CreateOS Sandbox

createos.sh · Compute · 1 record · JSON

CreateOS Sandbox (NodeOps) Compute

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createos.sh/products/sandbox · container and VM sandbox · compute/createos · JSON · compare

Free tier	500 free credits to start; a sandbox auto-pauses after 5 minutes idle with memory and disk preserved and compute billing stopped unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	request-rate 500 free credits at signup source retention-clamped auto-pause after 5 minutes idle; memory and disk are snapshotted rather than lost source not stated
Binding	request-rate
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence rung	documented the sandbox page was read on 2026-10-22. The 500-credit grant is one-time; the 5-minute auto-pause is the wall-clock axis and it preserves state, which is the unusual half
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[1].value` limit:retention-clamped 5.0 minutes

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	createos.sh/products/sandbox	not published
2026-10-22	createos.sh/products/sandbox	'500 free credits to start.' and 'Idle 5 min → paused, disk + memory preserved' with 'A paused sandbox is a Firecracker snapshot on disk: guest memory and device state are frozen, and compute billing stops', quoted

More fields (14)

{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 35.61,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 85.46,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 36.56,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": "first-party: PAUSED sandboxes stop vCPU billing but KEEP billing RAM at $0.01159025/GB-h",
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": null,
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": 300,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "auto-pause at 5 minutes idle; the snapshot restores guest memory and device state, so the clock costs wall time but not work"
 },
 "persistent_storage": {
  "included_gib": null,
  "price_gib_month": "not published on this page",
  "durability": "Firecracker snapshot on disk",
  "survives_stop": true,
  "survives_destroy": false,
  "max_retention": "until deleted"
 },
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0
}

Unknown or withheld values (16)

$.chaining not-stated
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.price_note process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-stated
$.tooling not-stated