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Prices drawn hourly from a prepaid balance.","tooling":"the catalogue is managed images: 'A deliberately short list. Every app here runs well on our platform' - 49 apps at the read date, and the media stack is not among them.","chaining":"The cheapest managed host found per app, useful for the non-media half of a stack (Homarr, Vaultwarden, Uptime Kuma, RSS) at USD 1.50-6.30; it cannot carry Plex, Jellyfin or the *arr apps.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"disk per tier: 5 GB NVMe (Lite), 10 GB (Standard), 20 GB (Power), 40 GB (Scale), +25 GB per USD 1.20 block","source":"https://corehost.io/pricing"}],"limits_note":"The categorical limit is the catalogue: of 49 apps, none is Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or a torrent client, so the price never applies to the pipeline is pricing.","binding":"none","binding_note":"Nothing binds at 1 TiB/month because no app in the catalogue streams media; the limit is fit, not quota.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Account with the USD 5 credit; a card is added only 'when it runs low', so a trial can start without payment details.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"New and small: an Australian vendor with three regions (Australia, United States, Poland), hourly billing and no track record found. Poland is 25 percent cheaper, which suggests capacity is being bought where it is cheap.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The pricing and catalogue pages were read today and the tier prices are quoted from them. The per-app pages are client-rendered and returned no readable content (a Prowlarr page came back as 2 words), so the card-deferral sentence comes from a search index's rendering. A signup would settle whether the USD 5 credit really starts without a card.","evidence":[{"url":"https://corehost.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"Lite $1.50 / Standard $2.30 / Power $3.90 / Scale $6.30 per month; Poland at $1.10/$1.70/$2.90/$4.70; 'Start free with $5 credit'; 'No bandwidth charges for normal use'; daily backups, SFTP, custom domains, hourly draw"},{"url":"https://corehost.io/apps","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"the full catalogue is 49 apps - Activepieces, Audiobookshelf, Homarr, Immich, Navidrome, Vaultwarden, WordPress and similar - with no Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, Plex, Jellyfin or Emby"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-23T02:28:11.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Recorded as the honest floor of managed app hosting: USD 1.50 per app is a third of ElfHosted's USD 9, and the reason is that the catalogue excludes everything that needs real disk, bandwidth or torrent egress. 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