Yandex Cloud 60-Day Free Trial
Source: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/getting-started/free-trial/concepts/quickstart
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+ 1 Yandex Cloud's introductory free trial credits a one-time grant to your first billing account that is valid for 60 days. For non-residents of the Russian Federation the grant is at least $50 USD (split as $15 for Yandex Compute Cloud and $35 for everything else); residents get at least ₽4,000 incl. VAT. The grant covers most Yandex Cloud services (compute, object storage, databases, networking) plus the AI stack: Yandex Foundation Models / AI Studio (YandexGPT, Alice AI LLM, YandexART), SpeechKit, Vision, Translate, DataSphere.
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+ 3 This is a separate, much smaller offer than the Yandex Cloud Startup Program ($5K / $20K). Treat it as an evaluation/exploration budget, not as a runway for production.
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+ 9 1. Go to yandex.cloud/en and click "Get started for free".
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+ 10 2. Sign in with a Yandex ID (or create one with an email; Yandex ID is required even for non-Russian users).
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+ 11 3. Choose account type — Individual or Business / Legal entity. Non-residents can register either type; the trial period is enabled for the first billing account created.
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+ 12 4. Fill in personal/company details and accept the agreement.
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+ 13 5. Link a payment card during account creation — non-residents must use a non-Russian Visa or Mastercard (Russian-issued cards work only for residents; MIR is residents-only). A small temporary authorization hold is placed and refunded.
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+ 14 6. The billing account is created and the initial grant is automatically credited with a 60-day expiry.
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+ 15 7. Open the Yandex Cloud console and start launching resources.
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+ 17 Important caveats:
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+ 18 • Card MUST be linked at account creation. If you skip this step and link a card later, you will not get the initial grant — there is no manual recovery.
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+ 19 • One trial per person/company. Re-registering with the same identity, card, or phone is detected and the grant is not issued again.
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+ 20 • Geographic friction for non-Russians. The console UX, support, and many docs are Russian-first; English docs lag behind. KYC checks have been known to reject some non-CIS payment cards without a clear reason — be ready to try a different card or skip the offer.
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+ 21 • No free tier safety net after the trial. When the 60 days expire (or grant is exhausted), all your resources are blocked until you upgrade to pay-as-you-go. You cannot return to trial mode after upgrading.
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+ 22 • No SLA during the trial. Don't run anything you care about on it.
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+ 28 All of the following can be called from the trial grant via REST/gRPC API or from DataSphere notebooks. Pricing is in rubles internally; USD billing is converted at the time of usage.
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+ 32 ModelContextNotes
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+ 33 YandexGPT Pro 5.1 (Generation 5, current flagship)32K tokensDeep reasoning, document analysis, long-form synthesis
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+ 34 YandexGPT Lite 532K tokensLow-latency, chat UIs, high-throughput
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+ 35 Alice AI LLM—Newest flagship, head-to-head with YandexGPT Pro on complex tasks
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YandexGPT Pro / Lite earlier generations—Available via /deprecated URI segment for backward compatibility
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+ 37 Llama / Mistral / Saiga (open-source)variesHosted via DataSphere Foundation Models catalogue
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+ 40 • YandexART — text-to-image cascaded diffusion model (REST/gRPC, async).
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+ 43 • Yandex text embeddings (multilingual, callable via the same Foundation Models API).
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+ 46 • YandexGPT Vision — image input via the Foundation Models API.
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Model URIs use gpt://<folder_id>/<model>/<latest|rc|deprecated>. Source: Available generative models.
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+ 54 ServiceWhat you get during the trial
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+ 55 SpeechKitRussian + English STT/TTS; ~$5.10 / 1,000 minutes for STT
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+ 56 VisionOCR, classifier, face detection
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+ 57 Translate100+ language pairs
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+ 58 DataSphereManaged ML notebooks; serverless GPU fractions on-demand
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+ 59 Foundation Models APIAll YandexGPT / YandexART / embedding endpoints
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+ 65 Even after the trial ends, several Yandex Cloud services have a permanent monthly free tier that is not AI-focused but useful for hosting demos:
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+ 67 ServiceAlways-free monthly limit
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+ 68 Cloud Functions1,000,000 invocations + 10 GB·hour
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+ 69 Serverless Containers1,000,000 invocations + 10 GB·hour RAM + 5 vCPU·hour
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+ 70 API Gateway100,000 requests
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+ 71 Object Storage1 GB storage + 10K write ops + 100K read ops
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+ 72 YDB (serverless)1,000,000 operations + 1 GB
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+ 73 Cloud Logging5 GB ingest + 1 GB stored
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+ 74 Cloud DNS1,000,000 queries
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+ 75 Message Queue100,000 requests
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+ 76 Postbox2,000 outbound emails
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+ 77 SmartCaptcha250,000 requests
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+ 79 AI services (Foundation Models, SpeechKit, Vision) do not have an always-free tier — once the trial grant is gone, you pay per request.
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• Primary regions: ru-central1 (Moscow) — has GPU. Object Storage edges in CIS.
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+ 86 • New regions targeting Middle East (UAE) are being rolled out.
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+ 87 • Datacenters are in Russia, so latency from US/EU/Asia is 100-300 ms. Plan accordingly if you need a global front-end.
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+ 88 • Most Foundation Models are served from Moscow — there is no EU-resident Foundation Models endpoint.
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+ 94 • Sanctions / payment friction. Non-Russian Visa/Mastercard sometimes get rejected at sign-up; refunds for failed authorizations can take days. There is no PayPal / wire alternative for the trial.
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+ 95 • Russian-first UX. Console, support tickets and partner perks assume Russian. Translation gets you ~80% there.
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+ 96 • No grace period at trial end. Resources are blocked the moment the 60 days run out — back up data before that date.
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+ 97 • Privacy / jurisdiction. Data sits in Russian datacenters by default. Not appropriate for EU GDPR-regulated PII.
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+ 98 • Per-region GPU shortages. GPU quotas during the trial are tight; you usually need to file a quota increase ticket to get any meaningful GPU time, and tickets may stall for non-Russian customers.
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+ 104 • Want more than $50? Skip this trial entirely and apply directly for the Yandex Cloud Startup Program ($5K / 6 months for TRL 1-7, $20K / 12 months for TRL 8-9) — see yandex.cloud/en/cloud-credits-for-trial.
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+ 105 • Track your grant burn-rate in Billing → Grants in the console — there's no email warning before the 60 days lapse.
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+ 106 • Use the always-free serverless tier (Functions + YDB + Object Storage) for tiny demos that should outlive the 60-day window.
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+ 107 • DataSphere is the easiest way to call Foundation Models for non-Russian users — the notebook UI hides most of the IAM/folder boilerplate.
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+ 111 Sources:
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+ 112 • Yandex Cloud Free Trial — Quickstart
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+ 113 • Free Trial Grant Terms
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+ 114 • Free Trial Limits
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+ 115 • Trial vs Commercial — Q&A
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+ 116 • Payment Methods for Individuals
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+ 117 • Yandex Cloud Always-Free Tier
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+ 118 • Yandex AI Studio — Available Generative Models
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+ 119 • Yandex Cloud Startup Credits ($5K / $20K)
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