what is the GPU quota limit for free edition?

[rakeshdey]

what is the GPU quota limit for free edition? I used 5 minutes few days back now can not attach GPU cluster, it showing quota exceeded

[iyashk-DB]

Free Edition doesn't publish an exact GPU quota number like "X GPU hours per day." What you're hitting is Databricks' fair use throttling: once your workspace crosses its usage threshold, compute gets shut off for the rest of the day, and in harsher cases for the rest of the month, then comes back automatically once the limit resets. Your notebooks and data stay intact the whole time, it's only compute that pauses.

Given you only ran a GPU cluster for 5 minutes, a couple things could explain it:

If this is the first time you've hit the block, it's most likely just the daily reset. Wait a day and try attaching again.

Serverless GPU on Free Edition is also capacity constrained on top of your own usage. Databricks' own docs say it's "subject to available capacity," so you can see a quota style error even without burning much usage yourself, if the shared GPU pool is busy right then.

[Ashwin_DSA]

Hi @rakeshdey,

On Databricks Free Edition, GPU access is not governed by a publicly documented fixed numeric quota. Instead, Free Edition is subject to a fair-usage policy, and if a user exceeds their quota, compute resources can be shut down and become unavailable until the limit resets.

More specifically, the Free Edition limitations page says that Free Edition includes limited serverless GPU compute, available from the notebook compute selector and subject to available capacity.

It also states that Free Edition users only have access to serverless compute, and that custom compute configurations are not supported.

So if you previously used a few minutes of GPU and now see "quota exceeded" when trying to attach GPU compute, the most likely explanation is that you've hit the current Free Edition fair-use limit for GPU/serverless usage and need to wait for the quota window to reset.

Please note that the Free Edition is a limited personal-use offering, whereas the Databricks free trial is a better option for evaluating the full platform capabilities.

If this answer resolves your question, could you mark it as “Accept as Solution”? That helps other users quickly find the correct fix.

[rakeshdey]

I have opened the 14 days trial version , still not able to do this .. have not used any compute yet..  

[Ashwin_DSA]

Hi @rakeshdey,

What you’re seeing appears to be a trial limitation/feature availability issue, not a usage quota issue. Your screenshot shows the message “AI Runtime is not available in trial,” which indicates the workspace currently does not have access to AI Runtime.

The public docs also note that AI Runtime is a preview feature and requires supported regions plus workspace/admin enablement.

In addition, the free trial docs mention that some trial accounts... especially those created with personal email addresses... may have no GPU access.

So this is likely not about prior usage, but about the specific trial workspace not being eligible/enabled for GPU-backed AI Runtime.

If this answer resolves your question, could you mark it as “Accept as Solution”? That helps other users quickly find the correct fix.