{"rid":"compute/openworld","card":{"rid":"compute/openworld","eid":"openworld","topic":"compute","slug":"openworld","provider":"Openworld","url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","domain":"openworld.eu.org","category":"cloud VM","tier":"free plan","verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"retention-clamped","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":1,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"ssh","egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":7,"verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:05:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-25","stale_on":"2026-11-24","n_evidence":13,"usd_month":0,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"A free container VPS: 'Every plan includes NAT IPv4, and the free plan includes a dedicated public IPv6 address.' No price is stated for the free plan; the h...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"openworld","provider":"Openworld","url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"A free container VPS: 'Every plan includes NAT IPv4, and the free plan includes a dedicated public IPv6 address.' No price is stated for the free plan; the home page says 'For developers & students, no card required just Discord.' The vendor publishes no shape, but a user's benchmark posted in the vendor's own LowEndTalk thread on 2026-08-24 reports 1 vCPU at 3092 MHz, 512 MiB RAM, 512 MiB swap and 4.8 GiB disk on Ubuntu 26.04 under LXC.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","read_on":"2026-10-24","notes":"the vendor publishes no CPU, RAM or disk figure"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: the unit is a container, not an object"},"retention":{"stated":"Quoted: 'Free VPS periods last 7 days. Renewal is free and can be done once every 24 hours to reset the countdown — an unrenewed VPS gets auto-suspended, so just keep renewing to keep it alive.'","days":7,"source_url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","notes":"suspension, not deletion, is what the FAQ names for an unrenewed box; whether a suspended container's disk is deleted, and after how long, is not stated"},"egress":{"terms":null,"metered":false,"free_allowance":"unstated","source_url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq"},"interface":["ssh"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"Root SSH with password or key at creation, systemd inside the container, Docker allowed, panel reinstall. Login through Discord OAuth.","chaining":"A throwaway IPv6 container with a dedicated public address is the cheapest way to test an inbound service or hold a trickle of state for a week. It composes badly with anything long-running: the 7-day clock and the 35% CPU throttle rule out indexing and builds.","limits":[{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"the free period is 7 days and must be renewed by hand at most once every 24 hours; an unrenewed VPS is auto-suspended","source":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq"},{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"one free container per account is implied by the FAQ's singular 'your VPS' but is not stated as a number anywhere read","source":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq"}],"limits_note":"The lifetime is seven days and renewal is a manual click that can be done once every 24 hours, so an unattended container is suspended within a week","binding":"retention-clamped","binding_note":"a 7-day clock that resets only when a human renews is the first thing that fails: any outage of the client's own attention past 7 days suspends the machine","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"No card and no hold: the home page says 'no card required just Discord', and the FAQ says 'no trial, no card required'. Sign-in is through Clerk (clerk.openworld.eu.org) on the /login page, whose form is a single 'Sign in' button and carries no card, phone or document field; the page footer credits 'Dxomg'. Whether the Clerk instance offers an email-only sign-up or requires a social account was not established: the button is rendered disabled until the Clerk JavaScript loads, so the flow could not be read from the markup.","country":null},"reliability_note":"one transient outage reported in the vendor's own LowEndTalk thread on 2026-08-24, when a user wrote 'looks like the server is dead beyond repair' and the operator replied 'There was a little downtime on the i7-4510U, but should be back'; the vendor publishes a HetrixTools status page whose 7-day table rendered with no values on the day read","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the counter block reads 'Nodes: 3 / VPS: 145 / IPs: 2,220 / Users: 3,747'; probe 200, 19342 bytes, sha256 91731a8d688d96d797b1a2163b06f1d6a8b263d562172351ef250256bacf3ff8"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Yes. The free tier is permanent as long as you renew it - no trial, no card required' and 'Free VPS periods last 7 days. Renewal is free and can be done once every 24 hours to reset the countdown - an unrenewed VPS gets auto-suspended', quoted"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Do I get an IPv4 address? Yes. Every plan