Binder

mybinder.readthedocs.io · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

Binder (mybinder.org) Computefails: quotaanonymousno cardDvolume-quota
binder (mybinder.org) Storagedeademail?card?R

Binder (mybinder.org) Compute

fails: quotaanonymousno cardDvolume-quota

mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html · notebook runtime · compute/mybinder · JSON · compare

Free tier	free and unauthenticated: at least 1 GB RAM with a 2 GB maximum, up to 6 hours of session time or 1 CPU-hour, whichever comes first; no persistent storage of any sort unit hours; metered on wall-clock; The governing limit is one CPU-hour, so six hours of session is only available to an idle kernel.
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object
Retention	none: 'We do not offer persistent storage of any sort'
Egress	outgoing bandwidth limited to about 1 mbit per session free_allowance: about 1 mbit/s per session
Identity	anonymous no account and no card: a Binder link runs straight from a public repository. The service logs IP addresses for 30 days for abuse detection.
Limits	volume-quota 1 CPU-hour per session, or 6 hours of wall clock source per-ip-shaping about 1 mbit/s of outgoing bandwidth per session source retention-clamped 0 days: no persistent storage at all source volume-quota 100 simultaneous user sessions per repository source
Binding	volume-quota one CPU-hour is reached in an hour of real work, and there is no disk to keep the result on
Interface	git, rest a Git repository is built into a Docker image and served as a JupyterHub session
Tooling	any repo with a requirements.txt or environment.yml; the launch URL is the interface
Composes with	a reproducible demo environment for a repo, not a place to compute: one CPU-hour and no disk
Reliability	the project states it has no dedicated funding and runs on donated cloud, and it caps launches from most cloud providers
Notes	The only anonymous provider, and the only one with a published CPU-hour cap that small. RAM is the project's own 'GB'; whether that is GB is not stated.
Evidence rung	documented memory, session length, bandwidth and the absence of storage are all quoted from the project's user guidelines today.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 6.0 hours

Evidence (5)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	quoted, emphasis markers in the original: 'users are guaranteed at least 1GB of RAM, with a maximum of 2GB'
2026-10-24	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	quoted: 'Binder aims to provide up to six hours of session time per user session, or up to one cpu-hour for more computationally intensive sessions.'
2026-10-24	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	quoted: 'We do not offer persistent storage of any sort, to protect us from becoming a host for malware.'
2026-10-24	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	quoted, with the code span preserved: 'We limit outgoing bandwidth per-session ( `~1mbit`) to protect against being used as a DDoS vector.'
2026-10-24	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	quoted, bold markers in the original: 'The maximum number of simultaneous users for a given repo is 100.'

More fields (12)

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  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": 2,
  "disk_gib": 0,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "1 GB guaranteed, 2 GB maximum; CPU is bounded in cpu-hours rather than cores"
 },
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "none",
 "m10h_usd": 0.0,
 "m24h_usd": 0.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 0.00: donated infrastructure, no paid tier",
 "free_tier_kind": "free-forever-with-quota",
 "unattended": false,
 "unattended_mechanism": "none: the session is bound to the browser and to the one-cpu-hour budget",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": false,
  "ports": "outbound only",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": false,
  "per_session_bytes": "about 1 mbit/s"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": 360,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": true,
  "note": "6 h or 1 CPU-hour, whichever comes first; no persistence"
 },
 "units": "RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed."
}

binder (mybinder.org) Storage

deademail?card?R

mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html · rejected-provider · storage/binder · JSON · compare

Free tier	Explicitly no persistence of any kind, and egress is throttled to ~1 mbit per session to stop it being used as a DDoS vector. Sessions die after 10 min idle / 6 h max, 1-2 GB RAM. A pure dea unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Explicitly no persistence of any kind, and egress is throttled to ~1 mbit per session to stop it being used as a DDoS vector. Sessions die after 10 min idle / 6 h max, 1-2 GB RAM. A pure dea
Notes	Explicitly no persistence of any kind, and egress is throttled to ~1 mbit per session to stop it being used as a DDoS vector. Sessions die after 10 min idle / 6 h max, 1-2 GB RAM. A pure dea
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about/user-guidelines.html	Explicitly no persistence of any kind, and egress is throttled to ~1 mbit per session to stop it being used as a DDoS vector. Sessions die after 10 min idle / 6 h max, 1-2 GB RAM. A pure dea

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "Explicitly no persistence of any kind, and egress is throttled to ~1 mbit per session to stop it being used as a DDoS vector. Sessions die after 10 min idle / 6 h max, 1-2 GB RAM. A pure dea",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

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$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
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$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
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$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded