# Expanse

Official pricing: https://expanse.sh  
Category: gpu-cloud · Isolation: not published

## Pricing regimes (raw)

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

## Features

Yes: ≥24 h sessions, self-hosting, BYOC, SOC 2, EU data residency

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, volumes, idle auto-stop, start from your own snapshot, 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, open source, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, Python, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, 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/expanse.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Current product discovers idle GPU capacity in customer fleets; savings statistics are not an instance tariff. No standalone managed GPU rental established. Retain marginal software/operator lead.
- Inventory exclusion: customer GPU utilization software. 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.
- 2026-09-29: Expanse is software that predicts HPC/AI job resources (memory, runtime, failure risk) and diagnoses failures. It runs alongside SLURM/Kubernetes/Nomad on the customer's own cluster and sells no compute. /pricing has no pricing page (it serves the homepage), and the only CTA is 'Book a discovery call'. Keep it out of compute rankings.

## How this provider charges


YC: Spring 2026; directory status **Active**. Research scope: marginal-or-unavailable. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/expanse

GPU utilization platform

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

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Current product discovers idle GPU capacity in customer fleets; savings statistics are not an instance tariff. No standalone managed GPU rental established. Retain marginal software/operator lead.
2. Inventory exclusion: customer GPU utilization software. 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/expanse
- https://expanse.sh/

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.