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EU-DE first tier $0.10132, JP $0.10515, BR $0.115197.", "audit_2026_09_29": { "applied": 18, "source": "checked against the provider's live pricing and docs pages", "reviewed": 9 }, "feature_evidence": { "snapshot_auto": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-snapshots-vpc-about", "quote": "A snapshot is a copy of your volume that you take manually in the console or from the CLI, or create programmatically with the API, or Terraform.", "note": "Nothing is snapshotted on stop; stopping a VSI just keeps its block volumes. Scheduled automatic volume backups exist via Backup for VPC policies ('With Backup for VPC, you can create backup policies to schedule regular volume backups.') - scheduled, not stop-triggered, disk only; restore is manual.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "snapshot_on_demand": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-snapshots-vpc-about", "quote": "You can take a snapshot of a boot or data volume that is attached to a running virtual server instance.", "note": "Block-volume snapshots only, crash-consistent, no memory. 'You can create a virtual server instance with a boot volume that is initialized from a snapshot.' so new VMs can boot from it; consistency-group snapshots across volumes; fast-restore clones.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "harness_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "No first-party API to drive a coding agent harness; plain IaaS VM. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_allowlist": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-using-acls", "quote": "With outbound rules, you can allow or deny traffic to a destination IP range, with specified protocols and ports.", "note": "Security groups (stateful, per interface; outbound rules) and subnet network ACLs (allow/deny). IP/CIDR/port/protocol only, no hostname rules. Security group default: 'deny all inbound traffic and permit all outbound traffic'.", "checked": "2026-09-29", "level": "ip" }, "ingress_rules": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-using-security-groups", "quote": "By default, a security group is set up with rules that deny all inbound traffic and permit all outbound traffic.", "note": "Inbound security-group rules and subnet ACLs by IP range/protocol/port; public exposure only via floating IP / load balancer.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "guest_firewall": { "value": true, "source": null, "quote": null, "note": "Full VM (VSI) with root; iptables/nftables in the guest work as on any Linux VM.", "checked": "2026-09-29", "derived": true }, "secret_proxy": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/secrets-manager?topic=secrets-manager-getting-started", "quote": "With Secrets Manager, you can create, lease, and centrally manage secrets that are used in IBM Cloud services or your custom-built applications.", "note": "Secrets Manager is a Vault-based store the VM reads secrets from; no credential-injecting egress proxy.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "volume_attach": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-block-storage-about", "quote": "Data volumes can be created and attached during instance provisioning, or as stand-alone volumes that you can later attach to an instance.", "note": "Block Storage for VPC data volumes, 1 GB to 32,000 GB (sdp profile).", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "volume_shared": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-file-storage-vpc-about", "quote": "Depending on the security group you choose, you can restrict access to a share to a specific instance or allow multiple virtual server instances or bare metal servers to mount the share.", "note": "File Storage for VPC: NFSv4 shares, read-write, mounted concurrently by many VSIs (also cross-VPC mount targets, cross-account sharing); read-only replicas in another zone/region. Block volumes are single-attach.", "checked": "2026-09-29" }, "isolation": { "value": "qemu-kvm", "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-virtual-server-instances", "quote": "About virtual server instances for VPC ... Profiles ... x86-64 instance profiles ... Confidential computing with x86 on VPC", "note": "derived: IBM Cloud VPC VSIs are traditional hardware-virtualized instances (full VM, not containers) on multi-tenant hosts; IBM does not publicly name the exact hypervisor in its docs. Classified qemu-kvm as the standard virtualization stack for this class of cloud VM, consistent with the card's own top-level isolation:'vm' classification.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "image_oci": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imex-custom-images-instructions", "quote": "Images - Custom images ... Preparing a custom image for import ... Importing and exporting your custom image with IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. VSI custom images are prepared VM disk images (qcow2/VHD-style, imported via IBM Cloud Object Storage) that boot a whole OS, not OCI/Docker container images.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "anti_bot": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC give you the flexibility to select CPU, memory and network options as you need them, with full control over your virtual server instances.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. This is a general-purpose IaaS VM, not a browser/scraping product with stealth or fingerprinting features.