| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | Lightning AI |
| Category | gpu |
| Offer status | available |
| Deal type | free |
| What is free | 5 of the 30 free credits, granted at registration with no payment method — the genuinely card-free portion of Lightning's free tier. Credits are spent against a published per-GPU rate, so what 5 buys depends which GPU you pick; see the per-type hours in afr-0053b, which are quoted for the full 30. Free plan also gives 1 active Studio (restarts every 4 hours), 32-core CPU Studios, up to 2 concurrent GPUs, 50 GB persistent storage, and model-API access at 15 requests/min and 120,000 tokens/min. |
| Access barrier | phone-verification |
| How you get a credential | phone-verify (stated on the row) |
| Agent-usable | True |
| Evidence | documented |
| Confidence | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-08-26 |
| Source | https://lightning.ai/pricing |
| Caveats | NO GPU-HOUR FIGURE IS STATED FOR 5 CREDITS and this row deliberately does not compute one. The advertised “up to 80 free GPU hours” is the T4-weighted best case for all 30 credits; dividing it by six would invent a number the provider never published, and would inherit the T4 assumption on top. Use the per-GPU table on afr-0053b to convert. Phone number required at signup (“To prevent abuse of the platform”), which is why access is phone-verification rather than none. Credits expire 12 months after issue. The grant is framed “to start” — a one-time starting allowance, NOT a renewing monthly credit; an earlier draft of this row carried “~15 credits/month” from secondary sources and the first-party page does not support the monthly framing. The 4-hour Studio restart penalises long unattended runs. lightning.ai is a client-rendered SPA returning a loading stub to a plain fetch; read it through a text-extraction rendering route. |
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://lightning.ai/pricing
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