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Free Machines (Free Tier)

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Gradient offers a Free Tier of free GPU and CPU machines, available to all users of Gradient Community Notebooks (currently in beta).

The Free machines are available to all Private Workspace plans, i.e. G* subscriptions (not T*).

Machine Types available in the Free Tier

Free-CPU — C4 CPU machine

Free-GPU+ — NVIDIA M4000 GPU

Free-P5000 — NVIDIA P5000 GPU (requires G1 or great subscription )

See the page for the details on these machines.

Persistent Storage for Free Machines

For your machine learning work on Free machines, you have 5GB of dedicated Persistent Storage. This 5GB of storage is persistent and upgradeable based on your subscription tier.

Because Persistent Storage is exclusive per-region, this means that data in Persistent Storage for the Free Tier is not accessible from paid machine types, and vice versa. However, you may upgrade the storage size of your Free Tier machines based on paid subscription storage sizing.

For example, you can be on a G2 subscription plan with 1TB of Persistent Storage, which will be used for your paid work, and any Free Machines that you use (which you will still have access to) will also have access to their dedicated 1TB of persistent storage. This storage, however, cannot be shared between machine types.

Limits of Free Machines

There are certain limits on free machines that assist in keeping the capacity for free notebooks available for all users who want access.

Auto-Shutdown: The maximum auto-shutdown limit for any free-machine is 6 hours

Inactivity: Any notebook that is inactive for 1 hour will auto-shutdown. This is to keep free machine capacity available for the Paperspace community.

Notebook Limit: Only 1 Notebook with a free machine can be running at a given time.

Public: On free subscriptions, notebooks with free machines will always be set to public. Upgrade to Pro/Growth if you would like to set free machines to private.

Note: We are currently offering a limited pool of free machines so your notebook may be Pending in the queue as you wait for a free machine to become available. If you need immediate access to machines, please consider upgrading to a paid machine type.

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