Gladiolus

vm.gl · Compute · 1 record · JSON

Gladiolus (vm.gl) Compute

caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated

vm.gl/ · cloud VM · compute/gladiolus-vm-gl · JSON · compare

Free tier	Verbatim: 'Virtual machines for people building things that deserve to exist. Offered freely, without conditions or calendars.' and 'Linux VMs - Full root access. Run containers, host services, build what you need.' The earlier description added 'No invoices... Actually free. We don't want your credit card', 'No expiration' and 'Human review - We read every request'; those exact sentences were not reproduced by the read on 2026-10-22. unit none; metered on wall-clock; perpetual-free
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	no expiration is stated on the page
Egress	not stated
Identity	email a request read by a human; no card is asked for, and the page states no conditions
Limits	write-gated a human reads every request, so the gate is a decision by one person and not a quota; the number of VMs is not published source a human reads every request, so the gate is a decision by one person and not a quota; the number of VMs is not published
Binding	write-gated a human reads every request, so the gate is a decision by one person and not a quota; the number of VMs is not published
Interface	ssh full root access to a Linux VM; the access route is not otherwise stated
Tooling	a Linux VM with root access; no client is named on the page
Composes with	a machine with root access and no invoice composes with the free always-on lane as a second address, and with a CI runner as the deploy target
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The shape, the egress term and the number of machines are not published, so the record carries no numbers rather than estimates. A human reviews each request, which makes the gate a judgement and therefore unpredictable in a way a quota is not.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	vm.gl/	'Offered freely, without conditions or calendars' and 'Linux VMs - Full root access. Run containers, host services, build what you need.', quoted from the page read on 2026-10-22

More fields (1)

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  "class": "perpetual-vps"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed