paperspace free tier includes ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of… Verified November 2026. Compare with 8 alternatives in AI / ML.

paperspace Free Tier 2026

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Subtypes in AI / ML: gpu_compute — sells accelerator time for code you write; the unit billed is machine time, not a model call; model_hosting — you supply or select a model and the platform serves it behind an endpoint on hardware you choose. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.paperspace.com/pricing, where it says: “Deployments (inference) - Model Repository” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 8 alternatives. Verified November 2026. Last updated 2026-11-06.

paperspace's free tier offers ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for ai / ml workloads — 8 alternatives available.

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Verified
2026-11-06
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2026-11-06
The day we last read the vendor's page, and the day we last confirmed the terms we publish.

Free Tier Details

ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is $0 with public projects, 5 GB of storage and free machines for Notebooks in your private workspace (Free CPU C4 and Free GPU M4000; free machines shut down after at most 6 hours). Other machines are billed per hour. Pro is $8/month for individuals and $12/month for teams; Growth is $39/month. DigitalOcean says new customers can still sign up but recommends its own GPU products instead.

We read that on 2026-11-06 from https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names paperspace as "paperspace" and states "$8.00" and "$39.00" and "$12.00".

From docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing, read 2026-11-06:
Free 5 GB

When You'll Outgrow paperspace's Free Tier

Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: Paperspace's pricing page did not change. Its text is identical in the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-05-19, 2026-08-21 and 2026-09-23 (a Free plan with public projects, 5GB storage and basic instances; Pro at $8 per month). The differences this record describes were between the page and our own listing. Source ↗

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Alternatives in AI / ML

How paperspace compares against every one of the 8 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
paperspace Free stable
Roboflow Free
Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models. On September 18, 2026 Roboflow announced a free tier for its Core plan: 10 credits that refresh every month, private projects and models, and model weight download.
caution
Kaggle Free
Google's data science platform with free notebooks, datasets and competitions. Notebooks get a weekly GPU quota of 30 hours, sometimes more depending on demand (one NVIDIA Tesla P100 or two Tesla T4s), and a TPU v3-8 for up to 20 hours per week.
stable
Google Colab Free
Hosted Jupyter notebooks with free access to GPUs and TPUs. In the free version, notebooks run for at most 12 hours, depending on availability and usage, and idle runtimes time out.
stable
Modal Free
Serverless platform for running CPU and GPU workloads. The Starter plan has no monthly fee and includes $30 of compute per month (GPU, CPU and memory), 3 workspace seats, 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency.
caution
Hugging Face Free
ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.
caution
Fireworks AI Free Credits
Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started.
unrated
Replicate Trial
ML model hosting and inference. A new account can run the models in Replicate's Try for Free collection without buying credit, for a limited number of runs that Replicate does not state; after that you add billing and buy credit.
stable
Baseten Basic (Free Credits)
ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.
unrated

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is paperspace free?
Yes, paperspace offers a free tier: Free. ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is $0 with public projects, 5 GB of storage and free machines for Notebooks in your...
What is paperspace's free tier?
paperspace's free tier is called "Free". ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is $0 with public projects, 5 GB of storage and free machines for Notebooks in your private workspace (Free CPU C4 and Free GPU M4000; free machines shut down after at most 6 hours). Other machines are billed per hour. Pro is $8/month for individuals and $12/month for teams; Growth is $39/month. DigitalOcean says new customers can still sign up but recommends its own GPU products instead.
Is paperspace's free tier reliable?
paperspace's free tier is considered stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. See the pricing history below.
Is paperspace's free tier good for production?
paperspace's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean…, so it's a reasonable starting point. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in paperspace's pricing?
The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
What are the best free alternatives to paperspace?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 8 free alternatives to paperspace in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 5 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 3 are demoted with the reason named. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow paperspace's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is paperspace in?
paperspace is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 8 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.