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The trial does not expire into nothing: 'If you wish to cancel the free trial, you can simply terminate your server without incurring any charges. However, if you do not cancel before the trial ends, we will begin charging for services used.'","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/free-trial/","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"time-boxed at 30 days, then it converts to paid automatically unless the server is terminated"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"The trial is 30 days from the first server, not from signup: 'Your 30-day Free Trial does not begin the moment you sign up; it only starts once you create your first server ... your trial period will remain \"on hold\" until you are ready to launch your first project.' It then auto-converts: 'if you do not cancel before the trial ends, we will begin charging for services used.' Billing is post-hoc, so the first invoice arrives after the trial: 'if you start the free trial on March 15th, it will expire on April 15th and your first invoice will be emailed to you in May. The invoice in May will include a prorated charge for April 15th through the end of the month in addition to the entire month of May.'","days":30,"source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-if-i-signed-up-but-im-not-ready-to-start-my-free-trial-yet/","notes":"the server and its disk persist through the trial and into paid billing unless terminated; a cancelled trial leaves no charge"},"egress":{"terms":"'1 TB of traffic (incoming/outgoing)' during the trial; the counter is shared in and out, so the 1 TB is the sum. After the trial the rate is quoted per GB on the traffic FAQ, which was read only as a search snippet and is therefore not recorded as a number here.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"1 TB","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":null,"tooling":"not stated","chaining":"not stated","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"'you may create one server with a configuration costing up to $100' - one server, not a pool","source":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"'1 TB of free traffic (including both inbound and outbound traffic)'","source":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"30 days, then automatic conversion to paid billing unless the server is terminated before the trial ends","source":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/"}],"limits_note":"one server, USD 100 of configuration and 1 TB of shared in/out traffic for 30 days, after which billing starts by itself","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Card required even to start the trial, and no hold amount is published anywhere read: 'In order to activate your your free trial, you must enter a credit credit. The card will not be charged for any usage that is within the limitations of our free trial.' Debit and PREPAID are accepted in writing: 'We accept all major credit and debit cards, provided they include the cardholder's name. This includes virtual, prepaid, and electronic cards.' PayPal is refused for a new account: 'New Accounts: For security reasons, the initial activation must be completed using a credit or debit card.' Where a card is declined the vendor offers a prepayment instead: 'If, for some reason, your card is not accepted, you will be given the option to make a pre-payment in the form of a deposit which can be made via PayPal.' A deposit can also be demanded ad hoc: 'We occasionally request a fully refundable security deposit when our system detects unusual billing activity (such as multiple card attempts).' An identity document is not part of signup; a manual verification asking for a 2-second video holding an ID is indexed by the vendor's own search but both of its answer pages returned 410 today, so it is not asserted here.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed nothing was signed up for","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the trial's shape, its 30-day term, the automatic conversion to paid and the card rules are each quoted from a first-party Kamatera page read today. The hold is a dash because no amount is published; the ad-hoc deposit is quoted but its trigger is the vendor's own risk scoring, so it is recorded as a possibility rather than a term.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/free-trial/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"quoted: 'Sign up for a free 30-day trial to receive cloud services worth up to $100' and '1 cloud server valued up to $100'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"quoted presets: Basic $4/mo 1 vCPU/1 GB, Standard $25/mo 2 vCPU/2 GB, Pro $39/mo 2 vCPU/4 GB; the only hourly figure rendered is the calculator default at $0.014/hr"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/Products/44/Cloud-Server-Trial","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"404 on 2026-10-23 with no archive capture"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/which-payment-methods-do-you-accept/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'We accept all major credit and debit cards, provided they include the cardholder’s name. This includes virtual, prepaid, and electronic cards.