# Ellipsis

Official pricing: https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing  
Category: agent-sandbox · Isolation: qemu-kvm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **On-demand** (resource): $0.141912/vCPU-h, $0.024192/GiB-h
- **Own AWS VPC** (resource) [alt]

## Features

Yes: snapshots, memory snapshots, pause/resume, persistent disk, idle auto-stop, custom image (Docker or snapshot), start from your own snapshot, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, preinstalled agents, self-hosting, BYOC, SOC 2, Python, Node.js, wake on request, webhooks, scheduled runs (cron), audit logs, spend limits, automatic snapshots, agent harness API, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy

No: fork/clone, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, your own Docker/OCI image, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, open source, HIPAA, SSO, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, EU data residency, MCP server, snapshots on demand, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

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

## Caveats

- Managed SaaS CPU $0.142/vCPU-hour and memory $0.024/GB-hour plus a 20% platform fee (charged on credit purchases, i.e. on token and compute spend). No per-seat or idle charges. Active lifecycle is not confirmed per-core utilization billing.
- BYOC uses customer AWS compute and a 20% platform fee; cannot reuse SaaS resource rates. Support $5k/$10k/$15k per month is optional, not required plan.
- YC mentions $100 credit; current pricing page did not confirm eligibility, so no unconditional free credit encoded.
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Re-checked 2026-09-28 (ellipsis.dev/pricing, ellipsis.dev/llms.txt): Managed SaaS CPU $0.142/vCPU-h and memory $0.024/GB-h confirmed; NO published disk, snapshot or egress price, no SSH, desktop or browser statement, no sandbox size limit or billing granularity. These stay null (unknown, not free/absent).
- Coding-agent platform: sandboxes run Ellipsis agent sessions (automations, @ellipsis), billed tokens + 20% platform fee (not modeled).
- Session budget default $250 and hard max $250 per session; agent/handler defaults $1,000/day, $10,000/week, $40,000 per 28 days. Support packages $5,000/$10,000/$15,000 per month are optional.

## How this provider charges


YC: Winter 2024; directory status **Active**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ellipsis

Cloud platform for coding agents

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | Public listed mode | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | $0.142/vCPU-h + $0.024/GiB-h; multiplier 1 | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| Own AWS VPC | AWS infrastructure plus 10% token cost; rates depend on AWS. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| Managed usage | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=0; included usage=$0; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Managed SaaS CPU $0.142/vCPU-hour and memory $0.024/GB-hour plus 10% of token spend. No per-seat or idle charges. Active lifecycle is not confirmed per-core utilization billing.
2. BYOC uses customer AWS compute and 10% token platform fee; cannot reuse SaaS resource rates. Support $5k/$10k/$15k per month is optional, not required plan.
3. YC mentions $100 credit; current pricing page did not confirm eligibility, so no unconditional free credit encoded.

## 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.

Allocated active-session illustration: 8,800×(4×0.142+8×0.024)=$6,688 plus 10% of model-token cost and unknown storage/network. CPU utilization alone cannot be applied without confirmation of meter semantics.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ellipsis
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/pricing
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/docs
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/
- https://www.ellipsis.dev/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.