- Free allowance
- SparkCloud publishes a six-part free stack on one account: root Linux containers on Ubuntu 24.04 with real SSH, auto-hibernating browser dev Spaces, managed Postgres 16 with daily backups, static hosting with custom domains, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint fronting Claude, GPT and Gemini, and...
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe age verification is the binding constraint and it is a gate rather than a quota: 'Every account is age-verified', so an adult outside the stated range cannot reach any of the six components, and no amount of usage planning changes that.
- Evidence
- documented7 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 | SparkCloud publishes a six-part free stack on one account: root Linux containers on Ubuntu 24.04 with real SSH, auto-hibernating browser dev Spaces, managed Postgres 16 with daily backups, static hosting with custom domains, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint fronting Claude, GPT and Gemini, and object storage with global edge caching. The page states 'Free forever, no credit card' and 'Free for every teen, no credit card, because a nonprofit covers the cost', run by a 501(c)(3). The registration page states 'Sparkden is for teenagers. Every account is age-verified.' No credit figure, container shape, or monthly hour allowance is published on either page read. unit none; metered on wall-clock; allowance |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The age verification is the binding constraint and it is a gate rather than a quota: 'Every account is age-verified', so an adult outside the stated range cannot reach any of the six components, and no amount of usage planning changes that. source
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| Identity | institution no card and no hold; membership of a youth programme instead. Quoted: 'free for every teen, no credit card' and 'minimum age to join 13+'. The account is 'built for under-18 users from the ground up'. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | ssh inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The quota is unknown, which matters if the age policy ever widens; the page publishes no credit number, no container shape and no monthly hour allowance, so a reader who found the door open would still not know what was behind it. FreeTierWatch and a Hacker News thread both discuss Oracle's halving in the same week, which is how this lead was found. |
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