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The CPU meter is the term that decides the bill: at USD 0.044 per vCPU-hour of consumed CPU a Medium sandbox that is 25 percent busy costs about USD 0.011 per hour in CPU plus USD 0.038 in memory, so USD 0.049 against the vendor's USD 0.126 full-allocation figure and below E2B's USD 0.166. Egress at USD 0.01 per GiB matches bunny.net's European rate. The USD 5 credit is small; the real free lane is that the balance can come from a DigitalOcean promotional credit. Checkpoints bill while paused, which is the trap: the vendor says so explicitly, including at a zero balance.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"major-cloud-agent-runtime","free_tier_kind":"one-time-credit","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":4,"disk_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":5,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}