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  "Current rendered homepage promotes an AI-spend management subscription $10,000/year; this is not a GPU rental price. Compute and agent tabs exist, but no verified all-in hardware tariff.",
  "Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.",
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  "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
  "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
  "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments.md",
  "https://strongcompute.com/",
  "https://strongcompute.com/pricing-calculator"
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   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers",
   "quote": "Unlike ordinary containers, Strong Compute containers automatically persist their state when they are stopped and started, so you do not need to install your project dependencies all over again.",
   "note": "ISC dev containers: on stop the container filesystem is committed as a new image layer and shipped to cloud storage ('committed to the container image and shipped back to cloud storage when the container is stopped'), then restored on the next start on any cluster/burst workstation. Also committed when an interruptible/burst experiment is launched. Filesystem only, no memory/processes. Skipped with `isc container stop --no-save` (changes lost). /shared and /data scratch volumes are not saved. Containers auto-stop when org balance runs out (May 2025 changelog); no idle auto-stop documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "snapshot_on_demand": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/january-2026.md",
   "quote": "Container image clone: users can create new base images from their container image, which can then be used to create new containers.",
   "note": "`isc container restart` (CLI inside the container or Control Plane) commits the running container's changes to its image on demand, but restarts it and kills SSH sessions. Image clone turns a container image into a base image for new containers (template-like fork). Disk only, no memory. Experiment 'Checkpoint artifacts' are app-level training checkpoints (cycling_utils AtomicDirectory), not machine snapshots.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "harness_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/isc-commands-cli.md",
   "quote": "Users can access the ISC API from within their development container which includes the following commands. * `isc ping` ... * `isc experiments` ... * `isc train /<path>/<to>/<experiment-launch-file>.isc` ... * `isc cancel <experiment-id>` ... * `isc container restart` ... * `isc container stop`",
   "note": "Full docs site (llms.txt index) was crawled: the only programmatic surfaces are the `isc` CLI (auth check, experiment train/list/cancel, container restart/stop) plus beta experiment-creation endpoints, all aimed at launching/managing PyTorch training experiments on ISC, and separately the FinOps SaaS (BYO cloud API keys for cost tracking). No SDK/API for spinning up or controlling coding-agent sandboxes, no 'agent harness', 'Claude', 'Codex', or similar terms anywhere in the docs index. The 'agent' mentions in the docs (Agent Smith Lite metrics collector; GitBook's own doc-query 'Agent Instructions' boilerplate) are unrelated to AI coding agents. Confirms the recorded false.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "secret_proxy": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/advanced-and-coming-soon/saving-and-working-with-data/a-guide-for-fast-pull-push-for-s3-compatible-object-storage.md",
   "quote": "Configure the credentials for your object storage",
   "note": "No secrets feature or credential proxy; the docs tell users to write S3 keys into ~/.aws/credentials inside the container. Dataset import credentials are entered in Control Plane (provider-side fetch), and the FinOps product stores vendor API keys encrypted, but neither injects credentials into sandbox traffic.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "volume_attach": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/datasets.md",
   "quote": "Your dataset will then be mounted to your development container at `/data/<dataset-id>` and available there to you during development.",
   "note": "Only persistent attachable storage is Datasets: immutable, read-only, up to 1 TB, imported from an S3-compatible bucket or Hugging Face, selected at container start. Containers capped at 50 GB. No persistent read-write volumes ('In future we are looking at developing methods to have persistent storage for larger read/write needs').",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
  },
  "volume_shared": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers",
   "quote": "Is read-write accessible to all containers belonging to the same organisation running in interactive mode on a cluster.",
   "note": "/shared: read-write, org-private, 100 GB per cluster, scratch (not shipped to cloud storage; on burst workstations it is created empty and private to that container). Datasets are also mounted read-only by many containers/experiment nodes at once.",
   "checked": "2026-09-29"
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  "isolation": {
   "value": "container",
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "Just like ordinary containers, Strong Compute containers represent running instances of images.",
   "note": null,
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "image_oci": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "Users can create containers based on public images available out-of-the-box in Strong Compute, or can import private images from Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, or custom/private container registries.",
   "note": null,
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "nested_virt": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "Just like ordinary containers, Strong Compute containers represent running instances of images.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — machines are shared-kernel containers on training clusters/cloud instances, no /dev/kvm or nested virtualization documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "desktop": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/compute-and-training/1.-access-strong-compute.md",
