{"rid":"egress/sakura-internet-vps","card":{"rid":"egress/sakura-internet-vps","eid":"sakura","topic":"egress","slug":"sakura-internet-vps","provider":"Sakura Internet VPS","url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","domain":"sakura.ad.jp","category":"vps (hosted, Japan)","tier":"free","verdict":"trial-only","vorder":2,"grp":"trial","confidence":"documented","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"ssh,cli,rest","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-23","stale_on":"2026-11-22","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":5.0497,"summary":"[translated] 'If you select credit-card payment when you apply, you can try every plan free for two weeks.'","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":2},"record":{"topic":"egress","slug":"sakura-internet-vps","provider":"Sakura Internet VPS","url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","category":"vps (hosted, Japan)","tier":"free","free_tier":{"stated":"[translated] 'If you select credit-card payment when you apply, you can try every plan free for two weeks.'","unit":"hours","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","read_on":"2026-10-23","notes":""},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","notes":""},"egress":{"terms":"[translated] 'Every plan is free for two weeks.' No traffic allowance is stated on the page read; the free window is 14 days.; ingress: tcp+udp","metered":false,"free_allowance":"none published","price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/"},"interface":["ssh","cli","rest"],"interface_detail":"[translated] The control panel handles restart, OS reinstall and resource viewing in the browser; every plan ships SSD storage standard.","tooling":"wg-quick inside the guest; any client works because the guest is a full VM","chaining":"A 14-day Japanese KVM guest is enough to measure whether a Tokyo address is what a target cares about, and to carry a WireGuard endpoint while it lasts.","limits":[],"limits_note":"","binding":"none","binding_note":"No constraint kind fits: the free capacity is a 14-day window, and 1 TiB/month is reachable inside it at the shaping a Tokyo KVM guest gets. The window, not a quota, is what ends the free use.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"[translated] 'If you select credit-card payment when you apply, you can try every plan free for two weeks.' The card is the condition of the trial, not a deposit: the manual states a three-month minimum contract for the paid service.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"The paid service carries a three-month minimum contract per the vendor manual, so a trial that is not cancelled converts into a contract.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"The two-week card trial is a vendor sentence with a date. The traffic allowance is not on the page read, so volume stays null. A probe of the trial guest would settle the rate and whether the standard public IPv4 is included.","evidence":[{"url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"[translated] 'If you select credit-card payment when you apply, you can try every plan free for two weeks.'"},{"url":"https://vps.sakura.ad.jp/","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"The plan table prices paid tiers from JPY 792 per month (2 GB, campaign price on the day read); no free-forever tier appears on the page."}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"JPY 0 for 14 days with a card; JPY 792 per month after (2 GB plan, campaign price on 2026-10-23)","notes":"The brief named 'Sakura Internet (free plan)' as a candidate. On the pages read there is no free-forever plan: the offer is a two-week card trial on the VPS line, and the paid plans start at JPY 792 per month. SakuraFrp (natfrp.com) is a different company and is already recorded. Country: Japan, three domestic regions (Ishikari, Osaka, Tokyo). Considered and not read further: ConoHa VPS (a Japanese comparison page states it has no free trial period at all; third-party, unverified).","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"A KVM guest with root: WireGuard is installed in the guest and wg-quick writes the .conf. The vendor issues no configuration. The page also sells a VPC router with WireGuard support, which a Japanese write-up prices at JPY 2619 per month for its smallest tier.","ingress":"tcp+udp","volume_tib_month":null,"volume_stated":"[translated] 'Every plan is free for two weeks.' No traffic allowance is stated on the page read; the free window is 14 days.","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"The guest's own address is the endpoint; Sakura's domestic backbone carries the bytes."}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":792,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"JPY","usd":5.0497,"fx_date":"2026-10-24","parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}