{"rid":"compute/ownkube","card":{"rid":"compute/ownkube","eid":"ownkube","topic":"compute","slug":"ownkube","provider":"Ownkube","url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","domain":"ownkube.io","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"trial-only","vorder":2,"grp":"trial","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"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":"No subscription and no perpetual free allowance: the entry plan is 'USD 0 / month - No subscription, top up from USD 5 - Unused credit rolls over, never expi...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"ownkube","provider":"Ownkube","url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"No subscription and no perpetual free allowance: the entry plan is 'USD 0 / month - No subscription, top up from USD 5 - Unused credit rolls over, never expires', and new accounts start 'with USD 5 of signup credit'. Metering, quoted: 'vCPU ~USD 0.00041 / vCPU-min', 'Memory ~USD 0.0001 / GiB-min', 'Bandwidth USD 0.02 to USD 0.13 / GB'. Reserved boxes: 'Spark 1 | 0.25 vCPU | 0.5 GiB | USD 5/mo' through 'Core 8 | 8 vCPU | 16 GiB | USD 232/mo'.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-off-credit"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"'vCPU ~USD 0.00041 / vCPU-min', 'Memory ~USD 0.0001 / GiB-min', 'Bandwidth USD 0.02 to USD 0.13 / GB', quoted","metered":true,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"prepaid credit that does not expire turns a monthly budget decision into a one-off one: USD 5 left in the wallet still runs a small app a year later, and the hourly meter means a job stopped promptly costs cents.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"the USD 5 credit is spent by the minute at about USD 0.0246 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.006 per GiB-hour, so it buys about 203 vCPU-hours and then the account pauses.","source":"https://ownkube.io/pricing"}],"limits_note":"the USD 5 credit is spent by the minute at about USD 0.0246 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.006 per GiB-hour, so it buys about 203 vCPU-hours and then the account pauses.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"the USD 5 credit is spent by the minute at about USD 0.0246 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.006 per GiB-hour, so it buys about 203 vCPU-hours and then the account pauses.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the prepaid wallet terms ('USD 0 / month - No subscription, top up from USD 5'), the per-vCPU and per-GiB metering, the reserved-box prices, and the USD 5 signup credit, and states nothing about what creating the account asks for. The word prepaid in that evidence describes the credit wallet, not prepaid card acceptance","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'USD 0 / month - No subscription, top up from USD 5 - Unused credit rolls over, never expires', quoted"},{"url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'vCPU ~USD 0.00041 / vCPU-min', 'Memory ~USD 0.0001 / GiB-min', 'Bandwidth USD 0.02 to USD 0.13 / GB', quoted"},{"url":"https://ownkube.io/pricing","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Spark 1 | 0.25 vCPU | 0.5 GiB | USD 5/mo' and 'Spark 2 | 0.5 vCPU | 1 GiB | USD 10/mo', quoted"},{"url":"https://ownkube.io/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Start with USD 5 of signup credit' and 'Usage draws prepaid credit, and a monthly cap can pause everything with your data kept', quoted"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Aggregator claim checked: free-for.dev says 'Free tier: the Starter plan runs everything on one instance in your own AWS account, no credit card needed (you pay AWS for the instance)'. That description is stale. The vendor now sells its own metered compute with a prepaid wallet, and the AWS bring-your-own-account arrangement is no longer on the site. The USD 5 signup credit is the only free capacity, and it is a one-off, not a monthly grant.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"aggregator-correction","free_tier_kind":"one-off-credit","shape":{"vcpu":0.25,"ram_gib":0.5,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":0.5,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":5,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.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":[]}