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Lizard Compute
trialcardcardDvolume-quota
| Free tier | 'Pro costs $19 a month and includes $19 in monthly credits for the whole platform.' The only free path is a trial: 'Pro starts with a 7-day trial and $5 in trial credits. You need a card to start it, but we charge nothing during the 7 days.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; A plan credit equal to the plan fee, and a card-gated trial. There is no grant. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 'Sandboxes come in three sizes ... Small (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) at $0.0162/hour, Medium (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) at $0.0324/hour, and Large (8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) at $0.0648/hour.' During the trial the sandbox limit is 5. |
| Retention | A successful pause stops compute charges; Persistent Volumes storage continues to be billed while data is kept. |
| Egress | Sandbox egress has no separate per-GB charge, with '2 TB per account over a rolling 30 days' included; apps and databases pay the per-GB rate. free_allowance: 2 TB over a rolling 30 days for sandboxes |
| Identity | card 'You need a card to start it, but we charge nothing during the 7 days.' No hold amount is stated. The card is charged USD 19 when the trial ends unless cancelled. |
| Limits |
At USD 0.0324 an hour a Medium sandbox costs USD 23.65 for a month, which is more than the USD 19 credit, so the plan cannot hold a Medium up for 730 hours either. |
| Binding | volume-quota The USD 19 credit against USD 23.65 a month for the 4 vCPU size is what fails; the 2 vCPU size at USD 11.83 fits with USD 7 to spare. |
| Interface | rest, cli REST API and CLI; sandbox create takes a millisecond lifetime |
| Tooling | lizard CLI, SDK, REST; templates include codex, claude, opencode, pi, desktop |
| Composes with | 2 TB of included egress per account makes it the natural host for a crawler that serves what it collects |
| Reliability | When the credit is spent, running apps, databases and Sandboxes pause and no new ones can be created; the data is kept but the service stops. |
| Notes | At USD 0.0324 an hour the Medium sandbox is USD 23.65 a month, so the USD 19 credit is 586 hours; the Small at USD 0.0162 is USD 11.83 a month and 1,173 hours, so USD 19 covers a full month with about USD 7 spare. The 7-day trial is card-gated, which makes this a paid row for a user. |
| Evidence rung | documented Plan, credit, sandbox sizes, rates, the trial terms and the egress allowance are on the pricing page read today. |
| Checked | 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24 |
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Evidence (7)
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/pricing | Small (2 vCPU, 4 GB) USD 0.0162/h, Medium (4/8) USD 0.0324/h, Large (8/16) USD 0.0648/h, billed per second including idle |
| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/docs/platform/limits/ | sizes carry a /workspace disk of 5, 20 and 50 GB; egress included to 2 TB per account per rolling 30 days |
| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/docs/platform/limits/ | raw API default lifetime timeoutMs 0 (no expiration); SDK and CLI default 5 minutes; a command does not reset the deadline |
| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/pricing | 7-day trial with USD 5 in trial credits and a card required; Pro USD 19 a month with USD 19 included |
| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/pricing | 'Pro starts with a 7-day trial and $5 in trial credits. You need a card to start it, but we charge nothing during the 7 days, and you can cancel before the trial ends', quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | lizard.build/pricing | sandbox sizes and rates, quoted: Small 2 vCPU / 4 GB at $0.0162 an hour, Medium 4 / 8 at $0.0324, Large 8 / 16 at $0.0648, billed per second including idle time |
| 2026-10-24 | lizard.build/pricing | quoted: 'Pro costs $19 a month and includes $19 in monthly credits'; 'Pro starts with a 7-day trial and $5 in trial credits. You need a card to start it, but we charge nothing during the 7 days'; 'Small (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) at $0.0162/hour, Medium (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) at $0.0324/hour, and Large (8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) at $0.0648/hour'; 'the included allowance is 2 TB per account over a rolling 30 days'. |
More fields (21)
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"vcpu": 4,
"ram_gib": 8,
"disk_gib": null,
"gpu_class": null,
"gpu_count": null
},
"billing_model": "per-second, monthly plan credit",
"granularity": {
"min_billed_s": 1,
"rounding_s": 1
},
"session_cap": {
"wall_clock_min": null,
"idle_reap_s": null,
"restart_required": false,
"note": "billed 'including idle time'; a pause stops compute charges"
},
"keep_rate": {
"value": 0.0,
"basis": "a pause stops compute charges",
"source": "https://lizard.build/pricing"
},
"persistent_storage": {
"included_gib": 5,
"price_gib_month": "persistent volumes billed separately",
"durability": "paused sandbox keeps data",
"survives_stop": true,
"survives_destroy": null,
"max_retention": "unpublished"
},
"network_out": {
"allow_outbound": true,
"allow_inbound_listen": true,
"ports": "all",
"static_ip": null,
"ipv6": null,
"per_session_bytes": null
},
"free_tier_kind": "plan-credit",
"m10h_usd": 9.72,
"m24h_usd": 23.65,
"price_arithmetic": "0.0324/h x 730 = 23.65; 19 / 0.0324 = 586 h; small 0.0162 x 730 = 11.83",
"price_note": "Small shape at the live USD 0.0162 per hour. Both seed figures were stale.",
"price_basis": "10 h/day x 30 = 300 h; 24/7 x 30 = 730 h",
"burst_x": 1.0,
"wave2": {
"verdict_change": "qualifies-with-caveat -> trial-only on 2026-10-22 (plan credit is a fee, not a free tier)"
},
"shape_small": {
"vcpu": 2,
"ram_gib": 4
},
"term": "monthly",
"credit_usd": 19,
"credit_months_at_shape": 0.8,
"credit_hours_at_shape": 586,
"credit_expiry": "monthly; the plan fee and the credit are the same money"
}Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Lizard's USD 19 plan is a fee, not a free tier
- 2026-10-22 Compute seed claims superseded on first read