# Ploomber

Official pricing: https://ploomber.io/  
Category: paas · Isolation: not published

## Pricing regimes (raw)

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

## Features

Yes: idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, HTTPS preview URLs, SSO, Python, inbound access rules

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, volumes, 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, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, HIPAA, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, Node.js, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, EU data residency, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), 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/ploomber.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- DISCONTINUED: Ploomber retired its app-hosting platform (Ploomber Cloud) on 2025-10-31 (official blog post 'Ploomber's app hosting platform is shutting down', Sep 09 2025, via Wayback). Deploys stopped 2025-10-03, all running apps shut down 2025-10-31. ploomber.io now has no A records (Namecheap zone, SOA serial = 2026-05-07; domain registered until 2027-01-25); the last Wayback captures of the site are 2026-04-21/22. YC lists the company as Inactive. Not a priceable provider.
- Inventory exclusion: inactive / DNS unavailable. 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.

## How this provider charges


YC: Winter 2022; directory status **Inactive**. Research scope: marginal-or-unavailable. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ploomber

Ploomber Cloud historical

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

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. YC marks Inactive and ploomber.io DNS fails. No currently verified public hosted product; discovery-only record, not a priced option.
2. Inventory exclusion: inactive / DNS unavailable. 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/ploomber

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.