{"rid":"compute/kagoya-cloud-vps","card":{"rid":"compute/kagoya-cloud-vps","eid":"kagoya","topic":"compute","slug":"kagoya-cloud-vps","provider":"KAGOYA CLOUD VPS","url":"https://www.kagoya.jp/vps/function-plan/","domain":"kagoya.jp","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":1,"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":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Day-rate billing with a monthly ceiling: the 1 GB plan is JPY 20 a day with a JPY 550 monthly cap, 2 GB with 2 cores and 200 GB NVMe is JPY 28 a day capped a...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":7},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"kagoya-cloud-vps","provider":"KAGOYA CLOUD VPS","url":"https://www.kagoya.jp/vps/function-plan/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"Day-rate billing with a monthly ceiling: the 1 GB plan is JPY 20 a day with a JPY 550 monthly cap, 2 GB with 2 cores and 200 GB NVMe is JPY 28 a day capped at JPY 770, and 4 GB with 4 cores and 600 GB NVMe is JPY 63 a day capped at JPY 1,760. Annual prepayment on the smallest plan is JPY 6,072, which the vendor presents as JPY 506 a month. 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There is no free lane, so a payment method is required at order. Whether prepaid cards are accepted is not stated, and no authorisation amount is stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.kagoya.jp/vps/function-plan/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the plan table gives 1 GB with 1 core and 100 GB NVMe at 日額20円 with 月額上限550円, 2 GB with 2 cores and 200 GB at 日額28円 capped at 770円, and 4 GB with 4 cores at 日額63円 capped at 1,760円, with 初期費用無料 and NVMe SSD on every plan"},{"url":"https://www.kagoya.jp/news/2025020631681/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the vendor's renewal notice states that the smallest plan is 1 core, 1 GB and 100 GB from JPY 506 a month on annual billing, that every plan uses NVMe, and that no metered billing arises from increased data transfer"},{"url":"https://support.kagoya.jp/vps/charge/payment.html","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"payment is by credit card or account transfer; debit cards are explicitly not accepted"},{"url":"https://www.serversus.work/services/kagoya-cloud-vps/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a third-party comparison states that KAGOYA CLOUD VPS has no free or trial period, and that the day rate makes the minimum commitment 24 hours; reported, not vendor-confirmed"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Kagoya has no free trial on VPS; its two-week free trial is on the shared rental server product, not this one, and the support FAQ says plans other than the shared and mail products carry a setup fee and cannot be trialled free. The JPY 506 monthly figure is annual prepayment divided by twelve, which the vendor itself does, and the JPY 550 figure is the monthly-billing cap; both are recorded because they are different prices for the same box. The absence of metered transfer billing is the vendor's claim on its own news page and is not probed.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-paid-floor","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":1,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.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":[]}