# PoplarML

Official pricing: http://poplarml.com  
Category: gpu-cloud · Isolation: not published

## Pricing regimes (raw)

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

## Features

Yes: ≥24 h sessions, HTTPS preview URLs, GPU, Python

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, egress allowlist, static egress IP, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, 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), 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/poplarml.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- YC says custom ML models deploy to GPU endpoints. Public website failed TLS verification and current pricing could not be established; access failure alone is not proof of death.
- Inventory exclusion: public product inaccessible; current hosting unverified. 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.
- Status evidence 2026-09-29: poplarml.com and www TLS certificate expired 2025-02-07 (CN=poplarml.com); bypassing TLS, CloudFront returns S3 'NoSuchBucket' for bucket poplarml.com-content. app./docs./api. subdomains no longer resolve in DNS. Only https://auth.api.poplarml.com/ (AWS API Gateway) still answers {"status":200}. Wayback: last 200 capture of the homepage 2024-04-21; every homepage capture since 2024-09-18 is 404. YC directory still lists the company as Active, team size 2, website http://poplarml.com.
- PoplarML never published a price: the last live homepage (Wayback 2024-04-21) had a 'Pricing' nav item but no pricing content, 'Docs — Coming soon', and described one-click CLI deploys of TensorFlow/PyTorch/JAX models 'to a fleet of GPUs' with REST inference endpoints (a model-serving product, not a sandbox/VM).

## How this provider charges


YC: Winter 2023; directory status **Active**. Research scope: marginal-or-unavailable. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/poplarml

GPU model deployments

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

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. YC says custom ML models deploy to GPU endpoints. Public website failed TLS verification and current pricing could not be established; access failure alone is not proof of death.
2. Inventory exclusion: public product inaccessible; current hosting unverified. 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/poplarml

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.