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- Free allowance
- Free with a $0 base price, $50 of credits to start, 10 GB of included volume storage and 5 simultaneously active VMs, no card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate5 simultaneously active VMs on Free, 100 on Pro
- Evidence
- documented8 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 | Free with a $0 base price, $50 of credits to start, 10 GB of included volume storage and 5 simultaneously active VMs, no card unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 5 simultaneously active VMs on Free, 100 on Pro source
- per-object-cap 10 GB of included volume storage on Free; volume billing uses allocated size, not bytes written source
not stated |
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| Identity | email 'No credit card required', quoted from the pricing page read 2026-10-22 |
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| Egress | Free plan includes egress to known package managers and common AI APIs; Pro adds unrestricted egress or granular domain/CIDR allowlists. No egress allowance or overage price is published on the pricing page. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest, ssh, cli RESTful API, the instavm Python SDK, the instavm CLI and ssh instavm.dev |
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| Tooling | the instavm Python SDK (from instavm import InstaVM), the instavm CLI, and ssh instavm.dev |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. The $50 is a one-time credit, while the active-VM count and the 10 GB volume are recurring plan limits, so both are recorded |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 10 GB
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | instavm.io/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | instavm.io/pricing | 'Free has a $0 base price, $50 in free credits to start, 10 GB of included volumes ... No credit card required', and 'Your plan only limits how many can be active at once: 5 on Free, 100 on Pro', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | instavm.io/pricing | free plan egress is allowlisted; no price |
| 2026-11-03 | instavm.io | a REST API exists |
| 2026-11-03 | instavm.io | an ssh interface exists |
| 2026-11-03 | instavm.io/pricing | free plan egress scope |
| 2026-11-04 | instavm.io | the home page documents a RESTful API |
| 2026-11-04 | instavm.io | the documented Python SDK is InstaVM |
More fields 7
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap published; active-VM count is the bound"} |
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| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 10,"price_gib_month": "extra volume billed on allocated size","durability": "volume","survives_stop": true,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "while the volume exists"} |
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| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"ports": "Free includes egress to known package managers and common AI APIs only; Pro adds unrestricted egress or allowlists"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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Unknown values 6
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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