Val Town

val.town · Compute, Storage · 3 records · JSON

Val Town Computecaveatemailno cardDretention-clamped
Val Town Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R
val town — blob storage Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

Val Town Compute

caveatemailno cardDretention-clamped

www.val.town/limits · serverless runtime · compute/val-town · JSON · compare

Free tier	A free plan whose crons run every 15 minutes at minimum and whose workers are killed after 10 seconds idle, with a hard 6-hour ceiling on any worker: quoted 'Worker idle timeout \| 10 sec' and 'Worker runtime \| 6 hrs Absolute ceiling on a single worker's lifetime, regardless of plan'. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; perpetual
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	The 10-second idle timeout ends any process that is not answering requests, so the host is a scheduler and not a machine: what survives is the cron every 15 minutes, not a daemon.
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	retention-clamped The 10-second idle timeout ends any process that is not answering requests, so the host is a scheduler and not a machine: what survives is the cron every 15 minutes, not a daemon. source The 10-second idle timeout ends any process that is not answering requests, so the host is a scheduler and not a machine: what survives is the cron every 15 minutes, not a daemon.
Binding	retention-clamped The 10-second idle timeout ends any process that is not answering requests, so the host is a scheduler and not a machine: what survives is the cron every 15 minutes, not a daemon.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	A 15-minute cron with 100,000 runs a day for nothing is the cheapest scheduler in this class, and 'Email yourself' makes it a free alerting path for a box that is expected to die
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Val Town has no dossier record at all, which is the gap this row fills. The reaper is unusual and worth stating plainly: a worker is not a process, it lives 10 seconds past its last request and cannot exceed 6 hours even on a paid plan, so nothing daemon-shaped runs here. The interesting number is 100,000 runs a day at a 15-minute floor, which is a ceiling on scheduled work rather than on capacity. The free plan is now public-vals-only for new vals, per the operator's 2026-05-26 changelog, which matters for anything holding a secret.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:retention-clamped 15.0 minutes

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.val.town/limits	'Worker idle timeout \| 10 sec How long a worker waits for more requests before shutting down' and 'Worker runtime \| 6 hrs Absolute ceiling on a single worker's lifetime, regardless of plan' and 'Worker memory \| 4 GiB', quoted
2026-10-22	www.val.town/limits	'Minimum cron interval \| 15 min' on Free, 'Execution timeout \| 1 min' on Free, 'API requests per minute \| 1,000' on Free, 'Crons per val \| 10', quoted
2026-10-22	www.val.town/pricing	the Free column: '$0', '15 min cron intervals', '1 min wall clock time / run', 'Unlimited public vals', '100,000 runs / day', 'Email yourself', quoted

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "paas-never-sleep",
  "free_tier_kind": "perpetual",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": 4,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (8)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.tooling not-stated

Val Town Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

val.town · serverless · storage/val-town · JSON · compare

Free tier	Free plan blob storage: '10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro'. Pro is the ceiling, so there is no free path to bulk. unit none; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Vals serve HTTP by default with no transfer meter — the serving side is genuinely free.
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	s3, rest rest
Tooling	`std/blob` TypeScript API (scoped blobs on S3, global blobs on Cloudflare R2); vals themselves are HTTP endpoints at `<val>.web.val.run`.
Composes with	Val creation is capped at 2,500 vals on Free with a 10 MB account-wide blob pool — the pool is per account, not per val, so it does not multiply.
Reliability	The R2/S3 backing is real and fast; the quota is the blocker, not the tech.
Notes	Free plan blob storage: '10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro'. Pro is the ceiling, so there is no free path to bulk.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.val.town/std/blob/	'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro' (page last updated September 10, 2026)
2026-10-21	www.val.town/limits	Free: 2,500 vals, 1 min execution timeout, 100,000 runs/day

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "paid",
  "why": "Free plan blob storage: '10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro'. Pro is the ceiling, so there is no free path to bulk.",
  "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

val town — blob storage Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

docs.val.town/std/blob/ · rejected-provider · storage/val-town-blob-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni 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	Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni
Notes	Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.val.town/std/blob/	Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni
2026-10-21	www.val.town/pricing	cited as the basis of the rejection: Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "Blob storage counts against total Val Town storage, which is tiny: 'Blob-stored data counts towards your total Val Town storage – 10mb on the free plan and 1gb on pro.' Three orders of magni",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded