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Card hold not stated: unverified rather than none. Payment methods were not readable because the order page redirects to the category listing.","country":null},"reliability_note":"the card states 'No refund/Money back on this plan', so a failed deploy is not recoverable by refund","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"shape and USD 45.00 annual price quoted from the vendor's own sale cards read today, including the per-location stock counters. The renewal is not published anywhere on the page.","evidence":[{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Bucharest card: 'BudgetKVMRO-3 | 8 Available | 8192MB RAM | 60GB NVMe RAID-10 | 4 cores @ E5v3 | 1 IPv4 | /112 IPv6 | 8TB Bandwidth | 10Gbps Port | Bucharest, RO | $45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the UK card: 'BudgetKVMCUK-3 | 8 Available | 8192MB RAM | 60GB SSD RAID-10 | 4 cores @ Intel E5v4 | 1 IPv4 | /64 IPv6 | 8TB Bandwidth | 10Gbps Port | Coventry, UK | $45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the other two in-stock cards: 'BudgetKVMMO-3 | 3 Available ... Kansas City, MO' and 'BudgetKVMJAX-3 | 2 Available ... 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Customers will be notified of price changes.'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/budget-kvm-vps.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the rendered pricing table, the row for the same shape as BudgetKVM*-3: '| SSDKVM-4 | 60GB SSD | 4 cores | 8 GB | 8 TB | 10Gbps Port | Linux | 24/7/365 | $40/mo |'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"counted on the 320,626 raw bytes: 44 occurrences of Annually, zero of renew and zero of recurring. The 8 GiB card price renders as '$45.00 USD Annually' and each card carries 'No refund/Money back on this plan'; the twenty 8 GiB location cards hold 21 units in four locations."},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted verbatim from the Bucharest card: 'BudgetKVMRO-3 8 Available No refund/Money back on this plan 8192MB RAM 60GB NVMe RAID-10 Hard drive 4 cores @ E5v3 CPU' with 'Bucharest, RO Location Virtfusion Control Panel' and '$45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted verbatim from the UK card: 'BudgetKVMCUK-3 8 Available No refund/Money back on this plan 8192MB RAM 60GB SSD RAID-10 Hard drive 4 cores @ Intel E5v4 CPU' with 'Coventry, UK Location Virtfusion Control Panel' and '$45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted verbatim, the other two cards in stock: 'BudgetKVMMO-3 3 Available' and 'BudgetKVMJAX-3 2 Available'; the remaining sixteen 8 GiB location cards read 0 Available, so the 8 GiB rung is 21 units in four of twenty locations"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted verbatim, the 4 GiB rung on the same page: 'BudgetKVMNYC-2 0 Available No refund/Money back on this plan 4096MB RAM 35GB NVMe RAID-10 Hard drive 2 cores @ EPYC Rome CPU' at '$25.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/terms-of-service.php","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Average usage should not exceed 30%, with bursts to 100% allowed for 10 minutes every 24 hours.' and 'Use 100% or more of system resources for longer than 10 minutes' listed as a prohibited activity"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Bucharest card: 'BudgetKVMRO-3 / 8 Available / 8192MB RAM / 60GB NVMe RAID-10 Hard drive / 4 cores @ E5v3 CPU / 1 IPv4 / /112 IPv6 / 8TB Bandwidth / 10Gbps Port / Bucharest, RO Location / Virtfusion Control Panel / 1 Free Backup/Snapshot' with '$45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the Coventry card: 'BudgetKVMCUK-3 / 8 Available / 8192MB RAM / 60GB SSD RAID-10 Hard drive / 4 cores @ Intel E5v4 CPU / 8TB Bandwidth / 10Gbps Port / Coventry, UK' with '$45.00 USD Annually'"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the German 8 GiB rung reads 'BudgetKVMDE-3 / 0 Available', and the New York rung 'BudgetKVMNYC-3 / 0 Available': stock is counted per location and some are empty"},{"url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"a full fetch of 320,626 bytes contains zero occurrences of 'renew' or 'recurring'; the only price form on every card is '$45.00 USD Annually'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:30:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"CONFIRMED on price and shape. USD 45.00 a year / 12 = USD 3.75 a month, one payment of USD 45.00, for 4 cores / 8192 MB / 60 GB NVMe RAID-10 / 8 TB at 10 Gbps. This is the cheapest 8 GiB row in the band. The caveat is that the renewal is genuinely not published: 320,626 bytes of page contain no 'renew' and no 'recurring', and every card prices only 'Annually'. The incumbent record called it a 'clearance' price against a 'list USD 40/mo'; I could not find any USD 40 monthly list price on this page, so I have not restated that figure. What is established is the annual charge and the absence of a published renewal. Treat month 13 as unknown rather than as USD 3.75. Stock is real and per-location: RO and CUK showed 8 available each, DE and NYC showed 0.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":4,"ram_gib":8,"disk_gib":60,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"annual prepay","term":"12 months","m10h_usd":3.75,"m24h_usd":3.75,"price_arithmetic":"USD 45.00 a year / 12 = USD 3.75 a month; one payment of USD 45.00. 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Month 13 is therefore unknown and its worst published case is 10.7x the clearance rate.","signup_url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale?language=english","cart_url":"https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale/budgetkvmro-3","worst_case_exposure_x":null,"worst_case_note":"not computable: the renewal is not published. 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