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- Free allowance
- No free tier: Mac hardware from CHF 0.27 an hour or CHF 199 a month, with a 24-hour minimum allocation and billing while the device is stopped
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddata is deleted after a period
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | no free tier: Mac hardware from CHF 0.27 an hour or CHF 199 a month, with a 24-hour minimum allocation and billing while the device is stopped unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) not published source
- request-rate CHF 0.27 an hour or CHF 199 a month source
- per-ip-shaping 20 TB of outbound traffic a month is included; inbound and internal traffic is free source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the Mac bare-metal pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the hourly rate, the 24-hour minimum, that a stopped device still bills, and the 20 TB egress allowance. The record's USD 24 credit is not on the page |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 0
- per-ip-shaping 20 TB
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | doc.flow.swiss/platform/pricing/mac-bare-metal | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | doc.flow.swiss/platform/pricing/mac-bare-metal | 'Billing is per hour with a 24-hour minimum allocation period to comply with the Apple macOS License Agreement. Billing also takes place when the device is' stopped, 'Starting at CHF 0.27/hr or CHF 199/mo', 'Each Mac device comes with a free elastic public IPv4 address' and '20 TB of outbound traffic per month is included', quoted |
More fields 8
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": "Apple Silicon","gpu_count": 1,"note": "Mac mini and Mac Studio on demand, with instant activation"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": 1440,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a 24-hour minimum allocation forced by Apple's licence, and a stopped device still bills, so stopping is not a pause"} |
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| free tier kind | none |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 86400,"rounding_s": null} |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "SSD priced as a separate line","durability": "SSD on the device","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "the allocation"} |
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| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "a free elastic public IPv4 per device","static_ip": true,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "20 TB a month outbound per organisation account"} |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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