{"rid":"compute/albahost","card":{"rid":"compute/albahost","eid":"albahost","topic":"compute","slug":"albahost","provider":"AlbaHost","url":"https://www.albahost.net/","domain":"albahost.net","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest","egress_metered":1,"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":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Geolocated AL 1 at EUR 6 per month: 1 core x 3.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps port, 10 TB traffic, 1 IPv4, /64 IPv6, Albania. The next two are AL 2 at E...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":7},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"albahost","provider":"AlbaHost","url":"https://www.albahost.net/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"Geolocated AL 1 at EUR 6 per month: 1 core x 3.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 1 Gbps port, 10 TB traffic, 1 IPv4, /64 IPv6, Albania. The next two are AL 2 at EUR 11 (2 cores, 8 GB, 40 GB NVMe, 20 TB) and AL 3 at EUR 16 (3 cores, 12 GB, 60 GB NVMe, 30 TB).","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.albahost.net/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.albahost.net/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.albahost.net/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"marketed as traffic rather than egress: '10 TB Traffic' included with the plan, with no overage price printed on the page","metered":true,"free_allowance":"10 TB/month","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.albahost.net/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated on the page read; the page sells through a cart at /order-steps/server/<id> and documents no API","chaining":"4 GB of RAM and 20 GB of NVMe for EUR 6 is a plausible always-on front end or job runner in the Balkans; the 10 TB allowance is generous against the disk, so it is a bandwidth host rather than a storage host","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"10 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port; at 1 Gbps flat the allowance is spent in 22 to 24 hours depending on whether the terabyte is decimal or binary, so the monthly counter binds long before the port does.","source":"https://www.albahost.net/"}],"limits_note":"10 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port; at 1 Gbps flat the allowance is spent in 22 to 24 hours depending on whether the terabyte is decimal or binary, so the monthly counter binds long before the port does.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"10 TB a month on a 1 Gbps port; at 1 Gbps flat the allowance is spent in 22 to 24 hours depending on whether the terabyte is decimal or binary, so the monthly counter binds long before the port does.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.albahost.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"plan card quoted: 'Geolocated AL 1', 'Monthly', '6 EUR', '1 Core x 3.6GHz', '4 GB RAM', '20 GB NVMe', '1 Gbps', '10 TB Traffic', '1 IPv4', '/64 IPv6'"},{"url":"https://www.albahost.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"AL 2 at '11 EUR' with 2 cores / 8 GB / 40 GB / 20 TB and AL 3 at '16 EUR' with 3 cores / 12 GB / 60 GB / 30 TB, each with an Add to Cart link to /order-steps/server/<id>"},{"url":"https://vpspricetracker.com/provider/AlbaHost/vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"tracker's cheapest row is 'AlbaHost - 10.00 / month' with 'ram 2,048 MB RAM', 'disk 20 GB SSD', 'bandwidth 5,120 GB/month', 'rj45 10 Gbps port speed', city Albania - the same plan name (Albania_AL_1) at a higher price and different specs"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute (searched: filename and content, no AlbaHost record). The vendor page and the tracker disagree on the same plan name: the vendor sells Albania_AL_1 as 1 core / 4 GB / 20 GB / 1 Gbps / 10 TB for EUR 6, the tracker records 2 GB / 20 GB SSD / 5,120 GB / 10 Gbps for EUR 10. The vendor figure is recorded because it was read first-hand; the tracker row is kept as evidence of the disagreement, not averaged. would-settle: whether the AL 1 card is in stock at order time, which the page does not state.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":4,"disk_gib":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":10,"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":[]}