{"rid":"compute/servercrate","card":{"rid":"compute/servercrate","eid":"servercrate","topic":"compute","slug":"servercrate","provider":"ServerCrate","url":"https://servercrate.net/","domain":"servercrate.net","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","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":"rest","egress_metered":0,"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":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"10 GB of encrypted backup storage free, with no credit card and no expiry: 2 devices and 7 days of snapshot history, over a private Restic REST endpoint on a...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":7},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"servercrate","provider":"ServerCrate","url":"https://servercrate.net/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"10 GB of encrypted backup storage free, with no credit card and no expiry: 2 devices and 7 days of snapshot history, over a private Restic REST endpoint on a per-customer ZFS dataset. The paid ladder runs 250 GB with 10 devices and 30-day history, then 1 TB with 25 devices and 60-day history, then 2 TB with 50 devices and 90-day history, then 5 TB with 100 devices and 180-day history, the last still on a waitlist; the product card prices backup vaults at 'Free, then $2/mo' and the individual tier price lines did not survive extraction. The same host sells KVM cloud servers on NVMe, Proxmox Backup Server datastores, hosted Borg repositories and website hosting, and states no egress fees on restore. Annual billing is ten months for twelve.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://servercrate.net/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"perpetual"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://servercrate.net/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://servercrate.net/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"no egress fees on restore, and no restore penalties or per-API-call charges stated; the vendor also states no egress fees on the cloud server line","metered":false,"free_allowance":"unmetered egress; the free tier is capped at 10 GB of stored bytes","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://servercrate.net/"},"interface":["rest"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"the strongest tooling story: plain Restic over HTTP against a private REST endpoint, a one-line install script, a free desktop app for Mac and Windows, and a public restore-verification monitor at status.servercrate.net. It is an append-capable backup target and not a filesystem, so it cannot be mounted like a bucket","chaining":"10 GB free with client-side encryption and no egress fee is the cheapest offsite copy of the corpus index and the configuration that for a user would lose first, and the free tier never expires, so it costs nothing to hold. 10 GB does not touch the 20 TiB archive: this is a backup target for metadata and keys, and the bulk bytes need a paid tier or another host","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"the binding count is stored bytes rather than transferred bytes: 10 GB on the free tier against a stated 'no backup or bandwidth caps' and 'No egress fees on restore'. The seven vocabulary kinds have no separate name for a storage-size cap, so this is filed as volume-quota and the distinction is stated here rather than left to the kind. Nothing binds on transfer.","source":"https://servercrate.net/"}],"limits_note":"the binding count is stored bytes rather than transferred bytes: 10 GB on the free tier against a stated 'no backup or bandwidth caps' and 'No egress fees on restore'. The seven vocabulary kinds have no separate name for a storage-size cap, so this is filed as volume-quota and the distinction is stated here rather than left to the kind. Nothing binds on transfer.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"the binding count is stored bytes rather than transferred bytes: 10 GB on the free tier against a stated 'no backup or bandwidth caps' and 'No egress fees on restore'. The seven vocabulary kinds have no separate name for a storage-size cap, so this is filed as volume-quota and the distinction is stated here rather than left to the kind. Nothing binds on transfer.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not read: the signup page was not fetched the vendor page states the free plan 'activates instantly' with 'No credit card required'","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://servercrate.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"vendor page quoted: '10 GB free, no credit card'; '$ 0 /mo $ 0 /yr' with '10 GB encrypted storage', '2 devices', '7-day snapshot history'; '10 GB free tier never expires. No egress fees on restore'; 'No backup or bandwidth caps'; product card 'Backup Vaults Free, then $2/mo'; paid tiers listed at '250 GB encrypted storage', '1 TB encrypted storage', '2 TB encrypted storage' and '5 TB encrypted storage ... Opening soon, join the waitlist'"},{"url":"https://lowendbox.com/blog/lets-try-servercrate-restic-based-backups-you-can-start-using-for-free/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"third-party offer post, published 2026-09-27: 'You can get started for FREE with a 10GB vault. I think that is really cool, because it is enough to actually give it a try and use it productively. It is not time-limited'; the walkthrough shows a working 'restic init' against 'rest:https://vaultuser:...@<vaultid>.vault.servercrate.net/' and a first snapshot of 709 files"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Not in dossier/compute (searched: servercrate, no record). The vendor's own domain is servercrate.net and not servercrate.com: the first fetch attempted used the .com and the broker answered with an HTTP 530 failure, which established nothing about the provider the .net URL from the offer post answered 200.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"perpetual","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"disk_gib":10,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":10,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":10,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.notes","partly-held"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}