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At a user's  volume the credit is nine times larger than the window it lives in.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"Maintaining a valid credit card on file with your account is a requirement of our Master Services Agreement.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"unused promo credit expires at 60 days; plans that bundle no transfer bill every outbound byte","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"the $100 and 60 days come from an archived copy of Linode's own documentation; the current /lp/free-credit/ path returns 404 and the pricing page renders no credit line. The $0.005 overage rate is third-party. A current first-party page carrying both would raise this to documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.linode.com/pricing/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Older plans include transfer that scales based on plan family and size, from 0 TB to 20 TB per month. G8 and GPU accelerated plans do not include bundled transfer or egress with the plan' and 'Maintaining a valid credit card on file with your account is a requirement'"},{"url":"https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/network-transfer-usage-and-costs","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'You are only billed for additional network transfer if your usage exceeds the global or data center-specific pools during a billing period'"},{"url":"https://archive.ph/4yiBQ","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"archived Linode documentation: 'Create an account to try this guide with a $100 credit. This credit will be applied to any valid services used during your first 60 days.'"},{"url":"https://wiki.licenseware.io/wiki/akamai-cloud-pricing-and-billing/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third party: 'In North America the overage price is US$0.005 per GB', with pooled transfer and only outbound metered"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 100 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $100 over $0.005 a GB is 20,000 GB = 20 TB = 18.19 TiB in total, or 9.09 TiB a month across 60 days. If the rate is $0.01 instead the credit is 10,000 GB = 9.09 TiB total and 4.55 TiB a month, which still clears the test, so the verdict does not depend on which of the two rates is right. The included transfer is the second lever: a plan that bundles 20 TB a month makes the credit irrelevant at 1 TiB a month, and the pricing page confirms bundles run 'from 0 TB to 20 TB per month'. Candidates considered: the Akamai Free Tier products line, which the page mentions for Object Storage rather than compute.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"a Compute Instance with a public IPv4; wg-quick binds UDP with no vendor component in the path","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":9.09,"volume_stated":"$100 of credit at $0.005 per GB is 18.2 TiB, or 9.1 TiB a month across the 60-day window, plus the plan's included transfer of 0 to 20 TB a month","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"outbound bytes cross Akamai's network and draw on a global transfer pool before any overage is billed"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":100,"unit":"credit","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":18.2,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":100,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":100,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}