Free AI Compute and GPU Tools

Free offer

Allowance

Colab offers a free-of-charge tier with dynamic, unpublished usage limits; free notebooks can run for at most 12 hours depending on availability and usage patterns.

Resets

Unknown

Commercial use

Unknown

Important restrictions & access notes

• Google does not publish a fixed free quota
• GPU and TPU types vary over time
• Idle timeouts and maximum runtime depend on availability and usage
• Free runtimes prioritize interactive notebook work; remote desktops, SSH shells and primarily web-UI workloads are restricted
• Platform: Modern web browser
• Verification: Google account for running and saving notebooks

Free offer

Allowance

A free Hugging Face account receives 5 minutes of included ZeroGPU time per day; unauthenticated use receives 2 minutes, and the quota resets 24 hours after first GPU use.

Resets

Daily

Commercial use

Unknown

Important restrictions & access notes

• GPU time is shared and queue priority depends on account tier
• Free hosting is limited to two eligible ZeroGPU Spaces
• ZeroGPU supports Gradio and selected Python and PyTorch versions
• The daily quota is shared across ZeroGPU apps; xlarge GPU allocation consumes quota at twice the rate
• Short GPU-backed app tasks, not a general-purpose GPU virtual machine
• Platform: Web browser or Gradio API client
• Verification: Free account for the 5-minute quota
• Verification: Hosting requires a verified email, an account older than 30 days and good standing

Free offer

Allowance

Kaggle documents a GPU quota of 30 hours per week, sometimes higher depending on demand and available resources; the quota resets weekly.

Resets

Weekly

Commercial use

Unknown

Important restrictions & access notes

• The weekly GPU allowance can change with demand and resources
• Stop GPU sessions when finished; closing the browser does not immediately stop compute
• GPU and TPU availability is managed by Kaggle and can involve queues
• Documented CPU/GPU executions have a 12-hour maximum; TPU executions have a 9-hour maximum
• GPU access requires phone verification; the cited staff statement is historical, not a fresh account test
• Platform: Modern web browser
• Verification: Kaggle account
• Verification: Phone number verification required for GPU access

Free offer

Allowance

One active CPU Studio is free without a card, with a four-hour session limit requiring a restart. Eligible registrations receive 5 introductory compute credits; the additional 25-credit bonus requires a card. This is not a recurring free GPU-hours allowance.

Resets

Does not reset

Commercial use

Unknown

Important restrictions & access notes

• Restart the free CPU Studio at the four-hour limit; confirm the Free label before continuing
• GPU machines and Studios or jobs not marked Free consume credits at their published rates
• Only the first 10 GB of storage is free; the Free plan storage cap is not a free storage allowance
• The additional 25-credit bonus requires a card; advertised up-to-80-GPU-hours combines credits and depends on the machine
• Introductory credits are eligibility-dependent and do not establish a recurring monthly GPU grant
• Platform: Modern web browser or supported local IDE
• Verification: Lightning account
• Verification: Phone or eligible email verification may be required