- Free allowance
- 'Every new account can get $25 in credit with a one-time $5 top-up.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- USD 20/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 25 credit requires a one-time USD 5 top-up; Medium 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB at USD 0.0274 an hour, USD 20 a month
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | 'Every new account can get $25 in credit with a one-time $5 top-up. A positive balance is what boots a machine. Top up by card; the card is saved for auto top-up.' unit none; metered on none; A deposit match, not a grant: USD 5 must be paid by card first. 'Credits are prepaid and non-refundable.' |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) USD 25 credit requires a one-time USD 5 top-up source
- volume-quota (binding) Medium 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB at USD 0.0274 an hour, USD 20 a month source
The balance also pays for model and API calls made through platform keys, so compute and inference compete for the same USD 25. |
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| Binding | volume-quota The prepaid balance is the only limit: USD 25 at USD 0.0274 an hour is 912 hours, and nothing else in the published terms stops a box running. |
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| Identity | card A card is required for the USD 5 top-up before any credit lands, and 'the card is saved for auto top-up'. No hold amount is stated; the charge is a real USD 5, not an authorisation. |
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| Egress | No egress charge or allowance is stated on the pricing page. |
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| Per-object cap | Four sizes: 'Tiny 1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 20 GB disk $0.0068 $5', 'Small 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB $0.0137 $10', 'Medium 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB $0.0274 $20', 'Large 6 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GB $0.0548 $40'. |
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| Retention | 'Paused boxes cost $0.' No deletion timer for a paused box is stated. |
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| Interface | rest, cli web console and API; the platform also bills model and API calls through the same balance |
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| Tooling | web dashboard; per-box itemised model and API spend |
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| Composes with | a cheap 4 vCPU box whose balance also pays for model calls, so an agent and its inference share one wallet |
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| Reliability | 'A positive balance is what boots a machine', so a zero balance stops the box rather than billing overage. |
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| Notes | USD 25 at Medium's USD 0.0274 is 912 hours, so the match buys 1.25 months of a 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB machine for USD 5 out of pocket, which is the lowest cash cost for a 4 vCPU month anywhere. It is card-gated at signup and the balance is shared with inference, so it is not a free tier. |
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| Evidence note | documented Sizes, rates, the top-up requirement and the non-refundable term are on the pricing page read. Not established: whether the USD 25 is granted once per account or once per person, and whether a paused box is retained indefinitely. |
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| Parsed numbers | - price USD 8.22 10 hours a day / month
- price USD 20 / month
- volume-quota 25 credit
- volume-quota 8 GB
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