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Free allowance
Start free with a $5 usage credit and no card; the Free tier is 5 concurrent sandboxes, 4 h max session, 2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 2 GB disk, all templates and SDKs, no persistent workstation
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tierpaid plans from USD 122.39/month
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
retention-clamped30 active hours a month on Personal (100 on Pro), a 4 h maximum session on the free tier and 24 h on Pro
Evidence
documented4 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 tierStart free with a $5 usage credit and no card; the Free tier is 5 concurrent sandboxes, 4 h max session, 2 vCPU / 2 GB RAM / 2 GB disk, all templates and SDKs, no persistent workstation
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock; credit, not hours: USD 5 of usage at the published per-second rates
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • retention-clamped (binding) 30 active hours a month on Personal (100 on Pro), a 4 h maximum session on the free tier and 24 h on Pro source
  • volume-quota USD 5 of usage credit on the free tier, no card source
The 30-hour monthly allowance is wall-clock, not a byte quota, and it is the number that decides the plan: 30 hours is 4% of a month. Storage is billed separately at USD 0.15 per GB-month even while the workstation is paused.
Bindingretention-clamped The plan's 30 active hours and the 4 h (free) / 24 h (Pro) session cap clamp runtime before any byte quota could; beyond the allowance the meter runs at USD 0.1656 an hour, which is USD 120.89 for a month.
Identityemail 'Start free with a $5 usage credit and no card' and 'No card. One pip install pilldrops away.' Card types for the paid plans, any authorisation hold, and whether a debit or prepaid card is accepted are not stated on the page read.
EgressNot published. The pricing page lists three meters only - vCPU-seconds, GB-seconds of RAM, and GB-months of storage - and states no traffic allowance or per-GB rate. The plans are 'bring-your-own-key' and sell the machine, not model usage.
Per-object capnot applicable: the unit is a machine, not an object; the billed shape is 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 10 GB on Personal
Retentionunknown: Personal and Pro each include '1 persistent workstation', and a paused sandbox bills storage only at USD 0.15 per GB-month, but no page read states how long a paused workstation survives before deletion
Interfacerest, cli Python SDK, MCP server, templates, and a Telegram bridge on the paid plans. The product is an agent-running machine, not a shell you SSH into.
ToolingThe vendor's SDK and MCP; a Telegram bridge for the paid tiers. No SSH or generic compute interface was documented on the page read.
Composes withThe USD 3 Personal plan buys 30 workstation hours a month of a 2 vCPU / 4 GB machine, which is the cheapest way found to keep a small always-warm environment for an agent - but it is 30 hours, not 730, and the metered rate beyond that is USD 0.1656 an hour.
ReliabilityEvery plan is bring-your-own-model-key, so the machine outlives a provider rate limit but the agent stops when the key's quota does; no suspension or data-loss event was observed.
NotesArithmetic at 24/7 on the Personal shape: vCPU 2 × 0.0000140 × 3600 = USD 0.1008 an hour; RAM 4 × 0.0000045 × 3600 = USD 0.0648 an hour; together USD 0.1656 an hour × 730 = USD 120.888; plus storage 10 GB × USD 0.15 = USD 1.50, so USD 122.39 a month. At 300 hours it is USD 49.68 + 1.50 = USD 51.18. The USD 3 plan is therefore a bundle of 30 hours, and the page's own 'rule of thumb' (USD 0.13 an hour for a 2 vCPU / 2 GB sandbox) matches the meters. Region, hosting and the maximum session length on Personal (only free 4 h and Pro 24 h are stated) are unverified.
Evidence notedocumented Prices, meters, plan allowances and the no-card claim are all from the vendor's pricing page read. The 24/7 figure is arithmetic on those published meters, not a quoted total: it is what the same shape costs if run continuously outside the allowance. What would raise it: a probe that runs a sandbox for an hour and reads the billed amount.
Parsed numbers
  • price USD 51.18 10 hours a day / month
  • price USD 122.39 / month
  • has-free-tier 1
Evidence 4
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-24pilldrops.com/pricingquoted: 'Personal $3/mo - 1 persistent workstation, 30 active hours / month, 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 10 GB disk, 6 concurrent sandboxes'
2026-10-24pilldrops.com/pricingquoted: '$0.0000140 per vCPU-second, $0.0000045 per GB RAM-second, $0.15 per GB-month storage' and 'a paused sandbox bills storage only'
2026-10-24pilldrops.com/pricingidentity: 'Start free with a $5 usage credit and no card'
2026-10-24pilldrops.com/quoted: 'Compute is metered per second: $0.0000140 per vCPU-second and $0.0000045 per GB of RAM-second, plus $0.15/GB-month storage', and '$5 in free credits. No card.'
More fields 10
shape{"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": 10,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}
billing modelhourly
termmonthly plan allowances plus per-second metering
m10h usd51.18
m24h usd122.39
price arithmetic(2 × 0.0000140 + 4 × 0.0000045) × 3600 = USD 0.1656/hr; × 730 h = USD 120.888; + 10 GB × USD 0.15 storage = USD 1.50; total USD 122.39. × 300 h = USD 49.68 + 1.50 = USD 51.18.
free tier kindcredit
network out{"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": null,"ports": "not documented on the page read","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null}
session cap{"wall_clock_min": 240,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "4 h max session on free, 24 h on Pro; checkpoints preserve filesystem state"}
aggregator notesandboxprices.com carries PillDrops in the picker with no modelled total and ranks it nowhere; its own note says paid-plan availability and sandbox limits conflict, which the vendor page read resolves: plans are on sale at USD 3 and USD 12.
Unknown values 1
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published