{"rid":"compute/buyvm-slice-512","card":{"rid":"compute/buyvm-slice-512","eid":"buyvm","topic":"compute","slug":"buyvm-slice-512","provider":"BuyVM","url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","domain":"buyvm.net","category":"VPS","tier":"SLICE 512","verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"ssh","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-24T01:56:37.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-25","stale_on":"2026-11-24","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":2,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No free tier. SLICE 512 is USD 24.00 a year; SLICE 1024 is USD 3.50 a month and is not sold annually on this page.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"buyvm-slice-512","provider":"BuyVM","url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","category":"VPS","tier":"SLICE 512","free_tier":{"stated":"No free tier. SLICE 512 is USD 24.00 a year; SLICE 1024 is USD 3.50 a month and is not sold annually on this page.","unit":"none","metered_on":"none","source_url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","read_on":"2026-10-24"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable"},"retention":{"stated":"The slice persists while the term is paid; the page states no deletion schedule.","days":null,"source_url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/"},"egress":{"terms":"Unmetered bandwidth on a 1000 Mbps port, in the vendor's wording 'Unmetered Dedicated KVM Slice Servers'.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unmetered","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"KVM slice with unmetered transfer on a 1000 Mbps port.","tooling":"Any SSH client; KVM, so its own kernel.","chaining":"USD 24.00 a year buys 512 MB with unmetered transfer and a real IPv4: twice ceiling, but the cheapest unmetered machine found here.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"unmetered transfer at 1000 Mbps; the vendor states no volume cap, so port contention is the practical limit","source":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/"}],"binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"With no traffic quota, the only thing that degrades is throughput under contention on a shared 1000 Mbps port.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Self-service order with an email account; the page read today states no card hold and lists no payment methods.","country":null},"reliability_note":"Long-running provider with a block-storage product on the same account.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Both prices and the shape are quoted from the vendor's page read today.","evidence":[{"url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'SLICE 512 ... 512 MB Memory ... 10 GB SSD Storage ... $24.00 per year'"},{"url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'SLICE 1024 ... 1024 MB Memory ... 20 GB SSD Storage ... $3.50 per month'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-24T01:56:37.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"This refutes the framing that BuyVM has a sub-USD-1 monthly slice. The cheapest machine on the page is USD 24.00 a year, USD 2.00 a month, and it has half the RAM of the USD 9.95 SoftShellWeb container.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.5,"disk_gib":10,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"annual","term":"12 months","m24h_usd":2,"m10h_usd":2,"price_arithmetic":"USD 24.00 a year / 12 = USD 2.00 a month. Out of pocket at order: USD 24.00.","renewal_usd":24,"first_payment_usd":24,"network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"all, on one IPv4","static_ip":true,"ipv6":false,"ipv6_prefix":null,"per_session_bytes":null},"payment_methods":"not established on the page read","session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"none; it is a VPS"}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":2,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":2,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":2,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.renewal_usd","kind":"price","num":24,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":24,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.confidence_note","partly-held"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/buyvm","other":"compute/buyvm-slice-512","field":"identity_kind","a":"card","b":"email","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/buyvm-slice-2048","other":"compute/buyvm-slice-512","field":"identity_kind","a":"card","b":"email","detail":null}]}