- Free allowance
- No free tier; the cheapest plan is General Purpose 1 vCPU, 1 GB DDR5, 25 GB NVMe, 3 Gbps port, unmetered bandwidth, KVM, at USD 4.99 a month (USD 3.49 for the first month on a first server), USD 49.90 a year or USD 89.82 for 24 months; location Virginia, USA
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap25 GB NVMe on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan, 50 GB on 1 vCPU / 2 GB
- Evidence
- reported16 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-12checked 2026-10-28 (live); stale on 2026-11-12
| Free tier | no free tier; the cheapest plan is General Purpose 1 vCPU, 1 GB DDR5, 25 GB NVMe, 3 Gbps port, unmetered bandwidth, KVM, at USD 4.99 a month (USD 3.49 for the first month on a first server), USD 49.90 a year or USD 89.82 for 24 months; location Virginia, USA unit none; metered on wall-clock; the next rung is Cost-Optimized 2 vCPU, 4 GB DDR4, 40 GB local NVMe, 1 Gbps at USD 9.99 a month; General Purpose 1 vCPU / 2 GB is USD 8.99 a month with 50 GB NVMe |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 25 GB NVMe on the 1 vCPU / 1 GB plan, 50 GB on 1 vCPU / 2 GB source
- per-ip-shaping 3 Gbps port on General Purpose, 1 Gbps on Cost-Optimized source
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| Binding | per-object-cap the 25 GB disk of the cheapest plan fills before bandwidth does, since bandwidth is unmetered |
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| Identity | card email address and password at signup; phone number verified by SMS before the first purchase ('Raff requires phone verification for security'); payment by card saved with the payment provider (USD 1.00 check charge credited to the account balance) or by a payment link when no card is saved; wire transfer and crypto through support; minimum age 18; no identity document named on the pages read |
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| Egress | bandwidth is stated as unmetered on every plan, over a 3 Gbps port on General Purpose and a 1 Gbps port on Cost-Optimized free allowance: unmetered |
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| Retention | not applicable: the unit is a machine, not stored bytes; billed in advance for a monthly, yearly or 24-month period |
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| Interface | rest, cli, ssh Raff API, CLI, Terraform provider and MCP server; browser terminal and SSH with root access |
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| Tooling | Raff API, CLI and Terraform provider; 20+ OS templates; the page documents no third-party client |
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| Composes with | one location, Virginia, so it adds a US-east vantage with free private networking between a customer's own Raff servers |
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| Reliability | no outage or suspension event recorded; General Purpose carries a 99.9% SLA with 3x replicated NVMe, Cost-Optimized has local NVMe and no SLA |
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| Notes | USD, billing terms monthly, yearly and 24 months. Cheapest plan USD 4.99 a month; USD 3.49 applies to the first month only. Whether tax is added at checkout is unverified. Each account may have one free managed database, which belongs to the databases-kv topic. |
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| Evidence note | reported the 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB shape and the 3 Gbps port come from the provider's own offer post on a forum; the product page states the USD 4.99 price but its General Purpose plan table is not in the page text, so the shape has no first-party quote yet |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 0
- per-object-cap 25 GB
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