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Kiwi Run is NZD 15.00 with 4 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB, 2 TB and a 200 Mbit/s port.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"1 TB included at the plan's port speed; past that the link continues at 2 Mbit/s with no overage charge, so a long transfer is slowed rather than billed","metered":false,"free_allowance":"1 TB per month at full speed","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"KVM on NZ-based Proxmox clusters, full root; automated backups, firewall management and monitoring are optional paid add-ons","chaining":"the endless 2 Mbit/s tail after 1 TB means a slow archive sync can run all month without a bill, which no other host offers","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"1 TB a month, after which the link continues at 2 Mbit/s instead of being billed, so the wall is throughput and not cost","source":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps"}],"limits_note":"1 TB a month, after which the link continues at 2 Mbit/s instead of being billed, so the wall is throughput and not cost","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"1 TB a month, after which the link continues at 2 Mbit/s instead of being billed, so the wall is throughput and not cost","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed past the 1 TB allowance the port is shaped to 2 Mbit/s by policy rather than suspended","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'VPS Kiwi Go, 8.00 NZD / month, vCPU 2, RAM 1 GB, Storage 20 GB, Bandwidth 1 TB Max Speed - Endless 2Mbps, Port 100 Mbps, Data Centre Wellington-X, Free IPv4, Free /64 IPv6 subnet' quoted from the plan card"},{"url":"https://siliconkiwi.nz/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the page's embedded product data carries \"price\":\"8.00\", \"priceCurrency\":\"NZD\" for the same plan, which corroborates the card"},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/SiliconKiwi/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"tracker row 'NZ$6.67 / month, yearly Service, 2 Intel Cores (shared), 1,024 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, 1,024 GB/month bandwidth, 0.1 Gbps port speed, Wellington New Zealand', with the page header saying 'starting at NZ$80.00 per year'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The tracker quotes NZD 6.67/month because it divides an NZD 80 annual term; the vendor page read states NZD 8.00 per month and does not show the annual figure, so both are recorded and neither is converted. Residence in New Zealand puts latency to Europe and the US at roughly a quarter second, which is the real cost of this row. Not in dossier/compute. would-settle: whether the 2 Mbit/s tail is per month and whether the annual term is still NZD 80.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":1,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1.0,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1.0,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}