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"rounding",
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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"href": "/devboxes/",
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"operator": "Upstash, Inc.",
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"text": "1,000"
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"label": "Pay as you go"
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"detail": "No limit on starting sandboxes is published.",
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"text": "?"
}
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{
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"href": "/ci-runners/",
"label": "CI runners",
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
"label": "Devboxes",
"slug": "devboxes"
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"operator": "Azin Tech Operating Company B.V.",
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"status_label": "Active",
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"summary": "Persistent KVM Linux machines for agents and developers, driven by SDK, CLI or SSH, that fork and sleep with memory kept and bill per second on CPU time used, memory in use and disk written; plus a documented setup that runs GitHub-triggered CI on machines restored from a snapshot of the last green main run."
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"reason": "Machine quota, not a running limit, and boxd's pages disagree: 50 per organization (docs, FAQ; 2 without a payment method) vs 100 (pricing page); hibernated and stopped machines count",
"text": "?"
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"label": "Prepaid credit"
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"detail": "No limit on starting sandboxes is published.",
"over": "",
"text": "?"
}
},
"vt": true
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{
"basis": "Active CPU",
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{
"detail": "Only CPU in use is billed, so idle time costs less; the light-use column shows how much.",
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"rounding",
"minimum"
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"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
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"logo": "/logos/fly-sprites.png",
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"src": 3,
"terms": {
"at_once": {
"reason": "Not published for pay-as-you-go; Hero allows 100 running and 100 warm Sprites, cold Sprites unlimited",
"text": "?"
},
"pay": {
"detail": "Billed for what you use, with no plan fee.",
"key": "payg",
"label": "Pay as you go"
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{
"basis": "Active CPU",
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{
"detail": "Only CPU in use is billed, so idle time costs less; the light-use column shows how much.",
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"cost": "≥ $0.2",
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"light_lower": true,
"lower_bound": true,
"notes": [
"minimum"
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"bird": "",
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{
"href": "/agent-sandboxes/",
"label": "Agent sandboxes",
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{
"href": "/devboxes/",
"label": "Devboxes",
"slug": "devboxes"
}
],
"href": "/providers/tensorlake/",
"logo": "/logos/tensorlake.svg",
"logo_dark": false,
"name": "Tensorlake",
"operator": "Tensorlake Inc.",
"plate": 42,
"slug": "tensorlake",
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"status_label": "Active",
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"text": "100"
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"pay": {
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"key": "prepaid",
"label": "Prepaid credit"
},
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"detail": "No limit on starting sandboxes is published.",
"over": "",
"text": "?"
}
},
"vt": true
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