- Free allowance
- 0 EUR a month for life: 1 GB of SSD, 256 MB of RAM, a quarter of a CPU, 3 days of backups
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda long-running service on the free plan risks suspension
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | 0 EUR a month for life: 1 GB of SSD, 256 MB of RAM, a quarter of a CPU, 3 days of backups unit GB; metered on stored-bytes; the vendor states 1 GB, a decimal unit; kept as stated |
|---|
| Price | none stated |
|---|
| Limits | - volume-quota 1 GB of disk including files, mail and databases source
- write-gated (binding) a long-running service on the free plan risks suspension source
- retention-clamped free profiles suspended after 120 days without an admin-interface login (6 months for 1-4 year old profiles, yearly after 4 years) source
- per-ip-shaping without a card, HTTP processing is filtered more strictly and SMTP sending may be throttled source
a 24/7 service on the free plan risks suspension, which makes it a relay endpoint rather than a node |
|---|
| Binding | write-gated the free plan's footnote forbids running services, so a daemon or a listener is out of scope regardless of the 256 MB of RAM. |
|---|
| Identity | email email signup, no card required to hold the free plan. A card is what lifts restricted mode: 'fill-in your credit card details in your means of payment area (even if you have a free account)'. No hold is stated because no payment is taken on the free plan; the restriction is throttling, not a charge. |
|---|
| Egress | not published as a volume; the restricted-mode page states that without a card, HTTP requests are filtered more strictly and outbound SMTP may be limited in quantity and time |
|---|
| Retention | a free profile must connect to the administration interface every 120 days while it is less than a year old; otherwise the profile is suspended (120 days) |
|---|
| Interface | ssh SSH to the account user, plus a web panel and an API |
|---|
| Tooling | SSH, the alwaysdata admin panel and API, scheduled tasks |
|---|
| Composes with | a French shared host with a 1 GB disk and a 120-day login clock |
|---|
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
|---|
| Notes | Worth recording because it looks like the answer and is not: 1 GB and SSH for 0 EUR, ruled out by one sentence in the footnote. It remains usable as a place to serve a static site or run a cron-driven script, if the script is not a service. |
|---|
| Evidence note | documented the suspension clock and the restricted-mode rules from its help pages. All read. |
|---|
| Parsed numbers | - price USD 0 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 0 / month
- has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 1 GB
|
|---|