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No cut-down demo.' Trial terms table...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":0,"free_unit":"hours"},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"vds-guru-trial","provider":"vds.guru","url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","category":"VPS","tier":"Free 24-hour trial on any VPS plan","free_tier":{"stated":"'The trial gets the same resources as the paid plan: KVM virtualization, NVMe disks, full root on VPS and a 1 Gbps port. No cut-down demo.' Trial terms table: 'Length | 24 hours', 'Cost | Free, no credit card needed', 'What you need to do | Sign up and verify your phone number via Telegram or WhatsApp — 30 seconds at most'.","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","read_on":"2026-10-24"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"one trial per account; the vendor 'reserves the right to refuse a trial period without providing a reason', citing suspicious account activity, resource shortage or staff workload"},"retention":{"stated":"'If you don't renew, the server is blocked automatically after 24 hours.' Renewing keeps the data: 'If the server suits you, renew the plan in the client area and it keeps running with the same data and settings'."},"egress":{"terms":"'10 TB of traffic per month on every VPS plan, from KVM-1 to KVM-MEGA. Once you exceed the limit, the port speed is limited to 100 Mbps; the server keeps running.'","metered":true,"free_allowance":"10 TB per month","source_url":"https://vds.guru/vds/"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"KVM guest with full root over SSH, a 1 Gbps port, one IPv4; the trial carries the same resources as the plan chosen. SMTP ports 25, 465 and 587 are blocked by default and unblocked only on request.","tooling":"any SSH client; a billing panel for the ticket and the trial request","chaining":"A real KVM guest with root and 1 Gbps for one day, no card, obtained by opening a ticket: enough to benchmark a host or run a migration rehearsal, not enough to be a node.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"24 hours, then the server is blocked automatically","source":"https://vds.guru/trial/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"10 TB a month of traffic on every plan, then the port is shaped to 100 Mbps","source":"https://vds.guru/vds/"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"a support ticket must be opened after phone verification, and the vendor may refuse","source":"https://vds.guru/trial/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"SMTP ports 25, 465 and 587 blocked by default on the trial","source":"https://vds.guru/trial/"}],"binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"Twenty-four hours is the whole offer; the machine is blocked automatically at the end and there is no free continuation.","identity_cost":{"kind":"any-phone","detail":"no card, no document, no email-only path: 'Sign up and verify your phone number via Telegram or WhatsApp — 30 seconds at most'. The page states 'No. Sign up in the client area, verify your phone number via Telegram or WhatsApp (30 seconds), then open a ticket asking for a trial.' It does not say which countries' numbers are accepted, so the kind is any-phone rather than country-phone.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed. The vendor states the trial can be refused without a reason, which is a capacity and staffing statement rather than an observed outage.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The 24-hour term, the no-card statement, the phone verification, the ticket route, the SMTP block and the 10 TB traffic term are all quoted from vds.guru's own trial and VPS pages read. The KVM-1 shape is quoted from the VPS page; the trial page does not repeat the shape, so the trial's exact allocation depends on which plan the ticket names.","evidence":[{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'The trial gets the same resources as the paid plan: KVM virtualization, NVMe disks, full root on VPS and a 1 Gbps port. No cut-down demo.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"trial terms table, quoted: '| Length | 24 hours |', '| Cost | Free, no credit card needed |', '| What you need to do | Sign up and verify your phone number via Telegram or WhatsApp - 30 seconds at most |'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'If you don't renew, the server is blocked automatically after 24 hours. Nothing is charged: there's no card on your account, so the trial commits you to nothing.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'SMTP Ports Blocked ... email sending ports (25, 465, 587) are blocked by default. Unblocking is possible only upon request with justification.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'the company reserves the right to refuse a trial period without providing a reason. This typically occurs due to suspicious account activity, a shortage of available resources, or high workload on our technical staff.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/vds/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'KVM-1 $ 10 /mo ✓ 1 GB RAM ✓ 15 GB NVMe SSD ✓ 1 Gbps port' and '10 TB of traffic per month on every VPS plan, from KVM-1 to KVM-MEGA. Once you exceed the limit, the port speed is limited to 100 Mbps; the server keeps running.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/vds/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Every plan comes with DDoS protection up to 20 Gbit/s, a 1 Gbps port with 10 TB of traffic, one IPv4 address and 24/7 support.'"},{"url":"https://vds.guru/trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"trial terms table, quoted: '| Length | 24 hours |', '| Cost | Free, no credit card needed |', '| What you need to do | Sign up and verify your phone number via Telegram or WhatsApp — 30 seconds at most |'"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:33:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"A genuine no-card VPS trial: full KVM, root, 1 Gbps, one day, no payment instrument at all. It is ranked below the always-free options because 24 hours is a benchmark window, not a machine. Two things are unverified. First, the trial's shape depends on which plan the ticket names, and the ticket is a human gate that can be refused. Second, whether the phone check accepts a number outside the vendor's home region is not stated. 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