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Scanned 23 Jul 2026 · Schema v5 · features v17

From: $0.013/h
Pay-as-you-go, usage-metered — billed per minute of VM runtime, same price in all regions. Suspend to stop compute billing.
Free tier: No
Card required.
Isolation: Virtual machine
hypervisor, or nothing at all
Regions: 5
New York (GPU may run in Toronto) · San Francisco (no GPU) · London · Amsterdam · Singapore
Capabilities: 13 / 54
6 partial · 34 fail · 7 not assessed
Agent readiness: 10/11 · 6/11
read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Reproducible dev environments (NixOS flakes / Ubuntu+Ansible), coding agents (Claude Code, Codex), autonomous agents (OpenClaw, Hermes), hosting web apps / databases / anything needing a stable address, long running (6 8h coding / multi day research) agent tasks.

Built for

Developers, then technical

· curl | sh install + SSH/CLI-first onboarding
· code/terminal hero (screencast of the CLI)
· vocabulary: VMs, KVM/QEMU, regions, vCPU/RAM, static IPs

01 Pricing Pay-as-you-go, usage-metered — billed per minute of VM runtime, same price in all regions. Suspend to stop compute billing.

Tier	Entrysmall	medium	large	xl	xxl	xxxl	4xl	5xl	6xl	gpu-4000ada-1	gpu-l40s-1	gpu-6000ada-1	gpu-mi300x-1	gpu-h100-1	gpu-h200-1	gpu-mi300x-8	gpu-h100-8	Topgpu-h200-8
Price	$0.013/hr (~$9/mo)	$0.034/hr (~$25/mo)	$0.052/hr (~$38/mo)	$0.104/hr (~$76/mo)	$0.208/hr (~$152/mo)	$0.825/hr (~$602/mo)	$1.980/hr (~$1,445/mo)	$2.970/hr (~$2,168/mo)	$3.714/hr (~$2,711/mo)	$0.836/hr	$1.727/hr	$1.727/hr	$2.189/hr	$3.729/hr	$3.784/hr	$17.512/hr	$26.312/hr	$30.272/hr

Per VM-minute (rates quoted per hour, by VM size)·Card required: Yes·docs.machine0.io

Overages: No overage model — pure metered usage (per-minute per running VM + storage GB-month). Suspend to stop compute billing.

02 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.

Isolation & lifecycle

Isolation primitive

Virtual machinehypervisor, or nothing at all

Persistence

Persistent — VMs remain on until stopped, suspended, or removed; suspend snapshots state and stops compute billing (pay only image storage). Data survives suspend/resume.

Snapshots / forks

Yes — snapshot/suspend/resume; image any VM into a versioned golden master and spin up clones (`machine0 image new`, `machine0 new --image`).

Resources & limits

Storage

Per-VM root disk 25-900 GB (by size). Experimental persistent block volumes (`machine0 disks`, ~$0.1667/GB/mo, survive suspend + VM destruction). Image storage $0.078/GB/mo (billed while suspended).

Limits & quotas

1-60 vCPU, up to 240 GB RAM, up to 8x GPU. 99.99% uptime SLA. Min top-up $5; unused credits refundable. When balance can't cover 1 hour of runtime, running VMs are snapshotted and destroyed (recreate from snapshot after top-up).

GPU

Yes — RX 4000 Ada, L40S, W6000 Ada, MI300X, H100, H200 (single + 8x). From $0.836/hr. Available in us-east, uk, eu, asia (not us-west).

Access

Deploy interface

climcpapidashboard

SDK languages

CLI (curl-installed, cross-platform) + remote MCP server; every command has `--json`. No first-party language SDK published.

Network & secrets

Egress controls

Secrets

Profile env vars with optional write-only secrets, injected into new VMs (`--profile`); OAuth integration credentials stored encrypted.

