# Manufact

Official pricing: https://manufact.com  
Category: paas · Isolation: firecracker

## Pricing regimes (raw)

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

## Features

Yes: idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), HTTPS preview URLs, custom domains, open internet, BYOC, SOC 2, SSO, Python, Node.js, wake on request, EU data residency, spend limits, MCP server, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), inbound access rules

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, volumes, start from your own snapshot, Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, open source, HIPAA, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, 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/manufact.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Hobby $30/month ($25/month billed yearly, $300/year) with $30 credits; Startup $300/month ($250 yearly, $3,000/year) with $300 credits; Free $0 with $5 credits; Enterprise from $1,000/month. There is NO runtime/CPU/RAM meter. The credit pool (1 credit = $0.01) is drawn by: requests (MCP tools/call only) $0.10 per 1,000; build minutes $0.07/min; bandwidth egress $0.15/GB; eval runs $1; publishing checklist $0.10/run; end-to-end checks $2/run; submission pack $5; managed-chat LLM output $5 per 1M tokens. Rates are the same on every 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.

## How this provider charges


YC: Summer 2025; directory status **Active**. Research scope: public-product-researched. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manufact

Hosted MCP servers

## 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://manufact.com |
| Free | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=0; included usage=$5; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://manufact.com |
| Hobby monthly | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=30; included usage=$30; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://manufact.com |
| Startup monthly | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=300; included usage=$300; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://manufact.com |
| Enterprise | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://manufact.com |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://manufact.com |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://manufact.com |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://manufact.com |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://manufact.com |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Monthly Hobby $30 with $30 credits, Startup $300 with $300; annual $25/$250 monthly equivalent. Free $5 monthly. Plan credits also pay other platform services. Enterprise starts $1000/mo. Usage breakdown must separate runtime, requests, inspection, logs and tests; pricing page raw dump retained.

## 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/manufact
- https://manufact.com/
- https://manufact.com/pricing
- https://docs.manufact.com/dashboard
- https://manufact.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.