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The pricing page lists three meters only - vCPU-seconds, GB-seconds of RAM, and GB-months of storage - and states no traffic allowance or per-GB rate. The plans are 'bring-your-own-key' and sell the machine, not model usage.","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing"},"interface":["rest","cli"],"interface_detail":"Python SDK, MCP server, templates, and a Telegram bridge on the paid plans. The product is an agent-running machine, not a shell you SSH into.","tooling":"The vendor's SDK and MCP; a Telegram bridge for the paid tiers. No SSH or generic compute interface was documented on the page read.","chaining":"The USD 3 Personal plan buys 30 workstation hours a month of a 2 vCPU / 4 GB machine, which is the cheapest way found to keep a small always-warm environment for an agent - but it is 30 hours, not 730, and the metered rate beyond that is USD 0.1656 an hour.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"30 active hours a month on Personal (100 on Pro), a 4 h maximum session on the free tier and 24 h on Pro","source":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"USD 5 of usage credit on the free tier, no card","source":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing"}],"limits_note":"The 30-hour monthly allowance is wall-clock, not a byte quota, and it is the number that decides the plan: 30 hours is 4% of a month. Storage is billed separately at USD 0.15 per GB-month even while the workstation is paused.","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"The plan's 30 active hours and the 4 h (free) / 24 h (Pro) session cap clamp runtime before any byte quota could; beyond the allowance the meter runs at USD 0.1656 an hour, which is USD 120.89 for a month.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"'Start free with a $5 usage credit and no card' and 'No card. One pip install pilldrops away.' Card types for the paid plans, any authorisation hold, and whether a debit or prepaid card is accepted are not stated on the page read.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Every plan is bring-your-own-model-key, so the machine outlives a provider rate limit but the agent stops when the key's quota does; no suspension or data-loss event was observed.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Prices, meters, plan allowances and the no-card claim are all from the vendor's pricing page read today. The 24/7 figure is arithmetic on those published meters, not a quoted total: it is what the same shape costs if run continuously outside the allowance. What would raise it: a probe that runs a sandbox for an hour and reads the billed amount.","evidence":[{"url":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Personal $3/mo - 1 persistent workstation, 30 active hours / month, 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 10 GB disk, 6 concurrent sandboxes'"},{"url":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: '$0.0000140 per vCPU-second, $0.0000045 per GB RAM-second, $0.15 per GB-month storage' and 'a paused sandbox bills storage only'"},{"url":"https://pilldrops.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"identity: 'Start free with a $5 usage credit and no card'"},{"url":"https://pilldrops.com/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Compute is metered per second: $0.0000140 per vCPU-second and $0.0000045 per GB of RAM-second, plus $0.15/GB-month storage', and '$5 in free credits. No card.'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T01:54:08.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"Arithmetic at 24/7 on the Personal shape: vCPU 2 × 0.0000140 × 3600 = USD 0.1008 an hour; RAM 4 × 0.0000045 × 3600 = USD 0.0648 an hour; together USD 0.1656 an hour × 730 = USD 120.888; plus storage 10 GB × USD 0.15 = USD 1.50, so USD 122.39 a month. At 300 hours it is USD 49.68 + 1.50 = USD 51.18. The USD 3 plan is therefore a bundle of 30 hours, and the page's own 'rule of thumb' (USD 0.13 an hour for a 2 vCPU / 2 GB sandbox) matches the meters. Region, hosting and the maximum session length on Personal (only free 4 h and Pro 24 h are stated) are unverified.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":4,"disk_gib":10,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"hourly","term":"monthly plan allowances plus per-second metering","m10h_usd":51.18,"m24h_usd":122.39,"price_arithmetic":"(2 × 0.0000140 + 4 × 0.0000045) × 3600 = USD 0.1656/hr; × 730 h = USD 120.888; + 10 GB × USD 0.15 storage = USD 1.50; total USD 122.39. × 300 h = USD 49.68 + 1.50 = USD 51.18.","free_tier_kind":"credit","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":null,"ports":"not documented on the page read","static_ip":null,"ipv6":null,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":240,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"4 h max session on free, 24 h on Pro; checkpoints preserve filesystem state"},"aggregator_gross_usd_month":null,"aggregator_note":"sandboxprices.com carries PillDrops in the picker with no modelled total and ranks it nowhere; its own note says paid-plan availability and sandbox limits conflict, which the vendor page read today resolves: plans are on sale at USD 3 and USD 12."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":51.18,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":51.18,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":122.39,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":122.39,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}