- Free allowance
- Free plan, quoted: '0.25 vCPU', '256 MB RAM', '1 GB Disk', 'Isolated compute', 'Wakes on the next request', '1 deployment slot per app', 'Custom domains'.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe free app sleeps when idle and wakes on the next request, so a cold start of seconds sits in front of the first request after every idle period.
- Evidence
- documented7 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 | Free plan, quoted: '0.25 vCPU', '256 MB RAM', '1 GB Disk', 'Isolated compute', 'Wakes on the next request', '1 deployment slot per app', 'Custom domains'. The app 'sleeps when idle' and there is 'No card to deploy'. Paid Hobby is 'EUR 3.49 /mo per replica' for 0.5 vCPU, 512 MB RAM and 5 GB disk; a EUR 14.99 credit follows when a payment method is added. unit GiB; metered on wall-clock; free-forever |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) the free app sleeps when idle and wakes on the next request, so a cold start of seconds sits in front of the first request after every idle period. source
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| Identity | email no card: the homepage states 'Your first app sleeps when idle and wakes on the next request, so keeping it live costs nothing. No card to deploy.', so no payment method is taken to deploy and no hold exists; the EUR 14.99 credit follows only when a payment method is added. The signup form's own fields are not described, so whether an email, phone number or ID document is required is unknown; kind kept as email without an evidence row stating it. |
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| Egress | Bandwidth is unmetered: no egress fees and no per-GB data-transfer meter; a soft fair-use guideline of around 10 TB of outbound per app per month is not a charge free allowance: unmetered; soft fair-use guideline of around 10 TB outbound per app per month |
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| Retention | the free app sleeps when idle and wakes on the next request, so a cold start of seconds sits in front of the first request after every idle period. |
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| Interface | rest, cli REST API with an OpenAPI document and X-Api-Key header; the velixir CLI installs as a standalone binary or a .NET global tool; no SSH or SDK documented on the pages read |
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| Tooling | the velixir CLI (login, deploy, apps, env, db, cache, volume, access-logs) and a REST API with API keys |
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| Composes with | a free 0.25 vCPU app that serves an API and a cron trigger costs nothing while idle, and the EUR 3.49 Hobby replica is the smallest paid step when a second always-on process is needed. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Aggregator claim checked: free-for.dev says 'one app (0.25 vCPU, 256 MB RAM) that sleeps when idle, custom domains with TLS, and no credit card'. The vendor matches, so the gap is zero. Omitted by the aggregator: the 1 GB disk, the one-deployment-slot limit per app, and the EUR 3.49 paid floor. Region is fixed to EU Central by policy, not by a setting the user changes. |
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