# Archal

Official pricing: https://www.archal.ai/  
Category: agent-sandbox · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (sizes): one stateful provider environment ? vCPU/? GiB $6/h [alt, beta]

## Features

Yes: idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, HTTPS preview URLs, spend limits, MCP server, inbound access rules

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, volumes, start from your own snapshot, your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, Python, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, EU data residency, 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, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

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

## Caveats

- Simulated API environments, not established arbitrary Linux execution. $0.10 per environment-minute, second prorated; a sandbox with several environments pays each. $5 signup+$15 first ready sandbox. Paid continuation explicitly not available while safety rollout disabled; cannot sustain benchmark from $20 trial.
- 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.
- Concurrency: 'workspace policy limits concurrent sandboxes' (number unpublished); '429 can include Retry-After'; 'capacity can reject new work even when a balance is positive'. Configurable provider-call ceiling 100,000 per sandbox. TTL/idle/hard-expiry per lease; no plan-wide max published.
- Product is a catalog of 22 stateful simulated SaaS APIs (GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Supabase, Jira, ...), 110 curated starting states; not a Linux VM/container sandbox. Keep 'alt'.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2026; directory status **Active**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/archal

Stateful API simulation sandboxes

## 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.archal.ai/ |
| Current applicable tariff unverified | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.archal.ai/ |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.archal.ai/ |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.archal.ai/ |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.archal.ai/ |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.archal.ai/ |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Simulated API environments, not established arbitrary Linux execution. $0.10 per environment-minute, second prorated; a sandbox with several environments pays each. $5 signup+$15 first ready sandbox. Paid continuation explicitly not available while safety rollout disabled; cannot sustain benchmark from $20 trial.

## 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/archal
- https://archal.ai/
- https://docs.archal.ai/introduction
- https://archal.ai/llms.txt

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.