- Free allowance
- One Small container per app, up to 4 apps, no credit card: 512 MB RAM, 0.25 vCPU, 10 deploys a day (at most 5 in any 12 hours), 100 running hours a month across the account, sleeps after 15 minutes without visitors.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped100 running hours a month across the whole account, not per container, so four containers average about 25 hours each and the box sleeps after 15 idle minutes and takes about a minute to wake, which breaks any request that must answer cold.
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | One Small container per app, up to 4 apps, no credit card: 512 MB RAM, 0.25 vCPU, 10 deploys a day (at most 5 in any 12 hours), 100 running hours a month across the account, sleeps after 15 minutes without visitors. Quoted from the pricing page. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) 100 running hours a month across the whole account, not per container, so four containers average about 25 hours each and the box sleeps after 15 idle minutes and takes about a minute to wake, which breaks any request that must answer cold. source
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| Identity | email no card and no payment method: the pricing page lists the free tier with 'no credit card', so no hold exists. The evidence does not say which identifier the account is created with, so whether an email alone suffices is not stated; debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Retention | 100 running hours a month across the whole account, not per container, so four containers average about 25 hours each and the box sleeps after 15 idle minutes and takes about a minute to wake, which breaks any request that must answer cold. |
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| Interface | unknown web dashboard, GitHub push-to-deploy, an MCP connector (npx @snapdeploy/mcp), and an HTTP API reference at https://snapdeploy.dev/api for the /api/mobile/** endpoints, authenticated with a scoped personal access token or a legacy API key sent as X-API-Key; the docs/api path answers HTTP 404 |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | 100 hours is enough for a daily batch job that runs a few minutes, and the 2 GB Docker image limit lets a real scientific Python image ship; it does not compose into anything always-on. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Found via awesome-hosting Containers section, which lists the free tier as 100 h/month and the paid floor as USD 12 a month. The docs/free-tier page was not read separately; the pricing page already states the cap. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- retention-clamped 25 hours
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