Leapcell
- Free allowance
- Hobby at USD 0 per seat a month: 20 projects, up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM per project, 1 free PostgreSQL database, custom domains with SSL, a global CDN; 'Persistent Servers' appear only on the paid Plus plan, so the free tier is serverless.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedno persistent servers on the free tier: the Hobby plan is serverless and scales to zero
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | Hobby at USD 0 per seat a month: 20 projects, up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM per project, 1 free PostgreSQL database, custom domains with SSL, a global CDN; 'Persistent Servers' appear only on the paid Plus plan, so the free tier is serverless. unit none; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
3 GB-hours of compute a month at 3 vCPU per project is roughly one hour of the full-size worker per month, so a model-inference endpoint on the advertised shape exhausts the allowance almost immediately; requests past the limit return 429 and nothing is charged. |
| Binding | retention-clamped 'Persistent Servers' is a paid-tier line item, so the free tier cannot hold a process between requests. |
| Identity | email an account; the pricing page states no card for the Hobby plan |
| Egress | not stated on the pricing page; traffic is served through the vendor's CDN free allowance: unstated |
| Per-object cap | up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM per project on Hobby |
| Retention | not stated on the pricing page; the free tier has no persistent server |
| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | a 3 vCPU / 4 GB serverless project with a free Postgres is a complete model-serving stack with no card, and it composes with a Kaggle or Colab notebook that trains the weights; what breaks is the 3 GB-hour monthly compute pool, which is about one full-size inference hour. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The pricing page read still does not print those numbers, so the quota remains unverified; what is new is the tier comparison, which places persistent servers on Plus and therefore shows the free tier scales to zero. |
| Evidence note | documented the plan contents and the absence of persistent servers on Hobby were read on the pricing page; the invocation and GB-hour quota is still not printed there |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | leapcell.io/pricing | Hobby: 20 projects, up to 3 vCPUs per project (3 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM), 1 free PostgreSQL database, custom domains and SSL, quoted |
| 2026-10-21 | freetier.wiki/services/leapcell/ | free tier: 100,000 invocations a month, 3 GB-hours serverless compute, 2 GB networking, 60 build minutes, 10-minute deployment cap, 7-day log retention; a fair-use policy against multiple accounts; last checked 2026-10-21 |
| 2026-10-22 | whichdevtool.com/tools/leapcell/ | Hobby requests past a limit get a 429 error and nothing is charged; 3 vCPU / 4 GB per project |
| 2026-10-24 | leapcell.io/pricing | quoted: 'Hobby ... 20 Projects (Services) ... Up to 3 vCPUs per project (3 vCPUs, 4GB RAM) ... 1 Free PostgreSQL database' |
| 2026-10-24 | leapcell.io/pricing | quoted: 'All the benefits of Hobby, plus: Persistent Servers' on the Plus plan, which places persistent servers outside the free tier |
More fields 10
| facets | {"class": "perpetual-free-allowance","free_tier_kind": "perpetual-free","shape": {"vcpu": 3,"ram_gib": 4,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
|---|---|
| shape | {"vcpu": 3,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
| billing model | free |
| term | none |
| m10h usd | 0.0 |
| m24h usd | 0.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 0 for the Hobby plan; metered usage beyond it is not published |
| free tier kind | free-plan |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "serverless HTTP through the CDN","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "scales to zero; the idle interval is not published"} |
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field