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Gladiolus (vm.gl)
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- Free allowance
- 'Virtual machines for people building things that deserve to exist.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gateda human reads every request, so the gate is a decision by one person and not a quota; the number of VMs is not published
- Evidence
- documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-30checked 2026-10-30 (live); stale on 2026-11-30
| Free tier | 'Virtual machines for people building things that deserve to exist. Offered freely, without conditions or calendars.' 'Linux VMs: Full root access. Run containers, host services, build what you need.' 'No invoices: Not "free tier." Not "trial." Actually free. We don't want your credit card or your growth metrics.' 'No expiration: Keep it running as long as you need it.' 'Human review: We read every request.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) a human reads every request, so the gate is a decision by one person and not a quota; the number of VMs is not published source
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| Identity | email a request read by a human; no card is asked for, and the page states no conditions |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Retention | 'No expiration: Keep it running as long as you need it.' No inactivity or deletion term is stated. |
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| Interface | ssh full root access to a Linux VM; the access route is not otherwise stated |
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| Tooling | a Linux VM with root access; no client is named on the page |
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| Composes with | a machine with root access and no invoice composes with the free always-on lane as a second address, and with a CI runner as the deploy target |
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| Reliability | On 2026-10-30 vm.gl accepted no TCP connection on port 443 or on its HTTP port from one vantage point, and an HTTPS GET of the page timed out; the page text was returned by a third-party reader the same day. |
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| Notes | The machine shape, the egress term and the number of machines are not published, so the record carries no numbers rather than estimates. A human reviews each request, which makes the gate a judgement and therefore unpredictable in a way a quota is not. The page names two sites, Highland, Illinois, and Sandefjord, Norway, the second marked 'Coming soon'. |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | vm.gl/ | 'Offered freely, without conditions or calendars' and 'Linux VMs - Full root access. Run containers, host services, build what you need.', quoted from the page read on 2026-10-22 |
| 2026-10-30 | vm.gl/ | the page states the VMs are free with no invoice and no card, not a free tier or a trial |
| 2026-10-30 | vm.gl/ | the page states the VM has no expiration |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: vm.gl:443 | a TCP connection to vm.gl port 443 timed out on 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: vm.gl:80 | a TCP connection to vm.gl port 80 timed out on 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: https://vm.gl/ | an HTTPS GET of https://vm.gl/ failed with a connect timeout on 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: vm.gl:443 | a second TCP connection to vm.gl port 443, about 12 minutes after the first, also timed out |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=vm.gl&type=A | vm.gl still resolves on 2026-10-30, to 128.254.226.29, so the name has not lapsed |
| 2026-10-30 | vm.gl/ | the Norway site is not yet open; the Illinois site is the one in service |
| 2026-10-30 | vm.gl/ | every request is read by a person; no quota or number of VMs is stated |
| 2026-10-30 | vm.gl/ | the VM gives full root; the page's whole text names no traffic or egress term |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "perpetual-vps"} |
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Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer