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- Free allowance
- During early access, 'your first app on a Mini pod is free with no card'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capthe free pod is one Mini at 1 vCPU and 1 GB with 6 GB of disk, and the app must come from the vendor's catalogue of supported open-source apps, so a custom image is not what this buys.
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | During early access, 'your first app on a Mini pod is free with no card'. The Mini pod is 'USD 4/mo - One light app, such as analytics, uptime checks or a password vault - 1 GB RAM - 1 vCPU - 6 GB disk', and every app 'runs in its own always-on cloud pod' with 'no usage meters, bandwidth bills or per-seat fees'. Larger pods: Small 'USD 7/mo - 2 GB RAM - 2 vCPU - 12 GB disk', Medium 'USD 12/mo - 4 GB RAM - 2 vCPU - 24 GB disk'. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; free-forever |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) the free pod is one Mini at 1 vCPU and 1 GB with 6 GB of disk, and the app must come from the vendor's catalogue of supported open-source apps, so a custom image is not what this buys. source
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| Identity | email no card for the first app: the page states 'During early access, your first app on a Mini pod is free with no card'. No hold exists on that path because no payment method is taken. The signup form is not quoted, so the email requirement is inferred rather than read, and debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated. |
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| Egress | not published on the page read: no bandwidth allowance or overage price appears; the page states 'Flat $4. No credits. No surprise bill.' |
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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 | 1 vCPU and 1 GB always-on with a nightly backup covers the self-hosted service that otherwise needs a VPS: uptime monitoring, a newsletter, a password vault or an analytics endpoint, with no maintenance on the client's side. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Aggregator claim checked: dalisoft/awesome-hosting lists podway as 'Mini (4 USD/m) - no trial - 1 app free'. The vendor agrees on the price and makes the free app explicit but attaches it to early access, so the arrangement is promotional and can end; that is why the pod counts here as a real free allowance and not as a permanent one. Not established: whether the free pod can run an arbitrary container, which the app catalogue suggests it cannot. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 1 GB
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | podway.io/apps | 'During early access, your first app on a Mini pod is free with no card', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | podway.io/apps | Mini pod 'USD 4/mo ... 1 GB RAM - 1 vCPU - 6 GB disk'; Small 'USD 7/mo ... 2 GB RAM - 2 vCPU - 12 GB disk'; Medium 'USD 12/mo ... 4 GB RAM - 2 vCPU - 24 GB disk', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | podway.io/apps | 'Each app runs in its own always-on cloud pod. Choose a size that fits it. There are no usage meters, bandwidth bills or per-seat fees from Podway.', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | podway.io/apps | supported catalogue includes Ghost, Umami, NocoDB, Listmonk, Uptime Kuma and Vaultwarden marked 'Free - early access', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | podway.io/ | the page states a flat price; no bandwidth allowance is stated |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "new-provider","free_tier_kind": "free-forever","shape": {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- 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