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Two storefronts of one vendor price the same shape at EUR 14.00 and RUB 3,390, a gap of about 2.7 times that neither page explains, so the row carries both numbers with their currencies and dates and is ranked in the document on the Euro figure.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"3 TB a month","source":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"1 Gbit/s port","source":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/"}],"limits_note":"the 3 TB allowance is the smallest in the qualifying set and is reached before the port becomes the constraint for a busy mirror. The plan card also prints one IPv4 included. No Windows surcharge is printed on the card or anywhere in the price flow read.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"3 TB a month decides the row for any serving workload; a backup or build box will not reach it.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"an account and a payment method at order; the storefront is region-split, so which entity and currency a buyer transacts with depends on the domain used","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed. The English storefront answered HTTP 200 to the 12:18Z fetch and HTTP 403 to a re-read at about 15:20Z, and the read broker answered with a stored provider copy whose own header records upstream_status 403, so the Euro figure rests on the first read and the failed re-read is recorded beside it.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the shape, the 3 TB allowance, the 1 Gbit/s port and the RUB 3,390 monthly price are read from the RU plan card on 2026-10-26, in a 3,045,248-byte page. The EUR 14.00 is read from the EN page's JSON-LD in a 2,731,056-byte HTTP 200 response at 12:18Z the same day, with EUR 16.00 for vm.v3-medium; a re-read at about 15:20Z returned 403, and both reads are dated evidence, so the Euro figure is documented rather than unresolved. The Windows surcharge is unpublished on both storefronts, which is why this row's all-in cost cannot be stated.","evidence":[{"url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/windows/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"HTTP 200, 2,731,056 bytes at 12:18Z; the page's JSON-LD carries price 14.00 with priceCurrency EUR for vm.v2-medium and 16.00 for vm.v3-medium"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"quoted from the vm.v2-medium card: vCPU 8, RAM 16 Gb, 160 GB NVMe, IPv4, 1 Gbit/s, 3 TB, at 3390 with the per-month marker"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"the page's product JSON for that card carries \"currency\":\"rub\" and a prices object holding 3390, while the adjacent JSON-LD block labels the same 3390 as \"priceCurrency\":\"EUR\"; the 1510 value that also carries EUR belongs to a preceding 12 GiB card"},{"url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/windows/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"HTTP 403 on a re-read at about 15:20Z, so the English Windows page could not be re-confirmed after the 12:18Z read"},{"url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"HTTP 403, 5,680 bytes to a direct fetch with a browser user agent, so the English catalogue path did not answer either"},{"url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"the read broker answered HTTP 200 with its own header stating upstream_status: 403 and source: provider(stored) exa, a stored provider rewrite rather than the origin, and the body carries no 14.00"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"the .ru page mentions Windows only in the what-is-included list as 'Operatsionnye sistemy UNIX i WINDOWS'; no licence price is printed on the card or in the price flow"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"RUB 3,390 converted at 0.012396 per ruble is USD 42.02 a month"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-26T13:30:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Two storefronts of one vendor price the same shape differently, and both numbers are recorded rather than one being picked as the truth. 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The licence is sold separately on both storefronts and its price is unpublished, which is why the all-in cost cannot be stated.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":8,"ram_gib":16,"disk_gib":160},"billing_model":"monthly","term":"none","monthly_eur":14.0,"monthly_usd":15.67,"monthly_rub":3390.0,"monthly_rub_usd":42.02,"v3_monthly_eur":16.0,"setup_fee_eur":0.0,"windows_licence":"sold separately, price unpublished on both storefronts","windows_images":["Windows Server 2019","Windows Server 2022 Datacenter","Windows Server 2025"],"jsonld_currency_bug":"on the .ru page a ruble card is labelled priceCurrency EUR in the structured data, which is how a RUB 3,390 plan can be misread as a Euro plan","ipv4_included":true,"port_mbps":1000,"traffic":"3 TB/month","fx":"EUR 1 = USD 1.1193, the corpus rate used in docs/compute/paid/windows-vps.md on 2026-10-26; RUB 80.673994 per USD, open.er-api.com, 2026-10-26","en_read":"HTTP 200, 2,731,056 bytes at 12:18Z on https://hostkey.com/vps/windows/; JSON-LD price 14.00 for vm.v2-medium and 16.00 for vm.v3-medium","en_reread":"HTTP 403 at about 15:20Z on a re-read of the same page","en_catalogue_403":"https://hostkey.com/vps/ returned HTTP 403 in 5,680 bytes; the read broker's stored copy records the same 403","ru_url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/","en_url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/windows/","en_catalogue_url":"https://hostkey.com/vps/"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.monthly_usd","kind":"price","num":15.67,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":15.67,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":16.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":3.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/hostkey","other":"compute/hostkey-windows","field":"verdict","a":"paid-only","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null}]},{"rid":"compute/hostkey","card":{"rid":"compute/hostkey","eid":"hostkey","topic":"compute","slug":"hostkey","provider":"HOSTKEY","url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","domain":"hostkey.ru","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No free trial, stated in the provider's own words on two pages, while a third page offers three days of free access and the refund documentation invites a re...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"hostkey","provider":"HOSTKEY","url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"No free trial, stated in the provider's own words on two pages, while a third page offers three days of free access and the refund documentation invites a request to discuss free testing, so the provider publishes two answers at once. 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