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- Free allowance
- $100 of one-time credit that behaves as ordinary prepaid balance and does not expire; a running machine costs $0.04 an hour as a base plus $0.05 a vCPU-hour and $0.0162 a GB-hour of memory
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rate$0.04 a machine-hour as a base for the isolated slot, plus $0.05 a vCPU-hour and $0.0162 a GB-hour of memory
- 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 | $100 of one-time credit that behaves as ordinary prepaid balance and does not expire; a running machine costs $0.04 an hour as a base plus $0.05 a vCPU-hour and $0.0162 a GB-hour of memory unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) $0.04 a machine-hour as a base for the isolated slot, plus $0.05 a vCPU-hour and $0.0162 a GB-hour of memory source
- per-object-cap an accounting model on active RSS and used disk, not on provisioned size: disk is $0.0001 a GB-hour used source
- per-ip-shaping network egress is $0.05 a GB source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the credit's one-time nature and that the remainder does not expire. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | smolmachines.com/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | smolmachines.com/pricing | 'Sign-up credit is granted once. New accounts receive $100.00 of credit when they are created. It is ordinary prepaid balance: it is drawn down as you use the platform, it does not reset monthly, and whatever is left stays yours.' with 'Base (running machine) per machine-hour running (1-minute minimum) $0.04' and 'Memory (active RSS) per GB-hour in use $0.0162', quoted |
More fields 9
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 8,"ram": 16,"disk": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "the free plan allows 8 vCPU and 16 GB per machine; the disk limit is stated as not published"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "idle apps scale to zero on every paid plan; the base fee applies only while a machine is running, with a one-minute minimum"} |
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| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 60,"rounding_s": null} |
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| burst x | 1.0 |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "$0.0001 a GB-hour used, about $0.073 a GB-month","durability": "disk billed on bytes used","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "while the machine exists"} |
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| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": null,"static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "$0.05 a GB of egress"} |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- 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