shellbox

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shellbox Compute

caveatanonymousno cardDvolume-quota

shellbox.dev/ · container and VM sandbox · compute/shellbox · JSON · compare

Free tier	No free tier; a prepaid balance with a USD 10 minimum top-up. First SSH creates the account from the key fingerprint. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	Parked (stopped) boxes keep their disk and a memory snapshot at USD 0.50/month per x1 slot; boxes auto-stop when the balance drops below USD 5 and are deleted at USD 0. Unused funds are refundable within 3 months.
Egress	Not metered on the page read: no traffic allowance and no per-GB price is stated; the box gets a public IPv6 address and a managed HTTPS endpoint. free_allowance: not stated
Identity	anonymous No card, no email, no signup form: 'your SSH key fingerprint is your account'. Payment is a prepaid Paddle balance with a USD 10 minimum top-up, refundable within 3 months; no card is stored by Shellbox. No hold.
Limits	volume-quota prepaid balance only; boxes auto-stop below USD 5 and are deleted at USD 0 source not stated
Binding	volume-quota The price is the wall, not a quota: USD 0.02/hour per x1 slot is USD 14.60 a month, and there is no smaller slot than x1.
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	Stopped boxes resume from a memory snapshot in about 3 seconds; auto-stop and deletion are triggered by the prepaid balance, not by time.
Notes	Arithmetic at 24/7: USD 0.02/hour x 730 = USD 14.60 for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 50 GB SSD. 10 h/day at 22 days = 220 h = USD 4.40, which is inside the budget only if the box is allowed to sleep. The default mode pauses 120 seconds after the last SSH session disconnects, so a 24/7 workload must be put in keepalive mode explicitly. Runs on bare metal in Hetzner Finland, one region. Not established: the x2 to x8 per-slot prices, whether an IPv4 address exists at all, and the egress terms.
Evidence rung	documented Price, slot shape, parked rate, keepalive mode, the IPv6/UDP statement and the key-fingerprint signup are all quoted from the single product page read today. The per-slot price table rendered without its rows, so only the x1 price (USD 0.02/hour) is known; the x2-x8 prices are unverified.
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD4.4 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD14.6 / month

Evidence (6)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	shellbox.dev/	not published
2026-10-22	shellbox.dev/	'Pay per minute for what you actually use. No subscription, no login - your SSH key fingerprint is your account.' with '$0.02/hr per x1 slot, billed per minute', '$0.50/mo per x1 slot when stopped' and 'ssh shellbox.dev wakeup <name>' for auto-start on HTTP, quoted
2026-10-24	shellbox.dev/	quoted: 'x1 base 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 50 GB SSD. Scale to x8.' and '$0.02/hr per x1 slot, billed per minute.' and 'parked $0.50/mo per x1 slot when stopped.'
2026-10-24	shellbox.dev/	quoted: 'Boxes are real microVMs — each with its own kernel and disk. Every new box gets direct public IPv6 for ssh / mosh / raw TCP-UDP.'
2026-10-24	shellbox.dev/	quoted: 'First time you SSH, an account is created from your key fingerprint. No email, no password, no dashboard.' and 'Payments via Paddle (merchant of record). No card stored by Shellbox. Pre-paid balance, refundable within 3 months.'
2026-10-24	shellbox.dev/	quoted: 'keepalive ... Stay running regardless of connections. For Gitea, n8n, bots, daemons — anything you want up 24/7.' and 'Boxes auto-stop when balance drops below $5 and are deleted at $0.'

More fields (20)

{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 6.0,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 14.4,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": 6.0,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "per-minute",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram_gib": 4,
  "disk_gib": 50,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": 120,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "in the default stop mode the box pauses 120 seconds after the last SSH session disconnects; keepalive mode removes that and runs 24/7"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "any port over the box's public IPv6, raw TCP and UDP; managed HTTPS endpoint on a shellbox.dev subdomain; no IPv4 address was stated",
  "static_ip": true,
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 60,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0,
 "ps": {
  "gib": 50,
  "price": "$0.50 a month per slot while stopped",
  "durability": "SSD survives a stop",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "while the slot exists"
 },
 "net": {
  "out": true,
  "in": true,
  "ports": "a public URL and an email endpoint on creation, with auto-start on HTTP",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": null,
  "allowance": null
 },
 "term": "prepaid balance, no commitment",
 "m10h_usd": 4.4,
 "m24h_usd": 14.6,
 "price_arithmetic": "0.02/hour x 730 h = USD 14.60 at 24/7 for one x1 slot (2 vCPU / 4 GB / 50 GB). 8 h/day over 22 days = 176 h = USD 3.52; 10 h/day = 300 h = USD 6.00. Parked: USD 0.50/month."
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.chaining not-stated
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.keep_rate_basis process
$.extras.price_note process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated