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Orbit is USD 7.99/month for 2 vCPU, 4 GB (GB is the unit the page prints), 50 GB and a 250 Mbps port; Comet is USD 15.99 for 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 100 GB and 500 Mbps; Pulsar is USD 27.99 for 6 vCPU, 16 GB, 200 GB and 1 Gbps. Unmetered traffic on every plan, monthly billing, no setup fee, and the page says six plans exist against the four it lists.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://privatebyte.com/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://privatebyte.com/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://privatebyte.com/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"unmetered traffic on every plan; the port speed is the only stated limit and it rises with the plan","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unmetered at 100 Mbps on Flare","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://privatebyte.com/"},"interface":["ssh","rest","cli"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"the vendor advertises an order-configure endpoint per plan at my.privatebyte.com/order/configure/<plan>, SSH and console access, daily backups and snapshots; no API or CLI is documented on the page read","chaining":"USD 5.99 for 2 GB with unmetered traffic on a 100 Mbps port is the cheapest unmetered row, and 100 Mbps sustained is a larger monthly byte budget than any metered plan here states that makes it the record to test first when the job is serving rather than storing, and the three locations give a European and a US point on one invoice","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"unmetered traffic on every plan, so the port is the wall and it climbs with the price: 100 Mbps on Flare, 250 Mbps on Orbit, 500 Mbps on Comet and 1 Gbps on Pulsar. A 100 Mbps port sustained is about 32 TB a month, which is the largest effective monthly allowance even though no byte counter exists.","source":"https://privatebyte.com/"}],"limits_note":"unmetered traffic on every plan, so the port is the wall and it climbs with the price: 100 Mbps on Flare, 250 Mbps on Orbit, 500 Mbps on Comet and 1 Gbps on Pulsar. A 100 Mbps port sustained is about 32 TB a month, which is the largest effective monthly allowance even though no byte counter exists.","binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"unmetered traffic on every plan, so the port is the wall and it climbs with the price: 100 Mbps on Flare, 250 Mbps on Orbit, 500 Mbps on Comet and 1 Gbps on Pulsar. A 100 Mbps port sustained is about 32 TB a month, which is the largest effective monthly allowance even though no byte counter exists.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://privatebyte.com/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"vendor plan table quoted row by row: 'Flare ... 1 ... 2 GB ... 25 GB ... 100 Mbps ... $5.99/mo'; 'Orbit ... 2 ... 4 GB ... 50 GB ... 250 Mbps ... $7.99/mo'; 'Comet ... 4 ... 8 GB ... 100 GB ... 500 Mbps ... $15.99/mo'; 'Pulsar ... 6 ... 16 GB ... 200 GB ... 1 Gbps ... $27.99/mo'; below the table: 'Unmetered traffic on every plan'; page description: 'Unmetered traffic, full root access and a dedicated IPv4 from $5.99 a month'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/221826/privatebyte-kvm-vps-from-5-99-mo-2-4gb-unmetered-london-amsterdam-dallas-25-off-let25","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the offer thread, posted October 7, 2026, titles the offer 'PrivateByte | KVM VPS from $5.99/mo | 2-4GB Unmetered | London, Amsterdam, Dallas | 25% off: LET25', naming the three locations and a discount code the vendor page does not carry"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute (searched: privatebyte, no record). The vendor table prints '4 GB' and '8 GB' under a column headed 'Memory' while the record's shape field is in GiB; the numbers are carried as printed and no conversion was made. The page says 'Explore all six plans' and lists four, so two plans exist that this record does not price. would-settle: those two plans, and whether LET25 stacks with the listed price or only applies at checkout.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":2,"disk_gib":25,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":32.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}