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- Free allowance
- Community Edition is free for individuals and non-profit organisations, with 5 concurrent sessions
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe free edition is restricted to individuals and non-profit organisations
- 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 | Community Edition is free for individuals and non-profit organisations, with 5 concurrent sessions unit users; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate 5 concurrent sessions on Community Edition source
- write-gated (binding) the free edition is restricted to individuals and non-profit organisations source
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| Identity | email 'Individuals and non-profit organizations are free to use Kasm Workspaces Community Edition' with no account requirement stated; the licence is the gate, not an email |
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| Egress | not published: the Community Edition page lists no egress allowance and no overage price; Managed Egress is a separate feature marked For Purchase in the Enterprise column only |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest the Developer API, an HTTP API of POST endpoints under /api/public with an API key and secret (Community Edition includes it); the web console in the browser; the user installs and runs the server on a rented or free machine |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the Community Edition page was read on 2026-10-22 and states both the licence grant and the 5-session cap. The free product is self-hosted software, not hosted compute, and the record says so |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 5
More fields 5
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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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": "5 concurrent sessions; the page states no wall-clock or idle cap"} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "a user supplies the storage","durability": "a user's own host","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "as long as a user's host exists"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- 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