- Free allowance
- USD 5.99/month for Flare: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, a 100 Mbps port, unmetered traffic, a dedicated IPv4, daily backups with 7-day retention, DDoS protection and full root.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shapingunmetered traffic on every plan, so the port is the wall and it climbs with the price: 100 Mbps on Flare, 250 Mbps on Orbit, 500 Mbps on Comet and 1 Gbps on Pulsar. A 100 Mbps port sustained is about 32 TB a month, which is the largest...
- 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 | USD 5.99/month for Flare: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, a 100 Mbps port, unmetered traffic, a dedicated IPv4, daily backups with 7-day retention, DDoS protection and full root. Orbit is USD 7.99/month for 2 vCPU, 4 GB (GB is the unit the page prints), 50 GB and a 250 Mbps port; Comet is USD 15.99 for 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 100 GB and 500 Mbps; Pulsar is USD 27.99 for 6 vCPU, 16 GB, 200 GB and 1 Gbps. Unmetered traffic on every plan, monthly billing, no setup fee, and the page says six plans exist against the four it lists. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) unmetered traffic on every plan, so the port is the wall and it climbs with the price: 100 Mbps on Flare, 250 Mbps on Orbit, 500 Mbps on Comet and 1 Gbps on Pulsar. A 100 Mbps port sustained is about 32 TB a month, which is the largest effective monthly allowance even though no byte counter exists. source
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not stated |
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| Egress | unmetered traffic on every plan; the port speed is the only stated limit and it rises with the plan free allowance: unmetered at 100 Mbps on Flare |
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| Interface | ssh, rest, cli inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | the vendor advertises an order-configure endpoint per plan at my.privatebyte.com/order/configure/<plan>, SSH and console access, daily backups and snapshots; no API or CLI is documented on the page read |
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| Composes with | USD 5.99 for 2 GB with unmetered traffic on a 100 Mbps port is the cheapest unmetered row, and 100 Mbps sustained is a larger monthly byte budget than any metered plan here states; that makes it the record to test first when the job is serving rather than storing, and the three locations give a European and a US point on one invoice |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The vendor table prints '4 GB' and '8 GB' under a column headed 'Memory' while the record's shape field is in GiB; the numbers are carried as printed and no conversion was made. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 0
- per-ip-shaping 32 TB / month
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