Islo

Free allowance: Starting credits at signup with no card; a running computer bills $0.07 a CPU-hour, $0.04 a GB-hour of memory and $0.0007 a GB-hour of disk, and a stopped computer bills nothing
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: request-rate$0.07 a CPU-hour, $0.04 a GB-hour of memory and $0.0007 a GB-hour of disk
Evidence: documented7 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	starting credits at signup with no card; a running computer bills $0.07 a CPU-hour, $0.04 a GB-hour of memory and $0.0007 a GB-hour of disk, and a stopped computer bills nothing unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) $0.07 a CPU-hour, $0.04 a GB-hour of memory and $0.0007 a GB-hour of disk source retention-clamped stopping the computer stops the meter; there is no idle fee source not stated
Identity	email 'You get credits when you sign up. No credit card required.', quoted from islo.dev/pricing read 2026-10-22
Egress	No egress allowance or overage price is published on the pricing page; it prices CPU time, memory and storage only.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	cli CLI, per the CLI reference: "The CLI follows the factory workflow."
Tooling	the islo command-line client, per the CLI reference: "Use `islo schema <command>` to see the installed command and manifest schema."
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the three hourly meters and that stopping ends the meter. The credit's size is not published, so the record states a credit exists and does not put a number on it
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 7

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	islo.dev/pricing	not published
2026-10-22	islo.dev/pricing	'CPU, memory, and storage billed per hour. Stop the computer, stop the meter.' with '$0.07/CPU-hour', '$0.04/GB-hour', '$0.0007/GB-hour' of disk and 'You get credits when you sign up. No credit card required.' quoted
2026-10-22	boat.dev/compare	a competitor's comparison table lists Islo at USD 0.600 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
2026-11-03	docs.islo.dev/cli/overview.md	a CLI exists
2026-11-03	islo.dev/pricing	pricing lists CPU, memory and disk only; no egress line
2026-11-04	docs.islo.dev/cli/overview.md	the page documents a CLI
2026-11-04	docs.islo.dev/cli/overview.md	the page names the islo command

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keep rate	0.0
keep rate basis	first-party: e alternatives More Community Agent infrastructure glossary Security Customers Pricing Sign in Start an agent
billing model	unclassified
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a user stops the computer; the vendor states no reap, and cost limits per task are offered as a guardrail"}`
free tier kind	one-time-credit
burst x	1.0
ps	`{"gib": null,"price": "$0.0007 a GB-hour","durability": "disk","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "until deleted"}`
net	`{"out": true,"in": true,"ports": null,"static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null}`
crosscheck	`{"boat_compare_2026-09-26": "USD 0.600/h at 4 vCPU / 8 GB"}`

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