ConoHa VPS
conoha.jp · 2 records in Compute, Storage · JSON
Records 2
- ★ qualifiesConoHa VPSUSD 4.86/month
Computeno free tieridentity cardphoneevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- fails: quotaconoha (jp) object storage
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
ConoHa VPS
Compute- Free allowance
- No free tier; the plans start at JPY 460 a month for 512 MB and JPY 763 a month for 1 GB
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- USD 4.86/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented10 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 | no free tier; the plans start at JPY 460 a month for 512 MB and JPY 763 a month for 1 GB unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The coupon is JPY 360 once, so it buys days rather than a month, and the server keeps billing after the coupon is gone unless it is deleted. |
| Binding | none neither traffic nor time binds: the 1 GB of RAM is what fails first, and the 512 MB plan at JPY 460 exists precisely because 1 GB is the useful floor |
| Identity | card email signup and a payment method: VISA, MasterCard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club, plus PayPal, Amazon Pay, convenience-store payment and bank transfer through the prepaid 'ConoHaチャージ' wallet. American Express and Diners Club are restricted to Japan residents, which implies the other cards and PayPal are not. No Japanese phone or ID step is documented on the payment or flow pages read; the signup form itself was not fetched |
| Egress | data transfer JPY 0 and 無制限 (unlimited) on the configuration examples on the plan page free allowance: unlimited |
| Retention | the instance persists while the monthly plan is paid; the page prints the renewal price beside the first-term price |
| Interface | rest REST API: an OpenStack-compatible public API (ConoHa VPS 3.0) for creating, deleting and resizing servers, documented at doc.conoha.jp; SSH public-key access to servers; the web control panel |
| Tooling | OpenStack CLI and a Terraform Provider, both documented by the provider; the public API reference is at doc.conoha.jp |
| Composes with | JPY 460 a month for 512 MB is the cheapest Japanese floor found, and the JPY 360 coupon is about 78 percent of one month on that plan, so the coupon is one free month at the bottom of the ladder rather than a trial of the useful sizes. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The site is Japanese only; the order flow was not walked. The 2 GB plan is JPY 1,007 first term and JPY 1,259 on renewal, so only the 1 GB row is under the line at renewal. |
| Evidence note | documented plan table and renewal prices from the plan page read; payment rails from the vendor's pricing and flow pages |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | vps.conoha.jp/campaign/freestart2026/ | the campaign page states, in Japanese, that a JPY 360 coupon is given to accounts newly registered from that page with a credit card registered, and publishes a table converting the coupon into free days per plan: about 11.5 days on 512 MB, 7.9 on 1 GB, 4.1 on 2 GB, 2.3 on 4 GB, 1.1 on 12 GB, 14.9 hours on 24 GB, 7.4 hours on 48 GB, 3.7 hours on 96 GB and 2.8 hours on 128 GB; GPU types are excluded; the campaign ended 2026-10-01 16:00 |
| 2026-10-22 | support.conoha.jp/common/faq/subscription-q/ | the support FAQ states, in Japanese, that there is no free trial service, and points to a referrer programme instead |
| 2026-10-22 | vps.conoha.jp/pricing/ | the pricing page gives the ladder in Japanese yen: 512 MB with 1 core and 30 GB SSD at JPY 460 a month on hourly billing, and 1 GB with 2 cores and 100 GB at JPY 763 a month |
| 2026-10-24 | vps.conoha.jp/ | quoted: 'メモリ 1 GB ... 763 円/月 更新時 763 円/月 - CPU 2コア - SSD 100GB' |
| 2026-10-24 | vps.conoha.jp/ | quoted: 'メモリ 512 MB ... 460 円/月 更新時 460 円/月 - CPU 1コア - SSD 30GB' |
| 2026-10-24 | vps.conoha.jp/ | quoted from the configuration table: 'データ転送量 0円 無制限' |
| 2026-10-24 | vps.conoha.jp/pricing/ | quoted: 'VISA / MasterCard / JCB / American Express / Diners Club 各種クレジットカードをご利用いただけます。' and 'American Express / Diners Club は日本国内に在住の方のみご利用いただけます。' and the PayPal and Amazon Pay options |
| 2026-11-04 | vps.conoha.jp/ | an OpenStack-compatible API is published |
| 2026-11-04 | vps.conoha.jp/ | the VPS FAQ states a public OpenStack-compatible API for server operations |
| 2026-11-04 | vps.conoha.jp/ | the FAQ states Terraform Provider support |
More fields 14
| facets | {"class": "regional-trial","free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit","shape": {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 0.5,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
|---|---|
| shape | {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 100,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
| billing model | monthly |
| term | monthly |
| m10h usd | 4.86 |
| m24h usd | 4.86 |
| price arithmetic | JPY 763 a month divided by the 2026-10-24 rate 156.839696 JPY/USD = USD 4.86; the page prints the same 763 on renewal |
| renewal usd | 4.86 |
| fx | {"pair": "USD/JPY","rate": 156.839696,"date": "2026-10-24","source": "open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD"} |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": true,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VPS that bills whether it runs or not"} |
| english | no; the site and console are Japanese only |
| payment methods | VISA, MasterCard, JCB (Amex and Diners for Japan residents only), PayPal, Amazon Pay, convenience store, bank transfer |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
conoha (jp) object storage
Storage- Free allowance
- ₩450/100 GB/mo = ¥4,500/TB = $28.50/TB.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | ₩450/100 GB/mo = ¥4,500/TB = $28.50/TB. Its headline pitch is 'unlimited capacity, free data transfer', which is true and irrelevant at 6x the floor. Requires a Japanese payment method. unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | support.conoha.jp/vps/faq/objectstorage-q/ | the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-21 | vps.conoha.jp/pricing/ | cited as the basis of the rejection: ₩450/100 GB/mo = ¥4,500/TB = $28.50/TB. Its headline pitch is 'unlimited capacity, free data transfer', which is true and irrelevant at 6x the floor. Requires a Japanese payment method. |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "₩450/100 GB/mo = ¥4,500/TB = $28.50/TB. Its headline pitch is 'unlimited capacity, free data transfer', which is true and irrelevant at 6x the floor. Requires a Japanese payment method.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field