Cabinet Resolution No. 581: universities, research organisations and startups get free access to the Digital Ministry's AI computing power — up to 10 million tokens a month for six months

Socially significant artificial intelligence projects will be able to use the computing power and data of the Ministry of Digital Technologies free of charge or at a discount. Access is granted through a competition held twice a year.

The procedure was approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 581 of 20 October 2026. The document has been published in the National Legislation Database. The next selection round is scheduled for November.

Who can get access

• higher education institutions and research organisations;
• startups;
• khokims' advisers on digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

The project must be socially significant. The capacity may be used to train, test and validate AI models, run computations and perform analytics.

What is offered

• API access to large language models — free up to 10 million tokens per calendar month, for up to six months;
• above the limit — up to another 50 million tokens at a 50% discount on the tariff;
• unused tokens do not roll over to the next month;
• for training and testing other models — up to 120 GB of GPU memory for up to six months.

Selection and restrictions

The competition is held twice a year, in July and November, and applications are scored on a 100-point scale. Participants who disagree with the results may appeal within three working days, and the commission reviews the appeal within five working days at most.

• a user may run only one project on the subsidised capacity;
• data obtained may not be passed to third parties or used commercially.

What this means in practice. If you are a university, research organisation or startup working on a socially significant AI project, prepare an application for the November competition. Make sure in advance that you are applying with a single project that does not involve commercial resale of data: this is a condition of access. Keep an eye on the appeal deadline — only three working days after the results are announced.

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