- Free allowance
- New accounts get EUR 1.00 in credit, no card required, and prepaid credit does not expire.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedThe continuous-live backstop force-pauses any session after 24 hours live, and after 6 hours on an unverified trial account; a session paused by its own max_lifetime_ms can never be resumed (HTTP 410).
- Evidence
- documented11 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 | New accounts get EUR 1.00 in credit, no card required, and prepaid credit does not expire. Three fixed sizes metered by the millisecond while a session runs: small 1 vCPU / 1 GB at EUR 0.0144 per hour, medium 2 vCPU / 4 GB at EUR 0.036 per hour, large 4 vCPU / 8 GB at EUR 0.072 per hour. A paused session is billed storage only, about EUR 0.07 per GB per month. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) The continuous-live backstop force-pauses any session after 24 hours live, and after 6 hours on an unverified trial account; a session paused by its own max_lifetime_ms can never be resumed (HTTP 410). source
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| Identity | email no card and no payment method: the pricing page states EUR 1.00 of starting credit with no card required, and prepaid credit does not expire, so no hold exists. The account does begin as an 'unverified trial' with tighter caps (1 live session, 5 GB disk, 6-hour continuous-live backstop), so a verification step exists, but what it asks for is not stated in the evidence |
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| Egress | Outbound access is open to the public internet by default, with an optional per-session domain allowlist; no egress allowance or overage price is published on the pricing or networking pages. |
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| Retention | The continuous-live backstop force-pauses any session after 24 hours live, and after 6 hours on an unverified trial account; a session paused by its own max_lifetime_ms can never be resumed (HTTP 410). |
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| Interface | rest, cli REST API at https://api.inis.run (versioned under /v1, bearer authentication) and the inis CLI, whose inis ssh command opens an interactive shell |
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| Tooling | the inis command-line tool, installed with the inis.run install script (static binary); it wraps the HTTP API and needs no SDK |
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| Composes with | Prepaid credit that never expires plus millisecond billing makes this the cheapest place to park a long-lived 1 vCPU agent that idles; the paused tier (hot, warm, cold) is what lets it wake in tens of milliseconds without paying for the wait. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Considered as floor candidate. EUR 0.036 per hour for 2 vCPU / 4 GiB is EUR 26.28 for 730 hours, a full month of a 2 vCPU machine, and it undercuts every provider on the boat.dev and boxyard comparison tables except the ones that bill active CPU only. The unverified-trial limits (1 live session, 5 GB disk, 6 hour backstop) are the part a new account actually meets. Isolation technology was not read. GPU: none, every size is CPU only. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 24 hours
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