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A Singapore StarHub-shape instance at 1 vCPU / 256 MB / 500 GB renews at CNY 12 a month. The merchant also issues free machines, mostly a Japanese line it calls 狗妈, and resale listings trade those free instances at CNY 180 to CNY 600, which is the market's own valuation of a perpetual-free box.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"perpetual"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"A NAT instance shares one IPv4 with other tenants and is reached by port mapping, so the first thing that fails is inbound service, not bandwidth; the 2 TB allowance sits behind a shared address and a reseller-priced coupon, and a coupon that is not renewed ends the machine.","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"CNY 2.62 a month for a Hong Kong NAT box with 2 TB is the cheapest egress-heavy node found, and it composes with a tunnel for inbound; the shared IPv4 and the coupon dependency are what break it.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"A NAT instance shares one IPv4 with other tenants and is reached by port mapping, so the first thing that fails is inbound service, not bandwidth; the 2 TB allowance sits behind a shared address and a reseller-priced coupon, and a coupon that is not renewed ends the machine.","source":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1"}],"limits_note":"A NAT instance shares one IPv4 with other tenants and is reached by port mapping, so the first thing that fails is inbound service, not bandwidth; the 2 TB allowance sits behind a shared address and a reseller-priced coupon, and a coupon that is not renewed ends the machine.","binding":"per-ip-shaping","binding_note":"A NAT instance shares one IPv4 with other tenants and is reached by port mapping, so the first thing that fails is inbound service, not bandwidth; the 2 TB allowance sits behind a shared address and a reseller-priced coupon, and a coupon that is not renewed ends the machine.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"Not established. The merchant sells through its own panel and the forum threads describe purchases and transfers, not the signup fields.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-620036-1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a test post is titled 懒猫云香港1区NAT湾仔Basic ￥2.62/月 2TB and states the buyer used a 75-percent-off code, quoted from the snippet"},{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-944640-1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a resale listing gives a StarHub Nano shape at 1 core / 256 MB / 500 GB with 续费价格 ￥12.00 / 1个月 and a permanent 20-percent discount, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-966472-1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"free machines are traded as inventory: 日本免费机...每台 550, 日本 kddi 二区 免费机...每台 180, quoted"},{"url":"https://www.nodeseek.com/post-470939-1","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the merchant is described as 新起的Nat小鸡商家 that issues free machines from time to time, which dates the operation to a recent entrant"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"New to the corpus, and the cheapest monthly figure. Two cautions are recorded in the entry itself: the 2.62 figure came from a promotion code and is not the list price, and the free machines are a marketing device whose renewal depends on the merchant continuing to hand out coupons. The resale prices are the most useful datum, because they show what the market pays for a perpetual-free instance when it cannot be obtained directly.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-floor-price","free_tier_kind":"perpetual","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.25,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null,"disk_gib":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":2,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-ip-shaping","num":2,"unit":"TB","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":[]}