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- Free allowance
- A USD 5 starting credit, not a free tier: the pricing page's own meta description says 'Start free with $5 credit'.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | A USD 5 starting credit, not a free tier: the pricing page's own meta description says 'Start free with $5 credit'. A product page adds, as rendered by a search index rather than read, 'Your $5 starting credit covers the first stretch; we only ask for a card when it runs low.' unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The categorical limit is the catalogue: of 49 apps, none is Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or a torrent client, so the price never applies to the pipeline is pricing. |
| Binding | none Nothing binds at 1 TiB/month because no app in the catalogue streams media; the limit is fit, not quota. |
| Identity | email Account with the USD 5 credit; a card is added only 'when it runs low', so a trial can start without payment details. |
| Egress | 'No bandwidth charges for normal use' - an unmetered claim with no published figure and no definition of 'normal'. free allowance: not published |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: apps and their disks, not objects |
| Retention | data persists while the app is paid for; 'Daily backups with one-click restore' is included on every tier |
| Interface | rest, sftp A control panel per app; 'SFTP access to your data', 'Automatic HTTPS + custom domains', 'Resize up or down, prorated'. Prices drawn hourly from a prepaid balance. |
| Tooling | the catalogue is managed images: 'A deliberately short list. Every app here runs well on our platform' - 49 apps at the read date, and the media stack is not among them. |
| Composes with | The cheapest managed host found per app, useful for the non-media half of a stack (Homarr, Vaultwarden, Uptime Kuma, RSS) at USD 1.50-6.30; it cannot carry Plex, Jellyfin or the *arr apps. |
| Reliability | New and small: an Australian vendor with three regions (Australia, United States, Poland), hourly billing and no track record found. Poland is 25 percent cheaper, which suggests capacity is being bought where it is cheap. |
| Notes | It is the evidence that the media apps, not the hosting, are the expensive part. |
| Evidence note | documented The pricing and catalogue pages were read and the tier prices are quoted from them. The per-app pages are client-rendered and returned no readable content (a Prowlarr page came back as 2 words), so the card-deferral sentence comes from a search index's rendering. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | corehost.io/pricing | Lite $1.50 / Standard $2.30 / Power $3.90 / Scale $6.30 per month; Poland at $1.10/$1.70/$2.90/$4.70; 'Start free with $5 credit'; 'No bandwidth charges for normal use'; daily backups, SFTP, custom domains, hourly draw |
| 2026-10-23 | corehost.io/apps | the full catalogue is 49 apps - Activepieces, Audiobookshelf, Homarr, Immich, Navidrome, Vaultwarden, WordPress and similar - with no Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, Plex, Jellyfin or Emby |
More fields 2
| catalogue size | 49 |
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| regions | Australia, United States, Poland |