# Pipeshift

Official pricing: https://pipeshift.com  
Category: gpu-cloud · Isolation: dedicated-vm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

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

## Features

Yes: ≥24 h sessions, full VM (own kernel), BYOC, SOC 2, GPU, EU data residency, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel)

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, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, open source, HIPAA, SSO, 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/pipeshift.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Public low-latency inference orchestration product and BYOC; no verified general-purpose sandbox tariff. Custom models may fit developer compute, but no published fixed 4/8 configuration.
- 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.
- Order Forms may carry a committed term (a minimum period that cannot be terminated for convenience); fees non-refundable once incurred; late fees 1.5%/month. Billing is metered usage invoiced monthly in arrears, but the metering unit (GPU-hours vs tokens) is not published.
- The 'Sandbox' on the homepage is a model-API playground ('Sandbox APIs to test models and prototype your products'), not a code-execution sandbox/VM. Public API (api.pipeshift.com/openapi.json) exposes only chat completions, embeddings, rerank, audio transcription and health endpoints.

## How this provider charges


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

Real-time inference infrastructure

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

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Public low-latency inference orchestration product and BYOC; no verified general-purpose sandbox tariff. Custom models may fit developer compute, but no published fixed 4/8 configuration.

## 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/pipeshift
- https://pipeshift.com/

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.