Genesis Cloud $100 Referral Credit (Free GPU Hours)
Source: https://www.genesiscloud.com/
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+ 1 Genesis Cloud is a European GPU cloud (HQ Berlin, data centers in Iceland and Norway, plus US) that powers large fleets of NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, RTX 4090, RTX 3090, and RTX 3080 instances. There is no standing automatic free trial credit on the Genesis Cloud website today — the realistic path for an indie builder to get free GPU hours is the $100 referral credit you receive when you sign up through someone else's referral link and create your first instance.
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+ 3 The widely circulated "166 free GPU hours" figure is legacy / outdated: it was derived from an older $50 trial credit divided by an old $0.30/h RTX 3080 rate. Genesis Cloud has since changed pricing (RTX 3080 is now listed at $0.08/h, RTX 3090 at $0.20/h, RTX 4090 at $0.55/h, H100 from $1.60/h, H200/B200 from $2.80/h) and dropped the publicly advertised automatic trial balance. So treat "166 hours" as a historical headline — what you actually get in 2026 is a $100 referral credit, which translates to anywhere from ~50 hours on an RTX 4090 to ~1,250 hours on an RTX 3080, depending on which GPU you use it on.
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+ 9 Good fit if you are:
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+ 10 • An indie / solo dev who wants cheap European GPU hours for fine-tuning, inference experiments, or rendering
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+ 11 • Comfortable provisioning Linux VMs from a console (not a managed notebook product like Colab)
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+ 12 • Happy with consumer-grade NVIDIA cards (RTX 3080/3090/4090) for the credit to stretch furthest
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+ 13 • Need EU data residency (Iceland / Norway / Germany region availability)
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+ 15 Probably skip if you:
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+ 16 • Want "click a button, get a Jupyter notebook" — Genesis Cloud is raw IaaS
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+ 17 • Need free credits without going through a referral link (the public site does not advertise an automatic signup credit anymore — going to genesiscloud.com directly may give you $0)
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+ 18 • Need datacenter-grade H100/H200 for free — $100 only buys ~62 H100 GPU-hours, still useful for a benchmark but not a real training run
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+ 24 1. Find a referral link first. Going to genesiscloud.com directly will create an account with no automatic free credit. To get the $100, you need to sign up via someone else's referral link (search "Genesis Cloud referral" — community sites like invitation.codes aggregate these).
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+ 25 2. Click the referral link, hit Sign Up, and enter email + password (or use Google SSO).
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+ 26 3. Verify your email via the confirmation link.
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+ 27 4. Add a payment method. A valid Visa or Mastercard is required before you can launch instances. Card is verified, not charged immediately. (See Genesis Cloud's payment method requirements support article.)
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+ 28 5. Launch your first instance. Pick a region (Iceland / Norway / US), pick a GPU type, choose an OS image (Ubuntu, etc.), boot it. The $100 referral credit is applied after you launch this first instance.
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+ 29 6. Verify the credit landed under Billing → Credits in the dashboard. If it didn't apply, contact support@genesiscloud.com referencing the referral link you used.
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+ 31 Important:
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+ 32 • The $100 credit is tied to the referral signup flow, not to the bare email signup
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+ 33 • Credit is granted after first instance creation, not at the email-confirmation stage
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+ 34 • One free credit per person / payment card / IP — multiple accounts will be flagged
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+ 40 GPUListed priceHours per $100
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+ 41 RTX 3080 (single GPU)~$0.08/h~1,250 hours
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+ 42 RTX 3090 (single GPU)$0.20/h~500 hours
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+ 43 RTX 4090 (single GPU)$0.55/h~180 hours
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+ 44 HGX H100 (per GPU)from $1.60/h~62 hours
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+ 45 HGX H200 / B200 (per GPU)from $2.80/h~35 hours
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+ 47 If the goal is to maximize wall-clock GPU time, run an RTX 3080 — it will outlast any other choice by a wide margin. If the goal is to try a real H100 for benchmarking, ~62 H100 GPU-hours is enough for a few short training runs or extensive inference profiling.
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+ 53 From the official Genesis Cloud pricing page:
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+ 55 • NVIDIA HGX B200 — 8x B200 180GB per node, multi-node InfiniBand fabric
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+ 56 • NVIDIA HGX H200 — 8x H200 141GB per node
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+ 57 • NVIDIA HGX H100 — 8x H100 SXM5 80GB per node
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+ 58 • NVIDIA RTX 4090 — single-GPU instances, consumer card, 24GB VRAM
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+ 59 • NVIDIA RTX 3090 — single-GPU instances, 24GB VRAM
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+ 60 • NVIDIA RTX 3080 — single-GPU instances, 10GB VRAM (Norway region)
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+ 62 All instances are full Linux VMs with OS-level access. No managed-notebook layer — bring your own Docker image / conda env / training script.
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+ 68 • Iceland — primary EU region, hydro+geothermal-powered (low-carbon)
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+ 69 • Norway — secondary EU region (RTX 3080 available here)
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+ 70 • United States — for North American latency
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+ 72 GDPR-friendly thanks to EU data residency. Useful if you need a non-US GPU cloud for European customers or research data.
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+ 78 • "166 hours" is marketing folklore from 2020-2022. Don't expect to find that exact number in the dashboard — it was just $50 / $0.30 = ~166 at the time. Today's actual offer is the $100 referral credit, which is more flexible.
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+ 79 • No automatic signup credit on the public funnel. If you sign up directly from genesiscloud.com without a referral link, you may receive $0. Always go through a referral.
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+ 80 • Credit card required upfront. Not pure-free: you must add a Visa/Mastercard before launching any instance.
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+ 81 • Credit expiry is at Genesis Cloud's discretion — there is no public hard expiry date for the referral credit, but treat it as "use within a few months" to be safe.
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+ 82 • Genesis Cloud is increasingly enterprise-focused (multi-node H100/H200/B200 deals). The self-serve console still works, but support replies and feature attention skew toward larger contracts.
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+ 83 • For a guaranteed always-free GPU, Google Colab / Kaggle / Lightning Studios are easier wins. Genesis Cloud is more useful when you need a real persistent VM with full root.
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+ 89 • Genesis Cloud Referral Program — once you have an account, your own referral link earns you $10 immediately and another $100 when each referred user spends their first $50 of real (non-credit) usage. Stackable; useful if you write a tutorial.
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+ 90 • Enterprise / Reserved capacity — for larger H100/H200/B200 deployments, contact sales for committed-use discounts (often 30-50% off on-demand).
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+ 94 Sources:
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+ 95 • Genesis Cloud — homepage
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+ 96 • Genesis Cloud — pricing
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+ 97 • Genesis Cloud — RTX 30-series GPUs
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+ 98 • Genesis Cloud Referral Links — support article
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+ 99 • Genesis Cloud — payment method requirements
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+ 100 • invitation.codes — Genesis Cloud referral aggregator
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+ 101 • Genesis Cloud blog — RTX 3080/3090 price reduction
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