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- Free allowance
- €30 of free credits to start; RAM is billed on use rather than on provisioned size, and machines suspend, resume and hibernate
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate€30 of credits at signup, one time
- Evidence
- documented6 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 | €30 of free credits to start; RAM is billed on use rather than on provisioned size, and machines suspend, resume and hibernate unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) €30 of credits at signup, one time source
not stated |
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| Identity | card a payment method is added to receive the €30 of credits; the page states nothing is charged when it is added |
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| Egress | not published: the rate card prices vCPU-hours, RAM and disk only and states no egress allowance or overage |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | ssh, cli, rest SSH, the boxd CLI with --json output, and an API with API keys |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. The credit is one-time and denominated in euro, so the unit is mixed |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | boxd.sh/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | boxd.sh/pricing | 'Credit-based. RAM bills on what is in use and disk on what you have written to, not on what you provisioned. Start with €30 of free credits.' and 'Suspend, resume, and hibernate', quoted |
| 2026-11-04 | boxd.sh/llms.txt | SSH access |
| 2026-11-04 | boxd.sh | a CLI and an API exist |
| 2026-11-04 | boxd.sh/pricing | the full rate card has three rows and no network row |
| 2026-11-04 | boxd.sh/pricing | the €30 credit is released by adding a payment method |
More fields 7
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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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": "suspend, resume and hibernate are offered; the page states no automatic reap interval"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": "disk bills on bytes written, not on provisioned size","durability": "suspend and hibernate keep the machine","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "not stated"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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Unknown values 8
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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