AWS EC2 (reference VMs)

aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/Cloud VMcompute/aws-ec2JSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
Verdict: triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
Cost: free tierpaid plans from USD 14.73/month
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping100 GB a month of free data transfer out, aggregated across all AWS services and regions
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-07checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-07

Free tier	USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate billed per second with a 60-second minimum; no long-term commitment source per-ip-shaping (binding) 100 GB a month of free data transfer out, aggregated across all AWS services and regions source per-object-cap a public IPv4 address is charged whether the instance is in use or idle source not stated
Binding	per-ip-shaping the 6-month account window ends the offer
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	unknown
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	reported the on-demand pricing page was read on 2026-10-22.
Parsed numbers	price USD 14.73 / month price USD 36.93 / month per-ip-shaping 100 GB / month

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/	not published
2026-10-22	aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/	'On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour or second (minimum of 60 seconds) with no long-term commitments' and 'AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer out to the internet free each month, aggregated across all AWS Services and Regions' and 'All In-use and Idle Elastic IP addresses are charged', quoted

More fields 14

{
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "flat-pool",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "no session cap; an instance runs until it is stopped or terminated"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "security groups",
  "static_ip": "charged whether in use or idle",
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": "100 GB a month free egress, then metered"
 },
 "price_note": "a VPS bills by the month with an hourly rate capped at the monthly figure, so the two columns answer two questions: destroying the box between runs versus keeping it up.",
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
 "m10h_usd": 14.73,
 "m24h_usd": 36.93,
 "price_basis": "10 h/day column = 300 h at the hourly rate, which is what a server destroyed between runs costs; 24/7 column = the monthly cap, because a VPS kept up all month stops at the cap.",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 60,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0
}

Unknown values 10

$.chaining a source was read and is silent on this field
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published
$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field
$.interface the access interface was not established
$.limits_note a source was read and is silent on this field
$.per_object_cap.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field