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- Free allowance
- $5 of credit at signup on a $0.05-a-managed-step meter, with no monthly minimum and no card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate$0.05 a managed step; the first $5 is free, which is 100 steps
- 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 | $5 of credit at signup on a $0.05-a-managed-step meter, with no monthly minimum and no card unit mixed; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) $0.05 a managed step; the first $5 is free, which is 100 steps source
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| Identity | email 'No credit card, no subscription', quoted from coasty.ai/pricing read 2026-10-22 |
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| Egress | not published: https://coasty.ai/pricing meters $0.05 per managed step and states no egress allowance or overage price |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, ssh REST API with an OpenAPI schema, an MCP server (npx @coasty/mcp) and managed SSH and VNC credentials for machines; no CLI 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 pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the signup credit and the per-step rate. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | coasty.ai/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | coasty.ai/pricing | 'First $5 on us' and '$0.05 per managed step' and 'No monthly minimum' and '$25 of API credit every month' on the paid tier, quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | coasty.ai/pricing | pricing is per managed step; no egress allowance or overage price is published |
| 2026-11-03 | coasty.ai/docs/llms.txt | the REST API returns managed SSH credentials |
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": "the meter is per managed step, not per second, so an idle session costs nothing"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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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