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/can-i-sign-up-for-the-free-trial-without-a-credit-card/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'In order to activate your your free trial, you must enter a credit credit. The card will not be charged for any usage that is within the limitations of our free trial.' (the vendor's own duplicated words)"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/do-you-accept-paypal/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'New Accounts: For security reasons, the initial activation must be completed using a credit or debit card.' PayPal is enabled only after a card activation"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/free-trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Sign up for a free 30-day trial to receive cloud services worth up to $100', '1 cloud server valued up to $100 with the configuration of your choice', '1 TB of cloud block storage', '1 TB of traffic (incoming/outgoing)'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the conversion: 'If you wish to cancel the free trial, you can simply terminate your server without incurring any charges. However, if you do not cancel before the trial ends, we will begin charging for services used.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'During the 30-day trial period, you may create one server with a configuration costing up to $100.' and 'You will have 1 TB of free traffic (including both inbound and outbound traffic).'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/which-payment-methods-do-you-accept/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted verbatim, the prepaid sentence: 'We accept all major credit and debit cards, provided they include the cardholder’s name. This includes virtual, prepaid, and electronic cards.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/can-i-sign-up-for-the-free-trial-without-a-credit-card/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'In order to activate your your free trial, you must enter a credit credit. The card will not be charged for any usage that is within the limitations of our free trial.' (the vendor's own duplicated words) plus the deposit fallback 'you will be given the option to make a pre-payment in the form of a deposit which can be made via PayPal'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/do-you-accept-paypal/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'New Accounts: For security reasons, the initial activation must be completed using a credit or debit card.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-if-i-signed-up-but-im-not-ready-to-start-my-free-trial-yet/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, when the clock starts: 'Your 30-day Free Trial does not begin the moment you sign up; it only starts once you create your first server ... your trial period will remain \"on hold\" until you are ready to launch your first project.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/how-does-billing-work/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted, the post-trial invoice: 'if you start the free trial on March 15th, it will expire on April 15th and your first invoice will be emailed to you in May. The invoice in May will include a prorated charge for April 15th through the end of the month in addition to the entire month of May.'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/why-am-i-being-asked-to-make-a-deposit-during-my-30-day-free-trial-period/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'We occasionally request a fully refundable security deposit when our system detects unusual billing activity (such as multiple card attempts).' and 'the amount can be refunded at any time or applied to future invoices'"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-documents-are-required-for-verification/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"410 Gone today: the page the vendor's own search index lists for ID documents does not resolve, so no document requirement is asserted"},{"url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-is-the-manual-verification-process/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"410 Gone today: the manual-verification answer does not resolve either, so the ID-video step is not asserted"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-24T04:09:20.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"TRIAL VERIFIED 2026-10-24. The shape is one server of any configuration up to USD 100, plus 1 TB of block storage and 1 TB of traffic in and out, for 30 days. Its real end is the part worth stating plainly: the trial CONVERTS TO PAID BY DEFAULT. 'if you do not cancel before the trial ends, we will begin charging for services used', and because billing is post-hoc the first invoice lands in the month after the trial with a prorated charge for the trial's tail. Cancelling means terminating the server; that is free. Card: required, no published hold, and the ad-hoc USD 10 deposit a vendor FAQ describes is a refundable security deposit triggered by its own risk scoring, not a standing hold. Debit, prepaid, virtual and electronic cards are accepted in writing, which makes this the one unambiguous 'prepaid works' statement in the corpus - verified verbatim on the vendor's own FAQ answer page today, not taken from a snippet. PayPal is refused for a new account but accepted for a deposit when a card is declined, which is the route that makes the trial reachable without a card that passes authorisation. One detail worth having: the 30 days do not start at signup. 