# Aptible

Official pricing: https://www.aptible.com  
Category: paas · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (resource): $0/vCPU-h, $0.08/GiB-h [alt, burstable]
- **CPU-Optimized (C) container profile** (resource): $0/vCPU-h, $0.1/GiB-h [alt, burstable]
- **Memory Optimized (R) container profile** (resource): $0/vCPU-h, $0.05/GiB-h [alt, burstable]

## Features

Yes: persistent disk, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, SSH, HTTPS preview URLs, custom domains, raw TCP inbound, static egress IP, private networking, self-hosting, BYOC, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, Python, Node.js, EU data residency, inbound access rules, secret proxy, extra volumes

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, public IPv4, egress allowlist, open source, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, usage per sandbox (API), automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy for any API, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/aptible.json → feature_evidence

## Company

- Ownership: acquired (Opti9 Technologies (portfolio company of Crest Rock Partners))
- Stage: series-a [source](https://www.aptible.com/blog/announcing-aptible-12-million-series-a-funding)
- Accelerators: Y Combinator Summer 2014 [source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aptible), Rock Health 2014 class [source](https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/backed-by-yc-and-rock-health-aptible-handles-the-hard-parts-of-hipaa-compliance/)
- Total raised: $23.8M (estimated: Owler aggregator total funding figure ($23.8M), consistent with confirmed seed (YC + Rock Health, amount undisclosed) plus the confirmed $12M Series A) [source](https://www.owler.com/company/aptible)
- Last round: series-a, $12M, 2019-06, led by Maverick Ventures (confirmed) [source](https://www.aptible.com/blog/announcing-aptible-12-million-series-a-funding)
- Investors: Maverick Ventures, Thrive Capital, WTI (Western Technology Investment), Y Combinator, Rock Health, Decibel
- Revenue: unknown

Founded 2013 by Chas Ballew and Frank Macreery; YC S14 and Rock Health alum. Raised a $12M Series A (Maverick Ventures lead, with Thrive Capital and WTI) announced June 2019. On Nov 17-18, 2025, Aptible was acquired by Opti9 Technologies, a portfolio company of Denver PE firm Crest Rock Partners; Aptible continues to operate as its own product/brand under Opti9, with co-founder Frank Macreery joining Opti9's executive team. No financial terms of the 2025 acquisition were disclosed.

## Caveats

- Development $0 platform, Production $499/mo plus resources. Container profiles are priced per GB RAM-hour with CPU bundled: General Purpose (M) $0.08 at 4 GB/vCPU (= $0.32/vCPU-h incl. RAM), CPU-Optimized (C) $0.10 at 2 GB/vCPU ($0.20/vCPU-h), Memory-Optimized (R) $0.05 at 8 GB/vCPU ($0.40/vCPU-h); C and R need Production+. Endpoints $0.06/h, shared HTTP(S) endpoints $0.04/h; dedicated stacks $499/mo, VPN peer $99/mo; databases/backups ($0.02/GB-month) extra. API gateway credits unrelated to compute.
- Regions: only us-east-1, us-west-1, eu-central-1, ca-central-1, ap-south-1 and ap-southeast-2 are available on Shared Stacks (the only kind on the free Development plan). Ohio, Oregon, São Paulo, Ireland, London, Paris, Tokyo and Singapore are Dedicated-Stack only: Production ($499/mo) or Enterprise, provisioned by Aptible Support on request. Aptible: "You can not host sensitive or regulated data with shared stacks."
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Native browser/device/task/credit prices with unknown CPU/RAM are deliberately non-priceable. Check regime before interpreting any partial resource estimate.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2014; directory status **Acquired**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aptible

Compliant app containers

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native product; see regime notes | Incomplete or non-resource economics: rates remain null, never interpreted as free. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://www.aptible.com |
| Development | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=0; included usage=$0; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.aptible.com |
| Production | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=499; included usage=$0; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.aptible.com |
| Enterprise | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.aptible.com |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.aptible.com |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.aptible.com |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.aptible.com |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.aptible.com |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Development $0 platform, Production $499/mo plus resources. General purpose $0.08/GB RAM-hour, CPU-optimized $0.10, RAM-optimized $0.05. vCPU ratios need confirmation. Endpoints $0.06/h; dedicated stacks $499/mo, VPN peer $99/mo; databases/backup extra. API gateway credits unrelated to compute.

## Worked example

Requested: 4 vCPU/8 GiB, 50 simultaneous × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU; 50 GiB snapshots and 100 GiB egress. A month is 730 hours only when explicitly used in rate conversion.

**Total: unknown.** This product does not publish a verified complete 4-vCPU/8-GiB tariff and/or the service bills a different unit. Fifty concurrent instances and eight-hour sessions are not automatically supported. Neither 30% utilization nor retained snapshots can be converted into free resources. Use the native plan terms above and request the missing CPU/RAM, retention, egress and concurrency quote.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aptible
- https://www.aptible.com/
- https://www.aptible.com/pricing
- https://www.aptible.com/docs/getting-started/home

Page captures and documentation indexes/bundles are in `raw/`; provider JSON lists the evidence paths. HN query results were captured separately as `<id>--hn.txt`; they are discovery leads, not current tariff authority. Downloaded docs do not imply every feature was verified; unsupported assertions remain null.