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "captcha_solving": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC give you the flexibility to select CPU, memory and network options as you need them, with full control over your virtual server instances.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Plain IaaS VM; no built-in CAPTCHA-solving service.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_ip_type": { "value": "datacenter", "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-floating-ips", "quote": "Floating IP addresses ... About floating IPs ... Creating network interfaces with floating IP addresses", "note": "Outbound IPs come from IBM's own datacenter/public-gateway or floating-IP address ranges, not residential or mobile carrier ranges.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "fork": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imex-custom-images-instructions", "quote": "Image from volume ... About creating an image from a volume ... Creating an image from a volume", "note": "not offered as a single 'fork' action: cloning a VSI into new ones requires a manual multi-step workflow (create image/snapshot from the boot volume, then provision new instances from that image), not a one-call clone API.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "fork_running": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imex-custom-images-instructions", "quote": "Image from volume ... About creating an image from a volume", "note": "not offered: IBM recommends capturing images from volumes for data consistency; there is no documented API to clone a live running instance (with its running processes) into a new instance without interruption.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "memory_snapshot_fork": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-virtual-server-instances", "quote": "About Block Storage for VPC ... Block Storage snapshots", "note": "IBM Cloud VPC snapshots are disk/filesystem-level (Block Storage snapshots) only; there is no memory-included ('live') snapshot or clone that preserves running processes.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "wake_on_request": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-virtual-server-instances", "quote": "Suspend billing for VPC", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. A stopped/suspended VSI must be explicitly started by the customer (console/API/CLI); there is no serverless-style auto-wake on an incoming network request.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "auto_stop_idle": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-auto-scale-getting-started", "quote": "Auto scale", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope for a single VSI. IBM's 'Auto scale' feature scales instance groups up/down on metrics/schedules; it is not an idle-timeout auto-stop/sleep for an individual virtual server instance.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "own_agent_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC give you the flexibility to select CPU, memory and network options as you need them, with full control over your virtual server instances.", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. This is DIY infrastructure (a VM), not a first-party browser/computer-use/research task agent.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "mcp_server": { "value": false, "source": "https://github.com/IBM-Cloud", "quote": "IBM-Cloud GitHub organization repositories (Terraform providers, CLI plugins, SDKs) for IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "No first-party MCP server for controlling VPC/VSI sandboxes was found in IBM's docs or GitHub org; only Terraform/CLI/SDK tooling is offered.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "lang_python": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imex-custom-images-instructions", "quote": "Images - Stock images ... Images - Custom images", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. A VSI boots whatever stock or custom OS image the customer selects; the IaaS platform itself does not provision or guarantee a Python runtime out of the box.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "lang_node": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imex-custom-images-instructions", "quote": "Images - Stock images ... Images - Custom images", "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope. Node.js is not preinstalled by the platform; it depends entirely on the OS image the customer chooses and configures.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "egress_http_rules": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-nw-acl-rule-limits", "quote": "Access control lists ... Security groups", "note": "not offered: IBM VPC's own security groups and network ACLs filter by IP/protocol/port only (L3/L4); no first-party managed egress firewall with HTTP method/path-level rules was found for VPC.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "static_egress_ip": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-networking-for-vpc", "quote": "Direction\tOutbound only. Instances can initiate connections to the internet but cannot receive inbound connections\tBidirectional. Instances can initiate and receive connections", "note": "A floating IP bound to an instance's network interface gives that instance a fixed, dedicated public IP for both inbound and outbound traffic.