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- Free allowance
- A startup programme granting 6 months free; the compute runs in a user's own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account and bills there
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe free offer is a 6-month startup programme; the compute bills to a user's own cloud account throughout
- Evidence
- documented6 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 startup programme granting 6 months free; the compute runs in a user's own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account and bills there unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the free offer is a 6-month startup programme; the compute bills to a user's own cloud account throughout source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not published: https://www.porter.run/pricing read 2026-11-04 prints no egress allowance or overage price; the Porter charge excludes the underlying cloud provider's cost, so network transfer bills in the user's own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | cli CLI: the Porter CLI, documented at docs.porter.run/cli/installation, installed on macOS via Homebrew or shell script, on Linux via shell script and on Windows via manual binary download. |
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| Tooling | the Porter CLI (porter), installed with brew install porter-dev/porter/porter on macOS. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Porter's control plane is a service, and the cluster it creates runs in a cloud account the user rents; Porter spins it up, and the user installs no machine. |
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| Evidence note | documented the site was read on 2026-10-22 and states that the cluster runs in a user's own cloud account, with a 6-month free startup programme. The free half is the control plane, not the… |
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Evidence 6
More fields 6
| 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 user's own cloud account holds the cluster and sets the clocks"} |
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| persistent storage | {"gib": null,"price": "billed by a user's own cloud","durability": "a user's own cloud volumes","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"max_retention": "as long as a user keeps it"} |
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| network out | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "a user's own cloud account","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null} |
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| free tier kind | trial |
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Unknown values 7
- 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