includes NAT IPv4, and the free plan includes a dedicated public IPv6 address.' and 'How long does provisioning take? Under a second.', quoted"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220420/free-openworld-eu-org-free-ipv6-vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"512MB ram 5GB Disk... x1 IPv6 Public IP (Route64)... x1 IPv4 NAT... Bandwidth: 50GB/week, once you hit the limit it will throttle to 1mbps... Location: Honduras' - and warns 'this is not at all a professional thing... operated on consumer hardware with no support or guarantees, this service could go down at any moment', quoted"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220420/free-openworld-eu-org-free-ipv6-vps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"CPU is throttled by policy: 'if there's a consistent 35%+ for 5minutes usage of the cpu it will get throttled automatically to 10%', quoted"},{"url":"https://github.com/weikkadd/openworlvps","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"third-party renewal automation exists for this provider, a Playwright script that logs in through Discord OAuth, solves the GIF captcha by frame voting and renews before expiry, which is evidence both that the 7-day cycle is real and that people find it onerous"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Free VPS periods last 7 days. Renewal is free and can be done once every 24 hours to reset the countdown — an unrenewed VPS gets auto-suspended'"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Yes. Every plan includes NAT IPv4, and the free plan includes a dedicated public IPv6 address.' and 'You log in as root over SSH, with the password (or key) you set during creation.'"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/faq","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Yes. The free tier is permanent as long as you renew it — no trial, no card required.'"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted: 'Free IPv6 VPS', 'For developers & students, no card required just Discord.', and the counters 'Nodes: 3', 'VPS: 145', 'IPs: 2,220', 'Users: 3,908'"},{"url":"https://openworld.eu.org/login","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"the served markup: a Clerk sign-in button, seven theme forms, and no card, phone or identity input; footer 'Openworld, made with love by Dxomg'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220420/free-openworld-eu-org-free-ipv6-vps","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"a user's YABS benchmark posted 2026-08-24: 'CPU cores : 1 @ 3092.814 MHz', 'RAM : 512.0 MiB', 'Swap : 512.0 MiB', 'Disk : 4.8 GiB', 'VM Type : LXC', 'IPv4/IPv6 : Online / Online', 'ASN : AS212895 Johannes Ernst', 'Location : Ashburn, Virginia'; and the operator replying as @dxomg"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/220420/free-openworld-eu-org-free-ipv6-vps","date":"2026-10-24","proved":"quoted from the thread: a user wrote 'looks like the server is dead beyond repair' and the operator @dxomg replied 'There was a little downtime on the i7-4510U, but should be back' — a transient outage, acknowledged and answered by the operator"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-24T06:05:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute before this record. The vendor publishes no shape at all; What could not be established: the traffic allowance, whether a suspended container's data is deleted, and whether Clerk registration needs anything beyond an email. What would settle them: the deploy page behind the panel, which requires an account. The 7-day renewal is the reason this is a caveat rather than a clean qualify.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"perpetual-vps","free_tier_kind":"perpetual-7-day-renewable","shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.5,"disk_gib":5,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}},"shape":{"vcpu":1,"ram_gib":0.5,"disk_gib":4.8,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null},"billing_model":"free","term":"7-day renewal","m10h_usd":0,"m24h_usd":0,"price_arithmetic":"no price: the free plan costs nothing and no payment method is collected","free_tier_kind":"renewable-free","network_out":{"allow_outbound":true,"allow_inbound_listen":true,"ports":"dedicated public IPv6 plus NAT IPv4; the forwarded-port count is not stated","static_ip":true,"ipv6":true,"per_session_bytes":null},"session_cap":{"wall_clock_min":10080,"idle_reap_s":null,"restart_required":false,"note":"7-day free period; renewal resets it and is allowed once per 24 hours"},"fleet_counters":{"nodes":3,"vps":145,"ips":2220,"users":3908,"as_read":"2026-10-24, self-reported by the vendor"},"shape_source":"reported: a user's YABS run in the vendor's LowEndTalk thread, 2026-08-24, 'CPU cores : 1 @ 3092.814 MHz', 'RAM : 512.0 MiB', 'Swap : 512.0 MiB', 'Disk : 4.8 GiB', 'VM Type : LXC'; the vendor itself publishes no shape"},"tier":"free plan","confidence_note":"retention, network, root SSH and the no-card statement are quoted from first-party pages read today, and those are the fields the verdict rests on. it does not move the verdict, so the record's rung is documented. 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