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The SDK signature gives timeout_seconds a default of 'no timeout', the docs illustrate 5 minutes to 4 hours, and the marketing page claims 'Up to 30 days runtime'. No page states a maximum, so whether a 730-hour timeout is accepted is undocumented.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"The pricing page states 'No credit card required' and '$200 free credits'; no card, no phone and no ID are mentioned. IMPORTANT: the console at console.hopx.ai (and console.hopx.dev, which the docs link to) offers ONLY 'Connect to HopX with: Google GitHub' — a browser OAuth button pair, with no email-and-password field anywhere on the page. The account is therefore created by an OAuth identity, not by an email form. No hold exists because no payment method is taken.","country":null},"reliability_note":"The pricing page's own worked example prices a 1 vCPU / 1 GiB / 10 GiB hour at '$0.05', while its rate card gives USD 0.06768 for the same hour, a 26% understatement.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"Credit, the three unit rates, the OAuth-only console, the template-bound resources and the timeout semantics were each read on a first-party page today. The maximum shape and the maximum timeout are not published; both are marked unverified and a create call against a known template would settle them.","evidence":[{"url":"https://hopx.ai/pricing","date":"2026-10-02","proved":null},{"url":"https://hopx.ai/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'No subscriptions. No minimum commitments. No idle charges. Launch sandboxes in milliseconds, pay by the second, scale to zero when done.' with 'No credit card required, $200 free credits', 'Compute (vCPU) $0.00001400/second', 'Memory (GiB) $0.00000450/second', 'Storage (GiB) $0.00000003/second' and 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage', quoted"},{"url":"https://hopx.ai/pricing","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'No credit card required', '$200 free credits', 'Compute (vCPU) $0.00001400/second', 'Memory (GiB) $0.00000450/second', 'Storage (GiB) $0.00000003/second', 'Enough for ~4,000 hours of basic usage', and the example '1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB storage ... $0.05'."},{"url":"https://docs.hopx.ai/core-concepts/sandboxes/creating.md","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Resources (vcpu, memory, disk) are always loaded from the template. You cannot specify custom resources when creating a sandbox. 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