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Free to start.
myresearchcloud.ca is Computing for Humanity's nonprofit research cloud: secure, Canadian-hosted CPU, GPU, and storage, free for small workloads and affordable at scale for funded projects.
Free to start
Small workloads run free on myresearchcloud.ca — no institutional affiliation or funding required to get started.
Affordable at scale
Funded and academic projects scale up on Canadian-hosted infrastructure priced to stay within reach of a research budget.
BEYOND THE CLOUD
For researchers connected to large-scale collaborative platforms, CFH also contributes capacity to international distributed computing projects including World Community Grid, Open Science Grid, GPUGrid, BOINC-based projects, Folding@Home, and Rosetta@Home.
How We Compare with Research Computing Providers
myresearchcloud.ca gives researchers, students, nonprofits, and citizen scientists free, Canadian-hosted compute and GPU power — no institutional affiliation, no waitlist. Need more as your project grows? Academic Pricing adds guaranteed support and capacity, without the paywalls or red tape typical of national programs, university HPC, or commercial cloud.
Open by default
No proposal, no waitlist. Start on the Free Tier today — scale to Academic Pricing when you're ready.
Alongside DRAC
We complement DRAC's mission, extending free-tier access to the citizen scientists and nonprofits outside its mandate.
vs. University HPC Centres
Great if you're affiliated — harder if you're not. myresearchcloud.ca is open to any Canadian researcher or student, no exceptions.
vs. Commercial Cloud Providers
Powerful, but every tier costs and pricing gets complex fast.
How We Compare on Cost
Public cloud pricing looks affordable — until storage, support, and egress fees get added in. myresearchcloud.ca offers transparent, predictable CPU and GPU pricing with no hidden fees. Start on the Free Tier, then scale into Academic Pricing built for research budgets — see how the numbers compare below.
$20/month
Per dedicated vCPU
vs. $45–85 from commercial cloud providers — up to 76% less.
$160/month
8 vCPU / 32 GB RAM research VM, 1-year term
vs. $307+ from commercial cloud providers — ~48% less.
$199/month
NVIDIA A2 GPU (16 GB VRAM), 1-year term
vs. $270–300 from commercial cloud providers — ~30% less.
$389/month
NVIDIA L4 GPU (24 GB VRAM), 1-year term
vs. $500–600 from commercial cloud providers — ~29% less.
Commercial cloud figures reflect normalized, apples-to-apples estimates for equivalent dedicated (1:1 physical core / non-shared GPU) capacity, comparable storage replication, and sustained committed-use terms — not entry-level shared/burstable pricing.
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