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- Free allowance
- No free tier: Apple Silicon Mac minis at $0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro, with warm boots under a second
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rate$0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro
- 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 | no free tier: Apple Silicon Mac minis at $0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro, with warm boots under a second unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) $0.90 an hour for an M4, $1.40 for an M4 Pro and $1.75 for an M5 Pro source
- retention-clamped a snapshot of the disk state lets fresh clones start from the same point, so state is kept as an image rather than a paused machine source
- per-object-cap two VMs per Mac, with warm boots under a second 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 site was read on 2026-10-22 and states the hourly rates and the snapshot-and-clone behaviour. There is no free tier, so the record's USD 100 credit is not established and the verdict moves to paid-only |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-02 | use.computer/ | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | use.computer/ | 'Real Apple Silicon Mac minis · 2 VMs per Mac · <1s warm boot · M4 $0.90/hr · M4 Pro $1.40/hr · M5 Pro $1.75/hr' with 'Seed a macOS sandbox once: install your tools, sign in, open your apps. Snapshot the disk state, then spin up fresh clones from that exact state', quoted |
More fields 8
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": "Apple M4","gpu_count": 1,"note": "a real Mac mini with two VMs per Mac; M4, M4 Pro and M5 Pro are priced"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "warm boot under a second; the state answer is the snapshot-and-clone path rather than a paused VM"} |
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| free tier kind | none |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 86400,"rounding_s": null} |
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| ps | {"gib": null,"price": "disk state is snapshotted and cloned","durability": "snapshot of the disk state","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "the snapshot"} |
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| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": null,"static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"allowance": null} |
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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