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- Free allowance
- $20 in free usage, no card: $5 at signup and $15 when the first sandbox is ready
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate$20 of credit: $5 at signup and $15 when the first sandbox is ready
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | $20 in free usage, no card: $5 at signup and $15 when the first sandbox is ready unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) $20 of credit: $5 at signup and $15 when the first sandbox is ready source
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| Identity | email 'No card required' for the $20 in free usage, quoted from argalabs.com read 2026-10-22 |
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| Egress | not published: neither https://www.archal.ai/ nor https://docs.archal.ai/ states an egress allowance or an overage price; usage is metered per ready environment |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, cli REST endpoints per environment, the archal CLI (npm), a TypeScript client and MCP; no SSH interface is documented |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the product page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the split credit and the no-card condition. The record's USD 20 figure was right; the split and the trigger were missing |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | www.archal.ai/ | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | www.archal.ai/ | 'Get $20 in free usage. No card required. $5 arrives upon sign up and the remaining $15 when your first sandbox is ready.' and 'Changes persist across tool calls, then reset to the same baseline', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.archal.ai/ | usage is metered per ready environment; no egress or data-transfer meter is stated |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.archal.ai/ | the sandbox is reached by CLI, TypeScript client, MCP or REST |
More fields 5
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a sandbox resets to its baseline between runs; the page states no clock"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "not stated on this page","durability": "state persists across tool calls then resets to baseline","on_stop": false,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "the sandbox's baseline"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field