VK Cloud
vk.ru · 2 records in Compute, Storage · JSON
Records 2
- fails: identityVK Cloud
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit write-gatedevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
- fails: egressVK Cloud Object Storage
Storageno free tieridentity email?card?limit retention-clampedevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
VK Cloud
Compute- Free allowance
- RUB 5,000 of welcome bonuses for an individual account and RUB 12,000 for a legal entity, valid 60 days once credited.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe bonus is conditioned on the account being registered from an IP address in Russia and on a corporate-domain email address being confirmed, so the individual RUB 5,000 lane is closed to a registrant outside Russia even though no...
- Evidence
- documented4 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 | RUB 5,000 of welcome bonuses for an individual account and RUB 12,000 for a legal entity, valid 60 days once credited. Of the RUB 5,000 for an individual, RUB 2,000 is usable on virtual machines and their backups and RUB 3,000 on other services; licensed products, the marketplace and CDN are excluded. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | RUB 2,000 of VM-only bonus at the Russian CPU rate is a few weeks of a 2-vCPU box, and the RUB 3,000 half cannot be spent on the VM, so the effective VM credit is 40 per cent of the headline. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The useful number here is not the RUB 5,000 but the split: 40 per cent of the individual bonus reaches virtual machines. The startup grant is the large figure (up to RUB 2,000,000, with RUB 500,000 for months one and two and up to RUB 1,500,000 for months three to six) and it is entity-gated, so it is fails-identity with the number beside the reason. The IP-in-Russia condition is the constraint no identity document satisfies, which is unusual: most Russian providers gate on the phone, this one gates on the network. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | cloud.vk.ru/bonus/ | ' VK Cloud: 5000 12 000 - ' (RUB 5,000 for individuals, RUB 12,000 for legal entities), ' IP- , ' (the account must be registered on a corporate domain from an IP address in Russia), ' 60 ' (valid 60 days), quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.vk.ru/bonus/ | ' 5000 2000 - , 3000 - ' (of the 5,000, 2,000 is usable on VMs and backups), and the RUB 12,000 entity tier requires ' ', ' ', ' ' for sole traders, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.vk.ru/pricing/ | ' 5000 VK Cloud, 60 ' (after activation we contact you and credit RUB 5,000 for 60 days), quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.vk.ru/startup/ | ' VK Cloud 2026 ' (the account must be registered to a legal entity or sole trader in 2026) for the startup grant of up to RUB 2,000,000 over six months, quoted |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "regional","free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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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
VK Cloud Object Storage
Storage- Free allowance
- No perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup)
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedexpires in 60 days
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup) unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
bonus expires in 60 days and unused balance is revoked; bonus cannot be spent on CDN, licences or marketplace |
| Identity | email (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | metered: 'Outgoing traffic is any downloading of information from the bucket ... In both cases, the bucket is accessed using an external IP address' — charged per GB on Hotbox and Icebox; only incoming traffic and API calls are free |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | bonus expires in 60 days and unused balance is revoked; bonus cannot be spent on CDN, licences or marketplace (60 days) |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone s3 |
| Tooling | S3-compatible API, rclone via S3 backend; the only free axis is the 5 000 RUB (individual) / 12 000 RUB (legal entity) welcome bonus, 60 days |
| Composes with | welcome bonus only: 5 000 RUB per individual, one-time, 60-day expiry, requires a corporate-domain email and an RF IP; = N identities x ~60 days of storage, not perpetual |
| Reliability | Bonus-grant model means the storage disappears at day 60 unless paid. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | cloud.vk.ru/docs/en/storage/s3/tariffication | 'Outgoing traffic is any downloading of information from the bucket ... you pay for: Volume of stored data (per GB). Outgoing traffic (per GB)' |
| 2026-10-21 | cloud.vk.ru/bonus/ | '5000 бонусных рублей для физических лиц и 12 000 — для юридических лиц', 'Бонус выдается на срок 60 дней' |
| 2026-10-21 | hb.ru-msk.vkcloud-storage.ru/ | not published |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup)","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read