'Your 30-day Free Trial does not begin the moment you sign up; it only starts once you create your first server', so an account can be opened, a card bound and the trial left 'on hold' indefinitely until a machine is wanted. The clock that converts to paid starts on first deploy, not on registration. The ID-video verification step is still unverified: both answer pages return 410 Gone today, so it stays out of the detail.","extras":{"talaria_m10h_usd":8.22,"talaria_m24h_usd":19.73,"nemo_m10h_usd":8.22,"keep_rate":1,"keep_rate_basis":null,"billing_model":"flat-pool","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram":1,"disk":20,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"note":"the entry shape; threads are dedicated rather than shared"},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":null,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"a monthly or hourly server; no session clock"},"persistent_storage":null,"network_out":null,"price_note":"a VPS bills by the month with an hourly rate capped at the monthly figure, so the two columns answer two questions: destroying the box between runs versus keeping it up.","free_tier_kind":"trial","m10h_usd":8.22,"m24h_usd":19.73,"price_basis":"10 h/day column = 300 h at the hourly rate, which is what a server destroyed between runs costs; 24/7 column = the monthly cap, because a VPS kept up all month stops at the cap. Rates re-read on the vendor pricing page on 2026-10-23.","burst_x":1.0333,"ps":{"gib":20,"price":"included in the server price; extra storage is $0.05 a GB a month","durability":"NVMe SSD SAN","on_stop":true,"on_destroy":false,"retention":"while the server exists"},"net":{"out":true,"in":true,"ports":"any","static_ip":true,"ipv6":null,"allowance":null},"wave2":{"merged_agents":["b10-regional-deep"],"merged_evidence_rows":4,"merged_note":"A 30-day free trial: one cloud server whose configuration costs up to USD 100, 1 TB of cloud block storage and 1 TB of traffic in and out, with full platform features and the ability to resize within the USD 100 envelope.","verdict_change":"trial-only -> trial-only on 2026-10-22"},"payment_methods":{"card_at_signup":"yes","debit":"accepted","prepaid":"accepted","virtual":"accepted","hold_amount":null,"hold_detail":"no hold amount published; the card is not charged within the trial limits, and a fully refundable deposit is requested only when the vendor's risk scoring fires","identity":"email plus card; the ID-video verification answer pages return 410 today, so no document step is asserted","source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/which-payment-methods-do-you-accept/","read_on":"2026-10-24"},"trial_end":{"converts_to_paid":true,"cancel_action":"terminate the server","first_invoice":"the month after the trial expires, including a prorated charge for the trial tail","source_url":"https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/how-does-billing-work/"},"r04_2026_10_24":{"question":"does the trial convert to paid, and does prepaid work","answer":"it converts by default; prepaid, debit and virtual cards are accepted verbatim, and PayPal is accepted for a deposit when a card is declined","routes_tried":["broker read 200 /free-trial/","broker read 200 /faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/","broker read 200 /faq/answer/which-payment-methods-do-you-accept/","broker read 200 /faq/answer/how-does-billing-work/","broker read 200 /faq/answer/why-am-i-being-asked-to-make-a-deposit-during-my-30-day-free-trial-period/","broker read 410 /faq/answer/what-documents-are-required-for-verification/","broker read 410 /faq/answer/what-is-the-manual-verification-process/"]}},"binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"one server at up to USD 100 is the real ceiling: the money is generous but it cannot be spread over two machines, and the 30-day conversion means the decision to keep it is made by doing nothing"},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.m10h_usd","kind":"price","num":8.22,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":8.22,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.extras.m24h_usd","kind":"price","num":19.73,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":19.73,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[1].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[2].value","kind":"limit:retention-clamped","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.chaining","not-stated"],["$.extras.keep_rate_basis","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.interface_detail","withheld"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-stated"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[{"hid":"history/2026-10-22T144500Z/compute-kamatera-card-gate.md","when":"2026-10-22T14:45:00Z","status":"corrected","title":"Kamatera's trial needs a card, not an email"}],"drift":[{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/kamatera","other":"compute/kamatera-basic","field":"verdict","a":"trial-only","b":"qualifies","detail":null},{"kind":"duplicate-disagrees","subject":"compute/kamatera","other":"compute/kamatera-windows","field":"verdict","a":"trial-only","b":"paid-only","detail":null}]}