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- Free allowance
- A Free tier with limited monthly hosted usage, and credits addable at any time without a subscription; $10 a month buys 10 concurrent cloud sandboxes
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-ratelimited monthly hosted usage on Free; 10 concurrent cloud sandboxes on the $10 tier
- Evidence
- documented4 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 | a Free tier with limited monthly hosted usage, and credits addable at any time without a subscription; $10 a month buys 10 concurrent cloud sandboxes unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) limited monthly hosted usage on Free; 10 concurrent cloud sandboxes on the $10 tier source
- write-gated credits can be added at any time with no subscription, so the free tier's ceiling is a balance rather than a plan source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not published: the pricing page meters sandbox compute per second and durable storage per GiB-month and states no egress allowance or price |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | cli CLI (npx openpond), desktop app, web, TUI and Slack or Microsoft Teams; no sandbox REST reference read |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states a free tier with limited monthly hosted usage and credit top-ups without a subscription. The free tier's amount is stated only as 'limited', so no figure is invented |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | openpond.ai/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | openpond.ai/pricing | 'Start free. Upgrade for more projects, team access, and concurrent cloud sandboxes. Add credits whenever you need more hosted usage.' with 'Limited monthly usage included' on Free and '$10 in monthly hosted usage' plus 'Up to 10 concurrent cloud sandboxes' on the next tier, quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | openpond.ai/pricing | the sandbox meter is compute time; no egress meter is listed |
| 2026-11-03 | openpond.ai | a CLI exists |
More fields 6
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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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": "hosted usage is metered monthly; the page states no session clock"} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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Unknown values 8
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- 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