and sandboxes suit untrusted agent code. How to pick.
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Looking for free credits instead? The credits index tracks what each provider officially gives away, with dates.