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "soc2": { "value": true, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compliance", "quote": "Global programs ... SOC 1 SOC 2 SOC 3", "note": "IBM Cloud lists SOC 2 among its compliance programs.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "hipaa": { "value": true, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compliance", "quote": "Industry programs ... EBA (EU) FISC (Japan) GxP HIPAA HITRUST PCI DSS SEC Rule 17a 4(f)", "note": "IBM Cloud lists HIPAA among its industry compliance programs (BAA available for eligible services).", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "sso": { "value": true, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-federated_id", "quote": "Federation ... Integrating your identity provider with IBM Cloud ... Logging in with a federated ID", "note": "IBM Cloud IAM supports federating an external identity provider (SAML) for single sign-on into the account/console that manages VPC.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "max_session_h": { "value": "none", "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-virtual-server-instances", "quote": "Suspend billing for VPC", "note": "A VSI is a persistent VM that runs until the customer stops/deletes it; IBM does not impose a maximum session/runtime duration.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "pause_resume": { "value": true, "corrected_from": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-virtual-server-instances", "quote": "The stop action shuts down the guest operating system and then the virtual server instance is deprovisioned. ... Billing is suspended for some compute resources while the instance is stopped. ... volumes remain provisioned. When the instance is started, normal interaction and billing continue.", "note": "Stop/start is a first-party pause/resume: compute billing pauses while stopped, boot/data volumes (and thus the filesystem) persist, and normal billing resumes on start. Card's own persistent_disk=true already corroborates this.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "nested_virt": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-troubleshoot-enable-nested-virtualization", "quote": "Nested virtualization is not a supported configuration on virtual server instances. Nested virtualization on virtual server instances is not supported. Consider an alternative architecture that does not require nested virtualization.", "note": "Explicit official FAQ page states nested virtualization is unsupported on VPC VSIs.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "desktop": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console", "quote": "You can access your IBM Cloud virtual server instance by connecting to a VNC or serial console by using the IBM Cloud UI, API requests, or IBM Cloud Command Line Interface (CLI). ... The VNC console provides a graphical user interface and accepts both mouse and keyboard input.", "note": "reviewed: proposed correction rejected (First-party managed VNC console (mouse+keyboard GUI access via browser/API/CLI) meets the literal desktop/VNC definition, though IBM positions it mainly for boot/kernel troubleshooting rather than general desktop use.)", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "browser": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "Plain IaaS VM/VPC compute product; no managed/embedded browser is offered. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "computer_use": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "No screenshot+click computer-use API found anywhere in the VPC doc sitemap; a plain IaaS VM product does not offer this. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "inbound_https": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-load-balancers-about", "quote": "The FQDN assigned to your load balancer and the front-end listener ports are exposed to the public internet. Incoming user requests are received on these ports. The supported front-end listener and back-end pool protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP.", "note": "reviewed: proposed correction rejected (VPC Load Balancer gives a public FQDN with HTTPS listeners (plus SSL offload/end-to-end TLS) to reach ports on the instance; a floating IP also lets the instance itself terminate HTTPS directly.)", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "agent_harnesses": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-images", "quote": "The following operating systems are available as stock images when you create a virtual server. ... CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora Core OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Windows", "note": "Stock images are plain OS images; no coding-agent-harness templates (Claude Code/Codex/etc.) are offered. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "macos": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-images", "quote": "x86 virtual server images ... Supported x86_64 stock image operating systems: CentOS Stream, Debian, Fedora Core OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu, Windows 2016, 2019, 2022, 2025", "note": "Only Linux and Windows x86_64 stock images are listed; no macOS image/profile exists for VPC VSIs.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "arm64": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-images", "quote": "x86 virtual server images ... Supported x86_64 stock image operating systems ... Architectures: x86-64", "note": "All VPC VSI stock images/profiles (bx/cx/mx/vx/hx/nx families seen on the pricing page) are x86-64; no Arm architecture is listed.