CreateOS Sandbox (NodeOps)
- Free allowance
- 500 free credits to start; a sandbox auto-pauses after 5 minutes idle with memory and disk preserved and compute billing stopped
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rate500 free credits at signup
- 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 | 500 free credits to start; a sandbox auto-pauses after 5 minutes idle with memory and disk preserved and compute billing stopped unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | egress is unmetered at $0 at any volume; outbound traffic is firewalled to an allowlist and there is no ingress by default free allowance: unlimited price per tb: $0 |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, cli REST API, CLI, a TypeScript SDK and MCP; no Python SDK |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the sandbox page was read on 2026-10-22. The 500-credit grant is one-time; the 5-minute auto-pause is the wall-clock axis and it preserves state, which is the unusual half |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | createos.sh/products/sandbox | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | createos.sh/products/sandbox | '500 free credits to start.' and 'Idle 5 min → paused, disk + memory preserved' with 'A paused sandbox is a Firecracker snapshot on disk: guest memory and device state are frozen, and compute billing stops', quoted |
| 2026-11-04 | createos.sh/products/sandbox | SDK, CLI, MCP and REST API |
| 2026-11-04 | createos.sh/products/sandbox | egress is not charged |
More fields 8
| keep rate | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| keep rate basis | first-party: PAUSED sandboxes stop vCPU billing but KEEP billing RAM at $0.01159025/GB-h |
| billing model | unclassified |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": 300,"restart_required": false,"note": "auto-pause at 5 minutes idle; the snapshot restores guest memory and device state, so the clock costs wall time but not work"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": "not published on this page","durability": "Firecracker snapshot on disk","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "until deleted"} |
| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
| burst x | 1.0 |
Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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