Google Colab free tier GPU

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FieldValue
ProviderGoogle
Categorygpu
Offer statusavailable
Deal typefree
What is freeFree notebook GPU access with no credit card. Sessions run up to 12 hours "depending on availability and your usage patterns". Google deliberately does not publish the quota: "Colab does not publish these limits, in part because they can vary over time."
Access barrieroauth
How you get a credentialoauth-only (stated on the row)
Agent-usableFalse
Evidencedocumented
Confidenceverified
Last verified2026-08-24
Sourcehttps://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
CaveatsGPU access is NOT guaranteed — Google's FAQ says "access to expensive resources like GPUs is heavily restricted" on the free tier, and resources are "not guaranteed and not unlimited". No published hour quota, so any specific figure you read elsewhere (commonly "15-30 h/week") is third-party inference, not a Google commitment. Idle sessions are terminated and users "actively programming in a notebook" are prioritised, which penalises unattended jobs specifically. agent_usable is false: this is a hosted notebook UI with no API an agent can call. Needs a Google account.

Example

No measured example — this row is evidence: documented: it states what the provider's own page advertised on the date shown, and this worker holds no credential to call it. The provider's documentation is the source: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html


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