Shardflux
- Free allowance
- A trial at Pro limits that ends at the cap or after 30 days, then the account moves to Free with nothing deleted; a parked workspace uses no compute and keeps its memory and processes
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe trial runs at Pro limits for 30 days or until the cap, then the account drops to Free with nothing deleted
- 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 trial at Pro limits that ends at the cap or after 30 days, then the account moves to Free with nothing deleted; a parked workspace uses no compute and keeps its memory and processes unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Outbound transfer is a monthly allowance by plan: 100 GB Developer (USD 9), 250 GB Pro (USD 29), 1 TB Startup, 5 TB Scale, and 250 GB during the 7-day signup trial. There is no overage price: at 100 % of the allowance outbound internet traffic is blocked until the next period or an upgrade free allowance: 250 GB during the 7-day trial; 100 GB a month on Developer |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, cli HTTP API, the shard CLI, and TypeScript and Python SDKs (npm i @shardflux/sdk); an E2B SDK compatibility mode; no SSH access found in the docs read |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the trial's 30-day life, the parked-state behaviour and that nothing is deleted when it ends. The 30-day clock is the fact, and the parked state preserving memory is the state answer |
Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | shardflux.dev/#pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | shardflux.dev/#pricing | 'Each workspace is a Linux microVM with its own kernel, disk and memory. Shardflux creates it, parks it, wakes it and keeps its state' and 'A workspace parks seconds after its last call, and the next call wakes it. Suspended, it uses no compute.' and 'Suspend and resume keep its memory and running processes, so the dev server is still on its port.' and 'At the cap or after 30 days the account is on Free, with nothing deleted.', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.shardflux.dev/limits | no overage price; outbound is blocked at the allowance |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.shardflux.dev/limits | trial outbound allowance 250 GB |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.shardflux.dev/limits | outbound allowance per plan |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.shardflux.dev/limits | an HTTP API and the shard CLI exist |
More fields 7
| keep rate | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| billing model | unclassified |
| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram": 2,"disk": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "the free shape is 1 vCPU and 2 GiB; Pro reaches 4 vCPU and 8 GiB per workspace, up to 8 vCPU and 16 GiB each on larger plans"} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "parks seconds after the last call; suspend keeps memory and running processes, so the dev server is still on its port when it wakes"} |
| free tier kind | trial |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "retained storage is part of the monthly plan","durability": "microVM disk plus retained memory and processes on suspend","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "nothing is deleted when the trial ends"} |
Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field