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This trial provides access for up to 15 active CPU cores at a time and up to 100 core hours of usage. Your trial includes 25 device slots.' After the trial the rate is 'USD 0.50 per core hour, where a core hour is one hour of CPU core usage on AVH', with 'Discounts... for open-source software development and other non-commercial, academic, or research usage'. 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It breaks at throughput, because a virtual Ethos-U is a functional model and its latency numbers are not silicon numbers.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"100 core hours inside 30 days is the cap: a five-core device exhausts the trial in 20 hours of wall clock, and after the 30 days the virtual device shuts down automatically.","source":"https://support.avh.corellium.com/getting-started/access"}],"limits_note":"100 core hours inside 30 days is the cap: a five-core device exhausts the trial in 20 hours of wall clock, and after the 30 days the virtual device shuts down automatically.","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"100 core hours inside 30 days is the cap: a five-core device exhausts the trial in 20 hours of wall clock, and after the 30 days the virtual device shuts down automatically.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://support.avh.corellium.com/getting-started/access","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'a 30-day free trial... up to 15 active CPU cores at a time and up to 100 core hours of usage. 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