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- Free allowance
- The SST Console is free for workspaces with 350 or fewer active resources a month, with no credit card to start; above that it is USD 0.086 per active resource for the first 2,000 and USD 0.032 beyond.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe free tier is a count of 350 active resources a month in the Console, and the capacity itself is gated by the AWS account behind it, which needs a card.
- Evidence
- documented3 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 | The SST Console is free for workspaces with 350 or fewer active resources a month, with no credit card to start; above that it is USD 0.086 per active resource for the first 2,000 and USD 0.032 beyond. The Console is a dashboard over an app that SST deploys into the customer's own AWS account, so the compute is an AWS bill and the Console contributes no runtime. unit none; metered on wall-clock; free-control-plane |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the free tier is a count of 350 active resources a month in the Console, and the capacity itself is gated by the AWS account behind it, which needs a card. source
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| Identity | card the card belongs to the AWS account, not to the Console: the record's own limits row reads that "the capacity itself is gated by the AWS account behind it, which needs a card", while the docs state "the Console is completely free to get started and an account can be created without a credit card", with billing details needed only above 350 active resources a month, where production and deployed stages block until they are added. So signing up for the free Console tier takes no card and no hold exists there, and no compute is obtained either, because the Console contributes no runtime; the record does not state what the Console signup asks for — an email or a GitHub account — nor the AWS account's card terms, debit or prepaid acceptance |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | SST is the cheapest way to describe AWS infrastructure in TypeScript and the Console is free at hobby size, but every service it creates bills to AWS; it composes with AWS credits and with nothing else. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Names Sst, and sst.dev/pricing returns 404 while sst.dev/docs/console carries the pricing, so the record is written against the docs page. Verdict is paid-only because no free runtime exists, even though the tooling fee is zero. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | sst.dev/docs/console/ | 'Free Tier: Workspaces with 350 active resources or fewer'; 351 resources in a month bills USD 30.20 at USD 0.086 per resource; the count resets monthly, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | sst.dev/docs/console/ | the Console is completely free to get started and an account can be created without a credit card; going over the free tier blocks production and deployed stages until billing details are added, while personal stages stay accessible, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | sst.dev/docs/console/ | a resource is what SST creates in your cloud provider and is active if its stage is at least two weeks old and was updated during the month, quoted |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "bring-your-own-cloud","free_tier_kind": "free-control-plane","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 7
- 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
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field