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alwaysdata Compute
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| Free tier | 0 EUR a month for life: 1 GB of SSD, 256 MB of RAM, a quarter of a CPU, 3 days of backups unit GB; metered on stored-bytes; the vendor states 1 GB, a decimal unit; kept as stated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | not applicable |
| Retention | a free profile must connect to the administration interface every 120 days while it is less than a year old; otherwise the profile is suspended (120 days) |
| Egress | not published as a volume; the restricted-mode page states that without a card, HTTP requests are filtered more strictly and outbound SMTP may be limited in quantity and time |
| Identity | email email signup, no card required to hold the free plan. A card is what lifts restricted mode: 'fill-in your credit card details in your means of payment area (even if you have a free account)'. No hold is stated because no payment is taken on the free plan; the restriction is throttling, not a charge. |
| Limits |
the free plan's own terms forbid 24/7 services, which makes it a relay endpoint rather than a node |
| Binding | write-gated the free plan's footnote forbids running services, so a daemon or a listener is out of scope regardless of the 256 MB of RAM. |
| Interface | ssh SSH to the account user, plus a web panel and an API |
| Tooling | SSH, the alwaysdata admin panel and API, scheduled tasks |
| Composes with | a French shared host with a 1 GB disk and a 120-day login clock |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Worth recording because it looks like the answer and is not: 1 GB and SSH for 0 EUR, ruled out by one sentence in the footnote. It remains usable as a place to serve a static site or run a cron-driven script, if the script is not a service. |
| Evidence rung | documented the suspension clock and the restricted-mode rules from its help pages. All read today. |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
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Evidence (7)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | www.alwaysdata.com/en/pricing/ | free plan at EUR 0 with 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM and 1/4 CPU, available for life |
| 2026-10-06 | www.alwaysdata.com/en/pricing/ | a free profile is suspended after a long period without connecting to the administration interface |
| 2026-10-22 | www.alwaysdata.com/en/pricing/ | read live: 1 GB SSD, 256 MB RAM, 1/4 CPU free for life on the personal plan |
| 2026-10-24 | help.alwaysdata.com/en/docs/admin-billing/billing/public-clo | quoted: 'The Free plan cannot be used for profit purposes. The creation of websites on this plan is limited to the alwaysdata.net account's address and it cannot be used to run services.' |
| 2026-10-24 | help.alwaysdata.com/en/docs/admin-billing/billing/public-clo | quoted table: 'Disk space 1 GB', 'RAM 256 MB', 'CPU 1/4', 'Annual payment (VAT excluded) Free' |
| 2026-10-24 | help.alwaysdata.com/en/docs/admin-billing/profile/restricted | quoted: 'fill-in your credit card details in your means of payment area (even if you have a free account)' and 'Adding a bank account (even with direct debit) does not lift the restriction.' |
| 2026-10-24 | help.alwaysdata.com/en/docs/admin-billing/profile/suspension | quoted: 'a profile created in less than a year must connect every 120 days' |
More fields (13)
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"basis": "a free profile costs nothing",
"source": "https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/pricing/"
},
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"ports": "no service may listen; sites are served through the shared front end",
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},
"free_tier_kind": "always-free",
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],
"shape_note": "256 MB of RAM is 0.25 GiB; a quarter of a CPU as the vendor states it; 1 GB decimal disk kept as stated",
"term": "indefinite with a login every 120 days in the first year",
"m10h_usd": 0.0,
"m24h_usd": 0.0,
"price_arithmetic": "0 EUR a month, VAT excluded, annual or monthly payment both Free"
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