InsForge (InstaCloud)

Free allowance: $10 of usage credit a month that refreshes, with up to 4 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 1 GB of volume per service; a project pauses when the credit runs out and resumes next cycle
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-rate$10 of usage credit a month, refreshing; $0.00000772 a vCPU-second
Evidence: documented5 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	$10 of usage credit a month that refreshes, with up to 4 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 1 GB of volume per service; a project pauses when the credit runs out and resumes next cycle unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) $10 of usage credit a month, refreshing; $0.00000772 a vCPU-second source per-object-cap up to 4 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 1 GB of volume per service source retention-clamped a project pauses when the credit runs out and resumes in the next cycle, so exhaustion is a pause rather than a delete source not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	egress is priced at USD 0.05 per GB as a usage cost; no free egress allowance is listed on the pricing page price per tb: USD 50 per TB
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	cli, rest the insta CLI (interactive login or an API token) and the InstaCloud REST API authenticated with an insta_ token
Tooling	the insta CLI, which a coding agent can also drive
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the monthly credit, the per-service caps and the pause-on-exhaustion behaviour. The credit recurs, which makes it a tier, and the pause is the state answer
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 per-object-cap 4 GB

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	www.instacloud.com/pricing	not published
2026-10-22	www.instacloud.com/pricing	'$10 of usage credit per month. Refreshes every month' with 'Up to 4 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 1 GB volume per service', 'Projects pause when credit runs out, and resume next cycle', and '$0.00000772 per vCPU/sec', quoted
2026-11-03	www.instacloud.com/pricing	egress is priced at $0.05 per GB
2026-11-03	docs.instacloud.com/reference/cli/overview.md	a CLI manages services
2026-11-03	docs.instacloud.com/llms.txt	a REST API exists

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keep rate	1.0
billing model	unclassified
shape	`{"vcpu": 4,"ram": 4,"disk": 1,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "the ceiling per service on the free tier"}`
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "billed only on active CPU and memory; a project pauses on exhaustion and resumes next cycle"}`
free tier kind	recurring-credit
granularity	`{"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null}`
burst x	1.0
ps	`{"gib": 1,"price": "$0.000000057833 a GB-second of volume, $0.000000005783 a GB-second of object storage","durability": "volume and object storage","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "until deleted"}`

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