Bring your own cloud

Placement & use

Jurisdiction

Operator: France (Fundamental Software SAS, French law, courts of Annecy). Workload regions: US (NY/SF), UK (London), EU (Amsterdam), Asia (Singapore).

Advertised workloads

Reproducible dev environments (NixOS flakes / Ubuntu+Ansible), coding agents (Claude Code, Codex), autonomous agents (OpenClaw, Hermes), hosting web apps / databases / anything needing a stable address, long-running (6-8h coding / multi-day research) agent tasks.

03 Capabilities 13 pass · 6 partial · 34 fail · 54 of 61 assessed

Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
Not supported — Checked and not offered.
Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.

Compute & storage 6/9

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).

Supported

Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.

Not supported

Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).

Supported

Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.

Not assessed

Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.

Supported

GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.

Supported

Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.

Supported

Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).

Supported

Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.

Partially supported

Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.

Not supported

Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.

Not assessed

Networking & delivery 2/8

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.

Supported

Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.

Supported

Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.

Not supported

Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.

Not supported

Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.

Partially supported

Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).

Not supported

Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.

Not supported

Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.

Not supported

Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.

Not applicable

Developer access 2/9

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.

Partially supported

OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.

Partially supported

CLIOfficial command-line tool.

Supported

SDKOfficial client library/libraries.

Not supported

SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.

Supported

Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.

Partially supported

Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.

Not supported

Private container registryHosted private image registry.

Not supported

E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).

Not assessed

HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.

Not supported

AI & agents 2/10

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.

Not supported

Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.

Partially supported

AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.

Not supported

MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.

Supported

MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.

Supported

MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).

Not supported

LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).

Not supported

BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.

Not supported

Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.

Not supported

Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).

Not supported

Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).

Not assessed

Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).

Not assessed

Data 0/4

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.

Not supported

Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.

Not supported

Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.

Not supported

Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.

Not supported

Platform & operations 0/6

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.

Not supported

Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.

Not supported

Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).

Not supported

Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).

Not supported

Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.

Not supported

Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).

Not supported

Organisation & security 1/7

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.

Not supported

SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.

Not supported

Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.

Supported

TeamsMulti-user team accounts.

Not supported

SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).

Not supported

BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.

Not supported

Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).

Not assessed

Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).

Not assessed

Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.

Not supported

Proposed, not verified

Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.

Reproducible OS-as-code (NixOS flakes + one-command rollbacks / Ubuntu+Ansible)reproducible-os-image
“Deterministic builds, one-command rollbacks, no drift ... provision with Nix flakes or Ansible. All images are open source.” machine0.io
Per-VM authenticated HTTPS endpoint (owner-gated proxy)authenticated-workload-endpoint
“HTTPS endpoints at <vm>.mac0.io are authenticated to the VM owner.” docs.machine0.io

04 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

10/11

7 full · 3 partial · 91% of applicable checks

llms.txt
Supported
“docs.machine0.io/llms.txt — rich index linking every doc page + OpenAPI (apex /llms.txt 404s as SPA shell; docs-subdomain copy earns credit per rubric v3).”
llms-full.txt
Partially supported
“No single /llms-full.txt, but every doc page is served as clean .md (a comprehensive modular set).”
robots.txt AI policy
Partially supported
“No robots.txt (apex returns SPA 404 shell) → default-allow → half per rubric v3.”
JSON-LD
Not supported
“No application/ld+json on the homepage.”
Sitemap
Supported
“docs.machine0.io/sitemap.xml present and non-trivial (apex /sitemap.xml 404s as SPA shell).”
Meta tags
Supported
“Complete descriptive title + description + full OG/Twitter cards.”
Markdown negotiation
Supported
“Docs serve clean per-page .md (docs.machine0.io/<path>.md).”
Content efficiency
Partially supported
“Next.js SPA but SSR'd — real content present in initial HTML (~5% readable-text ratio); borderline.”
Docs discoverable
Supported
“'Documentation' link first-class in the header, reachable to docs.machine0.io.”
Machine-readable pricing
Supported
“Structured pricing tables (VM sizes with vCPU/RAM/disk/$hr) on the homepage + docs pricing page.”
No anti-bot wall
Supported
“No challenge on public content — all pages, docs, well-known files fetched cleanly.”

