- Free allowance
- No free tier: $0.40 an hour per Cloud PC on consumption, plus an optional $5 a month per Cloud PC to keep it instantly available
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rate$0.40 an hour per Cloud PC on consumption
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | no free tier: $0.40 an hour per Cloud PC on consumption, plus an optional $5 a month per Cloud PC to keep it instantly available unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) $0.40 an hour per Cloud PC on consumption source
- retention-clamped $5 a month per Cloud PC buys instant availability; without it a Cloud PC is provisioned on demand source
- per-object-cap usage is the total time spent running, billed per Cloud PC source
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states both the consumption rate and the always-available add-on. There is no free tier, so the verdict moves to paid-only, and the add-on is the state answer: $5 a month buys availability rather than compute |
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