BytePlus AI Cloud

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BytePlus AI Cloud Compute

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www.byteplus.com/en/solutions/ai-cloud-native-sandbox · container and VM sandbox · compute/byteplus-ai-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	Serverless microVM sandboxes that the vendor says start in under 150 ms, scale to tens of thousands created concurrently and to millions of vCPUs, support stateful long-running sandboxes, ship preconfigured templates, and bill at millisecond granularity with no charge while nothing is executing. Templates, large-scale image distribution, arbitrary specifications and MCP, API and SDK access are listed. No free tier is published. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the sandbox mechanics (sub-150 ms starts, millisecond billing with no charge while idle, MCP/API/SDK access), a third-party rate of USD 0.0351 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.0081 per GiB-hour, and a BytePlus billing page that returned only its navigation shell. Whether a personal account can create a sandbox at all was not established.
Limits	write-gated The rate card and the signup gate are both behind an account: the public documentation renders as a script shell, so the only published numbers are third-party, and whether a personal account can create a sandbox at all was not established. source The rate card and the signup gate are both behind an account: the public documentation renders as a script shell, so the only published numbers are third-party, and whether a personal account can create a sandbox at all was not established.
Binding	write-gated The rate card and the signup gate are both behind an account: the public documentation renders as a script shell, so the only published numbers are third-party, and whether a personal account can create a sandbox at all was not established.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	A microVM that bills only while executing is the right shape for evaluation fan-out, where a thousand short sandboxes each live a few seconds; it is the wrong shape for a service that must stay up, because the published selling point is that idle costs nothing precisely by not being a persistent host.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as reported because the vendor page establishes the product and its mechanics but not a price, and the documentation is a client-rendered shell that the broker could not read past. Routes tried: the product solution page (read, product facts only), docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/faas/Billing_overview (navigation shell, no table), docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/faas/Overview_of_cloud_sandbox (same shell), and a broad search that returned only third-party comparison tables. What would settle it: an account, which would expose the console rate card. Identity is left null rather than guessed: BytePlus sells to enterprises, and whether a personal account can top up without a company was not established. This is the one provider where the door is more likely to be the finding than the price.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-05

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.byteplus.com/en/solutions/ai-cloud-native-sandbox	'sandboxes can start within 150ms and can be created concurrently at a scale of tens of thousands'; 'up to millions of vCPUs'; 'millisecond-level billing with no charges when not executing'; each sandbox is a microVM; MCP, API and SDK access
2026-10-22	boxyard.dev/providers/byteplus-cloud-sandbox	a third-party comparison lists USD 0.0351 per vCPU-hour and USD 0.0081 per GiB-hour with no free tier, which is a claim about a third party and not a reading of BytePlus's own rate card
2026-10-22	docs.byteplus.com/en/docs/faas/Billing_overview	the billing overview page returns only its navigation shell with no rate table, so the vendor's own numbers could not be read

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.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