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

6/11

3 full · 3 partial · 55% of applicable checks

Public API
Partially supported
“Programmatic control via CLI + documented remote MCP server; no standalone documented REST API (api-reference serves a placeholder).”
OpenAPI spec
Partially supported
“docs/api-reference/openapi.json is fetchable but returns the Mintlify sample 'Plant Store' placeholder, not machine0's real spec.”
MCP server
Supported
“Documented hosted MCP endpoint app.machine0.io/mcp (streamable HTTP, OAuth RFC 9728 + x-api-key), with per-client setup docs.”
SDK packages
Not supported
“No official language SDK; integration is CLI + MCP.”
Auth documented
Supported
“Clear auth docs — MCP OAuth (RFC 9728) + x-api-key header; account-settings API keys.”
Self-serve credentials
Partially supported
“Signup → dashboard → 'Generate keys from your account settings' (human step); no documented programmatic key issuance.”
Webhooks
Not supported
“No webhooks documented.”
CLI tool
Supported
“Official machine0 CLI (curl-installed), --json on every command — the primary interface.”
Error model
Not supported
“No documented JSON error model (the OpenAPI reference is a placeholder).”
Rate limits documented
Not supported
“No documented rate limits / response headers.”
Agent config files
Not supported
“No agents.md / /.well-known/agent / skills listing (MCP is scored under mcp_server).”

05 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 4

Claude Code Anthropic
Supported
“Ubuntu pre-installed with Docker, Node, Python, Claude Code, and Codex; profiles integrate Claude Code with per-profile credentials; docs page 'Running Claude Code & Codex'.”
Source docs.machine0.io
Codex CLI OpenAI
Supported
“Images ship Codex pre-installed; 'Running Claude Code & Codex' example; Codex is a first-class profile integration.”
Source docs.machine0.io
OpenClaw Peter Steinberger
Supported
“Dedicated example + image (nixos-25-11-openclaw): 'Autonomous agents like OpenClaw and Hermes need their own machine ... Create a VM, SSH in, start the agent.'”
Source docs.machine0.io
Hermes Agent Nous Research
Supported
“Dedicated example + image (nixos-25-11-hermes): 'Running Hermes is similar — machine0 new hermes --image nixos-25-11-hermes'.”
Source docs.machine0.io

Plausible compatibility 12

Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.

Aider
Amp
Antigravity
Devin
Droid
Gemini CLI
Goose
Kilo Code
Kiro CLI
OpenCode
Pi
Qwen Code

06 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 1

GDPR
self-attestedhostedGDPR applies (EU/French operator); self-attested via the privacy policy, not a third-party audit.
“Privacy policy references GDPR, a DPA, and sub-processors; operated by a French SAS under French law.”
Source machine0.ioConfidence: medium

Regions 5

New York (GPU may run in Toronto)us-east
San Francisco (no GPU)us-west
Londonuk
Amsterdameu
Singaporeasia

Same price in all regions. GPUs available in us-east, uk, eu, asia (not us-west). Regions map to DigitalOcean datacenters (the underlying substrate).

Legal

Privacy notice Terms of service

07 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters: Les Houches, France (74310)
Founded: 2026
Team size: 1
Hiring: Unknown — no careers page found (machine0.io/careers 404).

Activity

Last release: 2026-07-21 machine0.io
Last blog post: No blog. machine0.io

Presence 6

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

08 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from machine0.io's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 23 Jul 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.

Statuses, not scores

Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v17). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.

Confidence is separate

Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.

Schema: scan v5
Features registry: v17
Keys tracked today: 61
Assessed on this entry: 54

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