# Specific

Official pricing: https://specific.dev/pricing  
Category: paas · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Hosted services** (sizes): Tiny 0.25 vCPU/0.5 GiB $0.009/h; Small 1 vCPU/2 GiB $0.025/h; Medium 2 vCPU/4 GiB $0.12/h; Large 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.24/h; XL 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.32/h; 2XL 8 vCPU/32 GiB $0.62/h [alt]

## Features

Yes: snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, volumes, idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), start from your own snapshot, your own Docker/OCI image, HTTPS preview URLs, custom domains, self-hosting, BYOC, SSO, Python, Node.js, Go, Rust, Java, live resize, scheduled runs (cron), EU data residency, scoped API keys, inbound access rules, extra volumes

No: memory snapshots, full VM (own kernel), 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, static egress IP, open source, SOC 2, HIPAA, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, wake on request, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/specific.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Services (web/workers/cron) priced separately from managed Postgres, workflows and object storage; those are not interchangeable compute units. Pro $25 and Scale $299 are usage-credit fees.
- Free service is only 0.25 vCPU/512 MB, not general 4/8. Raw usage card excludes database and workflow charges.
- 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.
- Referral: $100 usage credits per referred paid org, max 10 rewards, apply to metered usage only (not plan fees), expire after 12 months (ToS 2026-09-18). Startup credits up to $10,000 on request (funded startups only). Neither should be modelled as general free credit.
- Other metered products not in the card: Postgres $0.15/CU-h ($0.30 with real-time sync), $0.4/GB-month storage, $0.10/GB egress; Workflows $0.075/1000 actions, $0.07/GB-h active storage, $0.0016/GB-h retained; Object storage $0.03/GB-month, $0.005/1000 PUT, $0.0005/1000 GET, free egress.
- Pricing may change with 30 days notice, effective next monthly Subscription Period; auto-charged monthly.
- Spectest test environments are full Linux VMs (docs); no public pricing found, not modelled.

## How this provider charges


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

The cloud platform built for coding agents

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted services | alt | sizes; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Tiny: 0.25 vCPU/0.5 GiB $0.009/h; Small: 1 vCPU/2 GiB $0.025/h; Medium: 2 vCPU/4 GiB $0.12/h; Large: 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.24/h; XL: 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.32/h; 2XL: 8 vCPU/32 GiB $0.62/h | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Pro | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=25; included usage=$25; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Scale | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=299; included usage=$299; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Enterprise | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | $0.15 | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | $0.09 | https://specific.dev/pricing |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://specific.dev/pricing |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Services (web/workers/cron) priced separately from managed Postgres, workflows and object storage; those are not interchangeable compute units. Pro $25 and Scale $299 are usage-credit fees.
2. Free service is only 0.25 vCPU/512 MB, not general 4/8. Raw usage card excludes database and workflow charges.

## 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.

Large: 8,800×$0.24=$2,112. Pro $25 includes $25; 100 GB egress adds $9. If 50 GB are eligible persistent volume storage, add $7.50; snapshots specifically unknown. Subtotal $2,128.50 excluding databases and workflow actions; session/concurrency eligibility unverified.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/specific
- https://specific.dev/pricing
- https://docs.specific.dev
- https://specific.dev/
- https://specific.dev/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.