# Cedana

Official pricing: https://cedana.com/  
Category: other (checkpoint/restore software; not a compute provider) · Isolation: not published

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (resource) [alt]

## Features

Yes: snapshots, memory snapshots, pause/resume, persistent disk, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), start from your own snapshot, self-hosting, open source, arm64, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, extra volumes

No: fork/clone, idle auto-stop, your own Docker/OCI image, Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, BYOC, GPU, Windows, macOS, Python, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, shared volumes

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

## Caveats

- Live migration and orchestration optimize own GPU infrastructure; public site lacks compute rental price. Software/license pricing and host cost separate; marginal to compute-provider estimator.
- Inventory exclusion: migration software for own infrastructure. Card contains no numeric compute modes and no selectable price plan.
- 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.
- Docs expose a 'Cloud Bursting' API (POST /v1/instances with shade_instance_type/shade_cloud, hourly_price per instance type) and a 'Pricing' API where the customer enters their own on-demand/spot $/h per instance type; these are customer-configured cost inputs and brokered third-party instances, not a Cedana public tariff.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2023; directory status **Active**. Research scope: marginal-or-unavailable. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana

CPU/GPU checkpoint-migration software

## 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://cedana.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://cedana.ai |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://cedana.ai |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://cedana.ai |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://cedana.ai |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://cedana.ai |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Live migration and orchestration optimize own GPU infrastructure; public site lacks compute rental price. Software/license pricing and host cost separate; marginal to compute-provider estimator.
2. Inventory exclusion: migration software for own infrastructure. Card contains no numeric compute modes and no selectable price plan.

## 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/cedana
- https://cedana.com/
- https://cedana.com/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.