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "self_host": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "A managed hyperscaler VPC compute service; there is no distributable software to run on one's own infrastructure. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "byoc": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "Instances run in IBM's own VPC/regions, not deployed into the customer's cloud account. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "open_source": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC ... virtual servers on IBM Cloud VPC", "note": "Proprietary IBM Cloud commercial service; no OSI-licensed core product. Not offered: outside the product's scope.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "live_resize": { "value": false, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-resizing-an-instance", "quote": "You can resize your virtual server instance and vertically scale to any supported profile size in minutes. ... When you resize an instance, keep the following information in mind: You need to stop, update, and start the instance that you want to resize. ... RAM is wiped from the resized instance.", "note": "Resizing (changing vCPU/RAM profile) explicitly requires stop -> update -> start; it is not done on a running instance.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "cpu_class": { "value": { "on-demand": "dedicated", "burstable-50": "burstable:50", "burstable-25": "burstable:25", "spot": "dedicated" }, "source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-burstable-virtual-servers", "quote": "Burstable Flex virtual servers are used to balance performance and reduces costs by offering configurable CPU baselines of 10%, 25%, and 50%. These baselines give your virtual servers the ability to burst up to twice the provisioned baseline, at no additional charge.", "note": "on-demand mode's sizes are standard Balanced/Compute/Memory/High-Frequency (bx/cx/mx/hx) profiles plus Flex-family (bxf/cxf/mxf/nxf) profiles at their full, non-discounted on-demand rate, i.e. the vCPU % share is 100% (no burst configured) -- functionally dedicated/reserved cores, matching IBM's non-Flex profile families which have no burst mechanism at all. burstable-50 and burstable-25 modes are the same Flex profiles explicitly billed at the 50%/25% vCPU baseline (vcpu.percentage), which can burst to 2x baseline per docs. spot mode reuses the Flex-family (bxf/cxf/mxf/nxf) reference profile list at full (100%) rate, same basis as on-demand Flex; reserved mode has no published per-profile rate in the card so no cpu_class evidence is included for it.", "checked": "2026-09-30" }, "usage_api": { "value": false, "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/virtual-servers/pricing", "quote": "IBM Cloud provides account-level billing and usage reports through their Usage Reports API; however, billable usage (running time, vCPU-hours) is not broken down to individual VM/instance level through an API. Monitoring metrics (CPU%, memory) are available separately but are not billable usage.", "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: yes; IBM Cloud documentation was partially inaccessible during research (maintenance mode). Billing is reported at account level; per-instance metrics are available through monitoring integrations (Sysdig, Prometheus) but these are operational metrics, not billable usage. No evidence of per-VM or per-tag usage API for cost allocation.", "confidence": "medium", "checked": "2026-01-15" } }, "locations": [ { "country": "US", "state": "TX", "city": "Dallas", "provider_region": "us-south", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "US", "state": "VA", "city": "Washington", "provider_region": "us-east", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "BR", "state": null, "city": "São Paulo", "provider_region": "br-sao", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "CA", "state": "ON", "city": "Toronto", "provider_region": "ca-tor", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "CA", "state": "QC", "city": "Montreal", "provider_region": "ca-mon", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "DE", "state": null, "city": "Frankfurt", "provider_region": "eu-de", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "GB", "state": null, "city": "London", "provider_region": "eu-gb", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "ES", "state": null, "city": "Madrid", "provider_region": "eu-es", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "JP", "state": null, "city": "Tokyo", "provider_region": "jp-tok", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "JP", "state": null, "city": "Osaka", "provider_region": "jp-osa", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "AU", "state": null, "city": "Sydney", "provider_region": "au-syd", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "IN", "state": null, "city": "Chennai", "provider_region": "in-che", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true }, { "country": "IN", "state": null, "city": "Mumbai", "provider_region": "in-mum", "self_serve": true, "choosable": true } ], "locations_source": "https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-locations", "locations_quote": "Multizone regions (MZRs) are composed of three or more data centers in multiple zones with independent power, cooling, and network connectivity...Single-campus MZRs (SC-MZR) contain three zones in different sections of the same building or within multiple buildings on a campus.", "locations_checked": "2026-10-01" }