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Microsoft Dev Box (closed to new customers; retiring 2028-09-18)
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- Free allowance
- Not stated
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedno free dev box: the only free path is the 30-day Azure trial credit, after which the underlying compute and storage bill normally
- 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 | not stated unit none; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) no free dev box: the only free path is the 30-day Azure trial credit, after which the underlying compute and storage bill normally source
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | dead is reserved for a product that is withdrawn or unreachable. |
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| Evidence note | documented the Dev Box product page was read on 2026-10-22. It offers no free dev box and points at the 30-day Azure free trial instead, which confirms the record's paid-only verdict |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
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": "a dev box has a built-in hibernate-on-disconnect schedule that a user sets; the page states no vendor-imposed reap"} |
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| free tier kind | none |
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| reclassified from | dead |
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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
- free tier stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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