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So signing up for the free Console tier takes no card and no hold exists there, and no compute is obtained either, because the Console contributes no runtime; the record does not state what the Console signup asks for — an email or a GitHub account — nor the AWS account's card terms, debit or prepaid acceptance","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://sst.dev/docs/console/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Free Tier: Workspaces with 350 active resources or fewer'; 351 resources in a month bills USD 30.20 at USD 0.086 per resource; the count resets monthly, quoted"},{"url":"https://sst.dev/docs/console/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the Console is completely free to get started and an account can be created without a credit card; going over the free tier blocks production and deployed stages until billing details are added, while personal stages stay accessible, quoted"},{"url":"https://sst.dev/docs/console/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a resource is what SST creates in your cloud provider and is active if its stage is at least two weeks old and was updated during the month, quoted"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Names Sst, and sst.dev/pricing returns 404 while sst.dev/docs/console carries the pricing, so the record is written against the docs page. Candidates: (a) SST Ion hosts the app itself; refuted, the Console only supports apps deployed to AWS and the resource count is of AWS resources. (b) The 350-resource tier is a trial; refuted, the free tier is monthly and recurring. Verdict is paid-only because no free runtime exists, even though the tooling fee is zero.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"bring-your-own-cloud","free_tier_kind":"free-control-plane","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.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":[]}