Civo Compute
- Free allowance
- USD 250 in credits on signup: 'You are entitled to a Free Trial of the Services to a value of $250 for a period of thirty-one (31) calendar days'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 21.43/month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 250 of credit over 31 calendar days, one trial per customer
- 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 | USD 250 in credits on signup: 'You are entitled to a Free Trial of the Services to a value of $250 for a period of thirty-one (31) calendar days'. The trial is limited to one per customer. The Kubernetes control plane is free on every cluster; worker nodes bill from USD 0.007440 an hour for 1 core, 1 GB and 30 GB of NVMe. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the trial is 31 days and one per customer; instance quota is published only as an image and a default of 8 vCPU is reported, not documented |
| Binding | volume-quota the 31-day trial window and its USD 250 ceiling end before any per-hour rate limit is reached |
| Identity | card a card is required and must be verified before any instance or cluster exists: 'you need a valid payment method on file at all times, and won't be able to create Kubernetes clusters or instances before your card is verified'. The signup form itself asks only for a name, an email address and a password, and virtual or prepaid cards are refused |
| Egress | egress and ingress fees are free and unlimited, so there is no overage price free allowance: unlimited |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | cli the Civo CLI is documented; a documented API for the Civo cloud platform authenticated by an API key is also published |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The compute rate card is not linear in cores: Extra Large is 6 cores for $0.119048 while 2X Large is 8 cores for $0.238095, so two Extra Large instances cost the same as one 2X Large and carry 12 cores against 8. Billing rounds up to the full hour and a stopped instance still bills. |
| Evidence note | documented the signup page and the Service Terms were read on 2026-10-23: the signup page states USD 250 and the terms state the 31-day window and the one-trial limit. |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | www.civo.com/legal/terms | quoted: 'You are entitled to a Free Trial of the Services to a value of $250 for a period of thirty-one (31) calendar days' |
| 2026-10-23 | www.civo.com/pricing | quoted hourly: xSmall 1 GB/1 core/25 GB $0.007440, Small 2 GB/1 core/25 GB $0.014881, Medium 4 GB/2 cores/50 GB $0.029762, Large 8 GB/4 cores/100 GB $0.059524, Extra Large 16 GB/6 cores/150 GB $0.119048, 2X Large 32 GB/8 cores/200 GB $0.238095 |
| 2026-10-23 | www.civo.com/pricing | quoted: 'At Civo, we offer our new customers $250 of free credit for the first month you sign up.' and 'calculated hourly, rounding up to the next full hour' |
| 2026-11-04 | www.civo.com/pricing | egress is free and unlimited |
| 2026-11-04 | github.com/civo/cli | a CLI exists |
| 2026-11-04 | www.civo.com/api | a documented API exists |
More fields 15
| keep rate | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| billing model | flat-pool |
| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram": 1,"disk": 30,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "Extra Small; $250 covers 33,600 hours of it, which is 4.6 years at one node always on"} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap; a cluster bills per worker hour until the cluster is deleted"} |
| price note | a VPS bills by the month with an hourly rate capped at the monthly figure, so the two columns answer two questions: destroying the box between runs versus keeping it up. |
| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
| m10h usd | 8.93 |
| m24h usd | 21.43 |
| price basis | 10 h/day column = 300 h at the hourly rate, which is what a server destroyed between runs costs; 24/7 column = the monthly cap, because a VPS kept up all month stops at the cap. Rates re-read on the vendor pricing page on 2026-10-23. |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 3600,"rounding_s": null} |
| burst x | 2.0 |
| burst bill | min 1 h |
| ps | {"gib": 30,"price": "included in the worker size, NVMe","durability": "NVMe on the node","on_stop": false,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "the node's lifetime; a volume survives separately"} |
| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "any","static_ip": true,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null} |
| hourly usd | {"xSmall": 0.00744,"Small": 0.014881,"Medium": 0.029762,"Large": 0.059524,"Extra Large": 0.119048,"2X Large": 0.238095} |
Unknown values 6
- chaining: 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
Corrections
- 2026-10-23 Civo needs a verified card before it will create an instance