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Infomaniak will place a preauthorisation hold of CHF 20 on your card. Your card will not be debited; the amount will be released by your bank according to its own terms (usually within 7 days).' The page says 'bank card' rather than 'credit card', which suggests a debit card is accepted, but it does not say so explicitly and no card-type list is published on the page read.","country":null},"reliability_note":"No reliability event observed.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The CHF 300, the 3-month expiry, the 35-country list, the CHF 20 hold and the 10 TB egress allowance are all quoted from Infomaniak's own public-cloud pages read today. The instance shapes and hourly rates were behind a JavaScript table that did not render, so no shape is recorded.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/public-cloud","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Get started free of charge with CHF 300.- credits to be used within 3 months.'"},{"url":"https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/public-cloud/prices","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'The trial offer provides access to CHF 300 of credits for the Public Cloud product for 3 months, once per customer.'"},{"url":"https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/public-cloud/prices","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'A bank card is also required. Infomaniak will place a preauthorisation hold of CHF 20 on your card. 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The 35-country allowlist is a second gate that no amount of card solves, and it excludes China. Instance shapes and hourly rates were behind a table that did not render through the broker, so no shape and no USD-per-month figure are recorded rather than guessed. 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