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Phala Cloud Compute

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phala.com/pricing · cloud VM · compute/phala-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	Confidential VMs from USD 0.06 per hour and GPU TEE capacity from USD 4.40 per hour, billed per minute, with storage at USD 0.000139 per GB per hour charged while the CVM exists whether it runs or not. unit none; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	card card or a balance top-up: signup is 'with GitHub, Google or email', then the first step is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so a payment instrument is required before any CVM exists and a prepaid balance is the stated alternative to a card. No authorisation or hold amount is stated, and whether debit is accepted is not stated: unknown.
Limits	write-gated The documentation's first step after signup is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so no CVM exists without a payment instrument. source The documentation's first step after signup is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so no CVM exists without a payment instrument.
Binding	write-gated The documentation's first step after signup is 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying', so no CVM exists without a payment instrument.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Phala is the cheapest attested-TEE lane found among DePIN records, but it is a prepaid invoice rather than a credit, so it does not chain with a zero-budget start.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A promotional credit may exist behind the signup login and was not visible; neither the pricing page nor the quick start shows one. Hourly rates are list prices, not measured.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	phala.com/pricing	CVM from USD 0.06/hour, GPU TEE from USD 4.40/hour, disk USD 0.000139/GB/hour, storage billed while stopped
2026-10-22	docs.phala.network/phala-cloud/getting-started	signup with GitHub, Google or email, then 'add a card or top up your Balance to start deploying'

More fields (1)

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  }
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}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.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