KakaoCloud Virtual
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Records 2
- paidKakaoCloud Virtual Machine
Computeidentity email?card?limit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: identityKakaoCloud
Computefree tieridentity institutioncardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
KakaoCloud Virtual Machine
Compute- Free allowance
- No free tier: pay-as-you-go instances across general-purpose and accelerator families, with root and additional volumes billed separately as Block Storage
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rateper-use billing across the m1ix, m3az, t1i, c1ix, gn1i and p2i families; the page states no free allowance
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | no free tier: pay-as-you-go instances across general-purpose and accelerator families, with root and additional volumes billed separately as Block Storage unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the VM pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and lists the instance families and the separate block-storage charge. It states no free tier, so the record's USD 220.92 credit is not established and the verdict moves to paid-only |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | www.kakaocloud.com/services/virtual-machine/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | www.kakaocloud.com/services/virtual-machine/pricing | the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 (Korean, 200 reporting no numeric status) and lists general-purpose instance families m1ix, m3az, t1i and c1ix with accelerator families gn1i (NVIDIA T4) and p2i (NVIDIA A100), billing per use and charging root and additional volumes separately as Block Storage |
More fields 8
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "an instance bills while it exists; the page states no clock"} |
| free tier kind | none |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 60,"rounding_s": null} |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "Block Storage, billed separately from the instance","durability": "block volume","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "while the volume exists"} |
| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "any","static_ip": true,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null} |
Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field
KakaoCloud
Compute- Free allowance
- KRW 300,000 of credit for new customers who register a payment method and apply within three months of signup, usable against most services.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutioncard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedSignup itself requires a business registration certificate (saeopja-deungnokjeung) and a business registration number, so an individual outside Korea cannot open the account that holds the credit.
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | KRW 300,000 of credit for new customers who register a payment method and apply within three months of signup, usable against most services. Outbound data is free up to 30 GiB a month. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | institution a registered business is required before signup: the signup guide states a copy of the Korean business registration certificate (saeopja-deungnokjeung) must be prepared and that uploading it with its registration number is a mandatory first step, so the account needs a legal entity rather than a person's ID document; the KRW 300,000 credit then needs a payment method registered and an application within three months of signup. No hold is stated and debit or prepaid acceptance is not stated; the startup tracks, KRW 5,000,000 for a year and KRW 35,000,000 over two, need the same entity |
| Egress | the cheapest Korean plan in the index is KakaoCloud t1i.nano at 2 vCPU and 0.5 GB for USD 2.98 a month with outbound 30 GiB free; a third-party price comparison, reported not documented |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | KRW 300,000 against a KRW-denominated 2 vCPU instance is several months of a small box, but the whole chain sits behind a Korean business registration number. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | This refutes the common English roundup line that KakaoCloud is a cheap Korean cloud anyone can open: the gate is a business licence, not a phone. The startup track (KRW 5,000,000 for a year) is larger and needs a legal entity but no revenue. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | kakaocloud.com/business/support/new | the new-signup programme page states, in Korean, that a credit worth KRW 300,000 is granted to a customer who applies within 3 months of signup, usable against payment for various services, and lists the two steps as registering a payment method and then applying for the credit |
| 2026-10-22 | docs.kakaocloud.com/start/quickstart-guide/sign-up | the signup guide states, in Korean, that a copy of the business registration certificate must be prepared before signup, and that uploading the business registration certificate and entering its registration number is a mandatory first step of the KakaoCloud signup procedure |
| 2026-10-22 | blog.kakaocloud.com/94 | the startup programme blog states, in Korean, that the Launch track gives KRW 5,000,000 of credit usable for one year to every qualified startup, and that the Grow track gives KRW 35,000,000 over two years to companies backed by a partner VC or accelerator |
| 2026-10-22 | ssanvps.com/en/korea/ | the cheapest Korean plan in the index is KakaoCloud t1i.nano at 2 vCPU and 0.5 GB for USD 2.98 a month with outbound 30 GiB free; a third-party price comparison, reported not documented |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "regional-credit","free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit","shape": {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 0.5,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field