{"rid":"compute/hostkey","card":{"rid":"compute/hostkey","eid":"hostkey","topic":"compute","slug":"hostkey","provider":"HOSTKEY","url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","domain":"hostkey.ru","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"No free trial, stated in the provider's own words on two pages, while a third page offers three days of free access and the refund documentation invites a re...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"hostkey","provider":"HOSTKEY","url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"No free trial, stated in the provider's own words on two pages, while a third page offers three days of free access and the refund documentation invites a request to discuss free testing, so the provider publishes two answers at once. What is real is hourly billing on every virtual server: the machine is charged from delivery to cancellation, so a few hours of a full machine cost a few roubles and the unused remainder of a month returns to the balance as credit rather than as money. The cheapest shape is vm.v2-pico at 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, a 1 Gbit/s port and 3 TB of traffic included, for RUB 490 a month.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"Hourly billing is the composition this provider offers: at RUB 490 a month a machine costs about RUB 0.67 an hour, so the whole catalogue can be benchmarked for the price of a coffee, and 3 TB of included traffic on a 1 Gbit/s port is the cheapest per-terabyte allowance found at RUB 163 a terabyte.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"The included traffic is the first thing to fail at a user's  volume: 3 TB a month is about 100 GB a day, and the port at 1 Gbit/s could move thirty times that, so the allowance rather than the link is the ceiling.","source":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/"}],"limits_note":"The included traffic is the first thing to fail at a user's  volume: 3 TB a month is about 100 GB a day, and the port at 1 Gbit/s could move thirty times that, so the allowance rather than the link is the ceiling.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"The included traffic is the first thing to fail at a user's  volume: 3 TB a month is about 100 GB a day, and the port at 1 Gbit/s could move thirty times that, so the allowance rather than the link is the ceiling.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"payment is in roubles by Russian bank cards including Mir, by bank transfer and by electronic payment systems, so a card is one accepted rail rather than a stated requirement; there is no free tier to gate. The record does not state whether signup asks for an email, a phone or an ID document, whether a card issued outside Russia works — its notes say the payment page names Mir and Russian transfers only — or any hold, debit or prepaid answer","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/vps-vds-testovyy-period/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'We do not provide a free trial period for virtual machines', followed on the same page by a trial that requires paying for one month and cancelling, with the remainder returned to the balance, quoted and translated"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/arenda-virtualnoy-mashiny/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Yes. We give free access to the chosen server for three days', which contradicts the trial page and the FAQ on the same site"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/documentation/faq/server_rental/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'We do not provide a trial period for our servers. You can order a server for the minimum period and then refuse it, paying only for the time of actual use', quoted and translated"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/deshevyj/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"cheapest plan vm.v2-pico: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, 1 Gbit/s port with 3 TB of included traffic, RUB 490 a month, quoted"},{"url":"https://hostkey.ru/vps/s-testovym-periodom/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"payment is in roubles by Russian bank cards including Mir, by bank transfer and by electronic payment systems, with locations in Moscow, Europe, Turkey and the United States"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New provider for the corpus. Recorded as paid-only because the provider's own FAQ and trial page both say there is no free trial; the three-day claim on the marketing page is not a contract and is contradicted twice on the same domain, so a reader should treat it as copy rather than as an offer. Arithmetic: 490 / 730 = 0.67 RUB an hour; 490 / 3 = 163 RUB a terabyte. Not established: which of the two trial statements is honoured in practice, since that needs an account and a support conversation, and whether foreign cards work (the payment page names Mir and Russian transfers only).","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-no-trial","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0,"disk_gib":40,"port_mbit":1000}}}},"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":3,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.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":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/hostkey","other":"compute/hostkey-windows","field":"verdict","a":"paid-only","b":"qualifies-with-caveat","detail":null}]}