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- Free allowance
- A Free Tier licence that applies with no purchase: 100 CPU cores across Tart and 4 Orchard workers; Gold is $12,000 a year for 500 cores and Platinum $36,000 for 3,000
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap100 CPU cores across Tart and 4 Orchard workers on the Free Tier licence
- 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 | a Free Tier licence that applies with no purchase: 100 CPU cores across Tart and 4 Orchard workers; Gold is $12,000 a year for 500 cores and Platinum $36,000 for 3,000 unit objects; metered on identity-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-object-cap (binding) 100 CPU cores across Tart and 4 Orchard workers on the Free Tier licence source
- write-gated the free licence applies by default; exceeding it requires a paid licence from $12,000 a year 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 licensing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the free tier's two caps, with worked examples on either side of them. The unit is CPU cores rather than hours, and the examples make the boundary concrete |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | tart.run/licensing/ | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | tart.run/licensing/ | 'By default, when no license is purchased, it is assumed that an organization is using a Free Tier license.' with 'Free Tier license has a 100 CPU core limit for Tart and 4 Orchard Workers limit for Orchard', and the worked examples: 12 Mac Minis with 8 CPUs each fits, 13 does not. Gold is $12,000 a year for 500 cores |
More fields 6
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": "Apple Silicon host","gpu_count": null,"note": "the licence counts host CPU cores: 100 on Free, 500 on Gold, 3,000 on Platinum"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "the cap is a core count, not a clock: 12 Mac Minis at 8 CPUs each fits, 13 does not"} |
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| free tier kind | allowance |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "a user's own Mac hardware","durability": "a user's own Macs","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"max_retention": "as long as a user keeps the hardware"} |
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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