Observable

observablehq.com · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

Observable Computefails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota
Observable Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

Observable Compute

fails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota

observablehq.com/pricing · notebook runtime · compute/observable-free · JSON · compare

Free tier	free notebooks with 'Few tokens / day' of agent and 1 GB a month of file attachments; the Compute row is blank on Free and 50 minutes a month on Pro at USD 22 a month unit none; metered on none; Compute is a paid-plan row. The Free cell is empty, so the free compute allowance is zero.
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email a free account; no card stated for Free
Limits	volume-quota 0 minutes of compute on Free; 50 minutes a month on Pro source
Binding	volume-quota the free allowance is zero minutes, so the first job fails immediately
Interface	rest, graphql JavaScript notebooks in the browser with database connectors
Tooling	the Observable notebook; no shell
Composes with	a JavaScript notebook and dashboard tool with no free compute
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Observable was once a free notebook compute host. The current plan table gives Free no compute at all. Whether the blank cell means zero or 'not applicable' is not stated in words; asking support would settle it.
Evidence rung	documented the blank Compute cell and the Pro figure are read from the plan table today. A blank cell is an absence, so the zero is an inference from the row structure.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 0.0 minutes

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	observablehq.com/pricing	quoted: '\| Compute \| \| \| 50 min. / mo. \| \| 50 min. / editor / mo. \| Custom \|' - the Free column is empty, Pro is 50 minutes
2026-10-24	observablehq.com/pricing	quoted: '\| File attachments \| \| 1 GB / mo. \| 1 GB / mo. \|' on the Free column
2026-10-24	observablehq.com/pricing	quoted: 'Pro$22per monthor $25 billed monthly'

More fields (12)

{
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": null,
  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "free",
 "term": "none",
 "m10h_usd": null,
 "m24h_usd": null,
 "price_arithmetic": "USD 0.00 on Free for zero compute; 50 minutes a month costs USD 22 a month on Pro",
 "free_tier_kind": "free-forever-with-feature-gate",
 "unattended": false,
 "unattended_mechanism": "none: no compute allowance on Free",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": false,
  "allow_inbound_listen": false,
  "ports": "unstated",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": false,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "not published"
 },
 "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."
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.reliability_note none-observed

Observable Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

observablehq.com · paas · storage/observable · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free plan: 'File attachments 1 GB / mo.' unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not metered, but 1 GB/mo of attachments caps the whole play. free_allowance: 1 GB per month
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	rest rest
Tooling	Observable notebooks/FileAttachment API; attachments are content-addressed and fetchable from notebook pages.
Composes with	1 GB/mo per account, no rollover. Not viable.
Reliability	Attachments persist (unlike a notebook disk) but the monthly 1 GB ceiling makes this a rounding error.
Notes	Free plan: 'File attachments 1 GB / mo.'
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	observablehq.com/pricing	comparison table: 'File attachments \| 1 GB / mo.' on both Free and Pro (read via firecrawl after a 429 from the default provider)

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Free plan: 'File attachments 1 GB / mo.'",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted