Hopx
- Free allowance
- USD 200 in free credits with no credit card required, described as 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 49.41/month
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 200 one-time free credits; rate card USD 0.000014 per vCPU-second, USD 0.0000045 per GiB-second, USD 0.00000003 per GiB-second of storage
- Evidence
- documented18 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 | USD 200 in free credits with no credit card required, described as 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage'. No feature gates: 'Unlimited sandboxes', 'All pre-built templates'. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; A one-time balance spent per second. No reset and no expiry date is published. The terms page states credits 'may expire under posted program rules' without posting a rule. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Every sandbox can carry a timeout and is destroyed when it expires. The SDK signature gives timeout_seconds a default of 'no timeout', the docs illustrate 5 minutes to 4 hours, and the marketing page claims 'Up to 30 days runtime'. No page states a maximum, so whether a 730-hour timeout is accepted is undocumented. |
| Binding | volume-quota The credit is the only published bound on duration, and at the smallest published shape it lasts 123 days of 24/7, so the first thing to fail is the balance, not the platform. |
| Identity | email The pricing page states 'No credit card required' and '$200 free credits'; no card, no phone and no ID are mentioned. IMPORTANT: the console at console.hopx.ai (and console.hopx.dev, which the docs link to) offers ONLY 'Connect to HopX with: Google GitHub' — a browser OAuth button pair, with no email-and-password field anywhere on the page. The account is therefore created by an OAuth identity, not by an email form. No hold exists because no payment method is taken. |
| Egress | No egress charge or allowance is published on the pricing page; the page prices compute, memory and storage only. |
| Per-object cap | Resources are set by the template, not the caller: 'Resources (vcpu, memory, disk) are always loaded from the template. You cannot specify custom resources when creating a sandbox.' A custom template can be built at 'CPU: 1-64 cores, Memory: 512MB-64GB, Disk: 1GB-250GB'. |
| Retention | A sandbox is destroyed when its timeout expires, and 'All data in the sandbox is lost'; pause and resume preserve state, and a stopped sandbox keeps its filesystem. No retention period for a stopped sandbox is published. |
| Interface | rest, cli REST API, CLI (hopx) and SDKs (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), documented; the web console issues the API key. |
| Tooling | hopx CLI (hopx auth, with OAuth login and API key commands); SDKs hopx_ai (Python) and @hopx-ai/sdk (JavaScript/TypeScript); the REST API directly. |
| Composes with | not stated |
| Reliability | The pricing page's own worked example prices a 1 vCPU / 1 GiB / 10 GiB hour at '$0.05', while its rate card gives USD 0.06768 for the same hour, a 26% understatement. |
| Notes | Arithmetic, recomputed today: 1 vCPU x USD 0.0504 + 1 GiB x USD 0.0162 + 10 GiB x USD 0.00108 = USD 0.06768 an hour. USD 200 / 0.06768 = 2,955.1 h = 123.1 days of a 1 vCPU / 1 GiB / 10 GiB box at 24/7, and a 730-hour month costs USD 49.41. The vendor's '~4,000 hours' headline counts the vCPU rate only and is 35% optimistic against its own rate card; the record uses the rate card. The vendor's own worked example also understates the same hour at '$0.05' against USD 0.06768. This is the most hours per no-card dollar of the three by a factor of four over E2B and of two and a half over Daytona at its max shape, but the box is 1 vCPU against Daytona's 4, so it is not a faster machine, only a longer-lived one. GPU trap: none to check, because no GPU product is advertised on the pricing page; the rate card is CPU only. The real caveat is identity: the console offers Google and GitHub OAuth ONLY, with no email form, so the account is tied to a Google or GitHub identity rather than an email address. Not published anywhere: the maximum template shape, the maximum timeout, the credit expiry, and any egress allowance. The 30-day runtime claim on the long-running-jobs page is marketing; the docs' own example tops out at 4 hours and no page states a ceiling, so a 730-hour timeout is untested. |
| Evidence note | documented Credit, the three unit rates, the OAuth-only console, the template-bound resources and the timeout semantics were each read on a first-party page. The maximum shape and the maximum timeout are not published. |
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Evidence 18
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | hopx.ai/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | hopx.ai/pricing | 'No subscriptions. No minimum commitments. No idle charges. Launch sandboxes in milliseconds, pay by the second, scale to zero when done.' with 'No credit card required, $200 free credits', 'Compute (vCPU) $0.00001400/second', 'Memory (GiB) $0.00000450/second', 'Storage (GiB) $0.00000003/second' and 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage', quoted |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/pricing | quoted: 'No credit card required', '$200 free credits', 'Compute (vCPU) $0.00001400/second', 'Memory (GiB) $0.00000450/second', 'Storage (GiB) $0.00000003/second', 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage', and the example '1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB storage ... $0.05'. |
| 2026-10-24 | docs.hopx.ai/core-concepts/sandboxes/creating.md | quoted: 'Resources (vcpu, memory, disk) are always loaded from the template. You cannot specify custom resources when creating a sandbox. To use different resources, create a custom template first.' |
| 2026-10-24 | docs.hopx.ai/core-concepts/sandboxes/timeout.md | quoted: 'Sandboxes can be configured with automatic timeout values that determine when they are automatically destroyed'; 'When a timeout expires, the sandbox is automatically destroyed. All data in the sandbox is lost.' |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/pricing | quoted: 'No credit card required $200 free credits Cancel anytime' and the rate card '$0.00001400/second' per vCPU, '$0.00000450/second' per GiB of memory, '$0.00000003/second' per GiB of storage |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/pricing | quoted: 'No credit card required', '$200 free credits', 'Compute (vCPU) $0.00001400/second', 'Memory (GiB) $0.00000450/second', 'Storage (GiB) $0.00000003/second', 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage', 'Unlimited sandboxes', 'All pre-built templates', and the worked example '1 hour of sandbox runtime / 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB storage / $0.05' |
| 2026-10-24 | console.hopx.ai | there is no email input. |
| 2026-10-24 | docs.hopx.ai/core-concepts/sandboxes/timeout.md | quoted: 'When a timeout expires, the sandbox is automatically destroyed. All data in the sandbox is lost.' with examples at 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour and 4 hours and no stated maximum |
| 2026-10-24 | docs.hopx.ai/core-concepts/templates/configuration.md | quoted: '# Resource limits depend on your plan / # Typical ranges: / # - CPU: 1-64 cores / # - Memory: 512MB-64GB / # - Disk: 1GB-250GB' |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/use-cases/long-running-jobs/ | quoted: 'No credit card required Up to 30 days runtime Pay per second' and 'Run Jobs for Hours or Days — No Timeouts' |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/features/preview-urls/ | quoted: 'Expose any port via public URLs instantly. No tunnels, no configuration' with the example 'https://8080-abc123.us-east.vms.hopx.dev/' |
| 2026-10-24 | hopx.ai/terms | quoted: 'Promotional/free compute credits (e.g., "$200 free") are one-time, non-transferable, have no cash value, and may expire under posted program rules.' No program rule with a duration is posted. |
| 2026-10-24 | docs.hopx.ai/cli/commands/auth | quoted: '--provider TEXT - OAuth provider: GoogleOAuth, GitHubOAuth (default: GoogleOAuth)', confirming the identity is a Google or GitHub account |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.hopx.ai/api-key.md | the HopX API is reachable by REST API and CLI, with SDKs |
| 2026-11-03 | hopx.ai/pricing | pricing page prices per-second usage of compute, memory and storage; no egress line |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.hopx.ai/api-key.md | the API key page documents SDK, CLI and REST access |
| 2026-11-04 | docs.hopx.ai/cli/commands/auth | the hopx CLI is documented |
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| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "a paused sandbox is not billed; the pricing page promises 'No idle charges' and 'scale to zero when done'","source": "https://hopx.ai/pricing"} |
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| billing model | per-second |
| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 10,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "timeout is settable and extendable and defaults to none; the ceiling is not published"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": "USD 0.00000003 per GiB-second","durability": "sandbox disk; pause preserves state, a timeout destroys it","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "not published"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "any port via preview URLs","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| ps | {"gib": 10,"price": "$0.00000003 a GiB-second","durability": "sandbox storage","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "until deleted"} |
| term | one-time credit |
| m10h usd | 20.3 |
| m24h usd | 49.41 |
| price arithmetic | 0.000014 x 3600 = 0.0504; 0.0000045 x 3600 = 0.0162; 10 x 0.00000003 x 3600 = 0.00108; total 0.06768/h; 200 / 0.06768 = 2955.1 h = 123.1 days; x 730 = 49.41 |
| credit usd | 200 |
| credit months at shape | 4.05 |
| credit hours at shape | 2955.1 |
| credit expiry | not stated on the pricing page; the terms say credits 'may expire under posted program rules' and no rule is posted |
| shape max | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"disk_gib": null,"note": "not published; a template build accepts 1-64 cores, 512MB-64GB RAM, 1-250GB disk as 'typical ranges'"} |
| price basis | 10 h/day x 30 = 300 h; 24/7 x 30 = 730 h |
| vendor claim hours | 4000 |
| vendor claim vs arithmetic | 4000 h against 2955 h computed from the rate card, a 35% overstatement |
| signup url | https://console.hopx.ai (docs also link console.hopx.dev; both redirect to /auth/login) |
| signup form | Google or GitHub OAuth only; no email field, no phone, no card |
Unknown values 1
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field