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- Free allowance
- Confidential VMs from USD 0.06 per hour and GPU TEE capacity from USD 4.40 per hour, billed per minute, with storage at USD 0.000139 per GB per hour charged while the CVM exists whether it runs or not.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe documentation's first step after signup is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so no CVM exists without a payment instrument.
- 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 | Confidential VMs from USD 0.06 per hour and GPU TEE capacity from USD 4.40 per hour, billed per minute, with storage at USD 0.000139 per GB per hour charged while the CVM exists whether it runs or not. unit none; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The documentation's first step after signup is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so no CVM exists without a payment instrument. source
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| Identity | card card or a balance top-up: signup is 'with GitHub, Google or email', then the first step is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so a payment instrument is required before any CVM exists and a prepaid balance is the stated alternative to a card. No authorisation or hold amount is stated, and whether debit is accepted is not stated: unknown. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Phala is the cheapest attested-TEE lane found among DePIN records, but it is a prepaid invoice rather than a credit, so it does not chain with a zero-budget start. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A promotional credit may exist behind the signup login and was not visible; neither the pricing page nor the quick start shows one. Hourly rates are list prices, not measured. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "paid-cloud","free_tier_kind": null,"shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": "H100/H200/B300 TEE","gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- 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
- 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