Weights & Biases doubles academic cloud storage to 200GB for free research tier
What happened
Between the May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026 captures of Weights & Biases's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Academic research program free cloud storage increased from 100GB to 200GB; description updated from 'Unlimited tracking hours, teams, projects and 100GB' to 'Unlimited projects, teams, and 200GB'. Pulse files it as a packaging change (limit increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists Pro at $60.
It lands 35 days after Weights & Biases's previous change, "Weights & Biases unlocks unlimited tracked hours on Pro plan" (Apr 13, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Weights & Biases Moves CI/CD Automations and Alerts to Free Tier" (Apr 4, 2026) and "Weights & Biases moves CI/CD automations and Slack alerts to free tier" (Mar 26, 2026). Weights & Biases has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Comet also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Academic · LimitReworded
BeforeUnlimited tracking hours, teams, projects and 100GB
AfterUnlimited projects, teams, and 200GB
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic | Limit | Unlimited tracking hours, teams, projects and 100GB | Unlimited projects, teams, and 200GB | Reworded |
Values as written on Weights & Biases's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Weights & Biases's pricing page (wandb.ai) from May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Unlimited tracking hours, teams, projects and 100GB" becomes "Unlimited projects, teams, and 200GB".
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Weights & Biases, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 5, 2026packagingWeights & Biases: Sandboxes pricing hidden; Enterprise ingestion fee revealed ($0.20/MB)
- Jul 13, 2026packagingWeights & Biases pulls Emergent Foundation Model Program from pricing page
- Jul 7, 2026improvedW&B: ARIA AI agent added with token-based pricing
- May 18, 2026improvedWeights & Biases doubles academic cloud storage to 200GB for free research tier · this change
- Apr 13, 2026improvedWeights & Biases unlocks unlimited tracked hours on Pro plan
- Apr 4, 2026packagingWeights & Biases Moves CI/CD Automations and Alerts to Free Tier
- Mar 26, 2026improvedWeights & Biases moves CI/CD automations and Slack alerts to free tier
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- CometApr 27Comet adds free Ollie coding harness trial to Cloud plan
- CometApr 9Comet caps free Cloud plan at 10 members, Pro at 50
- CometJul 2Comet: team member limits reduced + new Ollie AI coding harness (Free Cloud)
- CometMay 20Comet expands evaluation metrics to 30+ and optimization algorithms to 8+
- CometJan 14Comet Pro Plan Price Decreased by 22% and Capacity Increased to 1500 Training Hours
Questions about this change
Did Weights & Biases raise prices in May 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: limit increase.
What changed on Weights & Biases's pricing page between May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026?
Academic limit: Unlimited tracking hours, teams, projects and 100GB → Unlimited projects, teams, and 200GB, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on May 11, 2026 and May 18, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Weights & Biases change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 3 other pricing-page changes for Weights & Biases in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Weights & Biases unlocks unlimited tracked hours on Pro plan" on Apr 13, 2026; Weights & Biases has been tracked since 2024-10-01.