Freestyle
- Free allowance
- No cash credit. The Free plan includes 'Hour of vCPU ...
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 13.32/month
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota200 vCPU-hours, 400 GiB-hours of memory and 60,000 GiB-hours of storage a month; 50 GB of data transfer a month on Free
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | No cash credit. The Free plan includes 'Hour of vCPU ... 200 per month', 'Hour of GiB Memory ... 400 per month', 'Hour of GiB Storage ... 60,000 per month' and 'GB of Data Transfer ... 50 free'. 'On Free, allowances are hard stops rather than paid overage.' unit hours; metered on wall-clock; An allowance that resets monthly, worth about USD 13.22 at the vendor's own rates, and a hard stop when it runs out. This is not a USD 100 credit. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Allowances are hard stops: the VM does not throttle, it stops. |
| Binding | volume-quota 200 vCPU-hours is 27% of the 730 vCPU-hours a single 1 vCPU box needs for a month, so the monthly allowance is the constraint, not the shape. |
| Identity | email No card is mentioned for the Free plan; the pricing page lists Free, Hobby and Pro with no payment requirement for Free. No hold exists because no payment method is taken on Free. |
| Egress | 'GB of Data Transfer | $0.02 | 50 free, 500 on paid'; Free includes 50 GB a month. free allowance: 50 GB a month price per tb: USD 20 per TB |
| Per-object cap | Free plan limits: 'Max vCPUs per VM | 4 vCPUs', 'Max Memory per VM | 8 GiB', 'Max Disk per VM | 32 GiB', 'Concurrent VMs | 10', 'Saved VMs | 10'. |
| Retention | Free has no persistent VMs and no persistent snapshots ('Persistent Snapshots | ✗'); saved VMs are capped at 10. |
| Interface | rest, cli API and CLI; a fixed set of VM sizes on Free |
| Tooling | SDK and CLI; saved VMs and snapshots on paid plans only |
| Composes with | the only free allowance here stated in vCPU-hours with a hard stop, which makes the monthly ceiling arithmetic exact |
| Reliability | A Free VM that hits the monthly allowance stops with no overage path, and Free has no persistent VM, so state has to be snapshotted or rebuilt. |
| Notes | A 4 vCPU box lasts 50 hours. The allowance is worth USD 8.06 of vCPU plus USD 5.16 of memory at list, so about USD 13.22 a month, not USD 100. |
| Evidence note | documented Allowances, per-VM caps, the hard-stop rule and the transfer allowance are on the pricing page read. Not established: whether a Free VM is destroyed at the allowance or merely stopped. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.freestyle.sh/pricing | USD 0.04032 per vCPU-hour with 200 a month included; USD 0.0129 per GiB-hour with 400 included; USD 0.02/GB with 50 free |
| 2026-10-22 | www.freestyle.sh/pricing | Free column: 10 concurrent VMs, Persistent VMs forbidden, Persistent Snapshots forbidden, custom sizing forbidden, 4 vCPU and 32 GiB disk maximum |
| 2026-10-22 | www.freestyle.sh/pricing | on Free the allowances are hard stops rather than paid overage |
| 2026-10-22 | boat.dev/compare | a competitor's comparison table lists Freestyle at USD 0.264 per hour for a 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 50 GB machine, with list prices dated 2026-09-26; this is a reported rate about a third party and not a reading of the vendor's own page |
| 2026-10-24 | www.freestyle.sh/pricing | quoted: 'Hour of vCPU | $0.04032 | 200 per month', 'Hour of GiB Memory | $0.0129 | 400 per month', 'Hour of GiB Storage | $0.000086 | 60,000 per month', 'GB of Data Transfer | $0.02 | 50 free, 500 on paid', 'On Free, allowances are hard stops rather than paid overage.', 'Persistent VMs | ✗', 'Max vCPUs per VM | 4 vCPUs', 'Max Memory per VM | 8 GiB'. |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 32,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
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| billing model | per-second against a monthly allowance |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 1,"rounding_s": 1} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no published wall-clock cap; the monthly vCPU-hour allowance caps total uptime at 200 h for a 1 vCPU box"} |
| keep rate | {"value": null,"basis": "not stated; a saved VM exists on paid plans only","source": "https://www.freestyle.sh/pricing"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 32,"price_gib_month": "USD 0.000086 per GiB-hour","durability": "none on Free","survives_stop": false,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "the VM lifetime"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| free tier kind | monthly-allowance |
| m10h usd | 5.55 |
| m24h usd | 13.32 |
| price arithmetic | 1 vCPU x 0.04032 + 1 GiB x 0.0129 = 0.05322/h; x 730 = 38.85 a month at list; allowance covers 200 h of that, i.e. 27.4% |
| allowance arithmetic | 200 vCPU-h / 2 vCPU = 100 h of this shape a month, which is 3.3 h a day |
| price note | gross rate before the 200 vCPU-hour and 400 GiB-hour monthly allowances. |
| price basis | 10 h/day x 30 = 300 h; 24/7 x 30 = 730 h |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| crosscheck | {"boat_compare_2026-09-26": "USD 0.264/h at 4 vCPU / 8 GB"} |
| shape max | {"vcpu": 4,"ram_gib": 8,"disk_gib": 32} |
| term | monthly |
| credit usd | 0 |
| allowance value usd | 13.22 |
| credit months at shape | 0.27 |
| credit hours at shape | 200 |
| credit expiry | resets monthly; unused hours do not carry |