   "quote": "ssh -p <port> root@<host>",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — access is SSH/CLI/Control-Plane only for ML training; no VNC/RDP graphical desktop is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "browser": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — GPU training/FinOps platform, not a browser-hosting product.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — no screenshot/click desktop-driving API documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "anti_bot": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — a GPU training/FinOps platform has no browser stealth/fingerprinting feature.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "captcha_solving": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — no CAPTCHA-solving feature for a GPU training/FinOps platform.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "egress_ip_type": {
   "value": "datacenter",
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "Products of these types may be associated with Strong Compute hardware or commercial cloud hardware procured wholesale (e.g. a \"burst\" workstation or \"burst\" training cluster).",
   "note": "All backing compute is Strong Compute's own cluster or wholesale commercial cloud GPU/CPU instances (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, etc.) — standard datacenter IP ranges, not residential/mobile.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "snapshot": {
   "value": "fs",
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "User container data is stored in cloud storage when the container is Offline, downloaded to a burst workstation or a cluster when the user requests to start the container, committed to the container image and shipped back to cloud storage when the container is stopped.",
   "note": "Disk/filesystem-only commit-to-image on stop; no memory/process state is preserved (scratch volumes /shared and /data are wiped on stop).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/january-2026.md",
   "quote": "Container image clone: users can create new base images from their container image, which can then be used to create new containers.",
   "note": "A container's image can be cloned into a new base image and used to create new containers (disk-state clone of a stopped/committed image, not a live-running clone).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "fork_running": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/january-2026.md",
   "quote": "Container image clone: users can create new base images from their container image, which can then be used to create new containers.",
   "note": "Cloning operates on the committed container image (disk state), not a running machine that keeps executing while being cloned; no fork-while-running is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "memory_snapshot_fork": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "committed to the container image and shipped back to cloud storage when the container is stopped",
   "note": "Snapshots/clones are filesystem-image commits only; no memory or running-process state is captured or restored.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "pause_resume": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "Users are billed for time that the container is Running and for cloud storage of container data.",
   "note": "Containers can be Stopped (billing for container runtime stops, storage billing continues) and later Started again, with state restored from the committed image.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "wake_on_request": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/compute-and-training/1.-access-strong-compute.md",
   "quote": "Visit the \"Workstations\" page on Control Plane... Under \"Containers\" click the \"Create Container\" button.",
   "note": "Containers are started manually via Control Plane/CLI; no auto-wake-on-inbound-request mechanism is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "auto_stop_idle": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/may-2025.md",
   "quote": "Containers: Container operations responsive to Organisation billing limits - Containers refuse to start and automatically stop without sufficient balance.",
   "note": "Auto-stop is triggered by exhausted billing balance/spending limits, not by inactivity/idle-time; no idle-timeout auto-stop is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "live_resize": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments.md",
   "quote": "gpus is required and must be an integer between 1 and 72 inclusive, describing the number of GPUs you want to use for your experiment.",
   "note": "Resource sizing (GPUs/shape) is fixed at container/experiment launch; no documented API to change CPU/RAM/GPU of a running machine without recreating it.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "agent_harnesses": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — a GPU training/FinOps platform, no coding-agent (Claude Code/Codex/OpenCode) templates or preinstalls documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "own_agent_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/isc-commands-cli.md",
   "quote": "Users can access the ISC API from within their development container which includes the following commands.",
   "note": "The only first-party APIs are the isc CLI (train/cancel/container restart|stop) and beta experiment-creation endpoints; no browser/computer-use/research task-agent API is offered.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "mcp_server": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/llms.txt",
   "quote": "For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt.",
   "note": "No MCP server is mentioned anywhere in the full documentation index or changelog; no such product is offered.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "lang_python": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments.md",
   "quote": "source /opt/venv/bin/activate && cd /root/isc-demos/fashion_mnist/ && torchrun --nnodes=$NNODES ... train.py",
   "note": "Platform is built around Python/PyTorch training workflows with a preconfigured venv.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "public_ipv4": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/compute-and-training/2.-hello-world-training-example.md",
   "quote": "obtain your running container SSH port by visiting Workstations > Containers... ssh -p <port> root@<host>",
   "note": "Containers are reached via a host + per-container SSH port (bastion/NAT-style), not a dedicated public IPv4 per machine.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "inbound_https": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/compute-and-training/2.-hello-world-training-example.md",
   "quote": "ssh -L <port>:localhost:<port> -p <port> root@<host>",
   "note": "Services like Tensorboard are reached by SSH port-forwarding, not a provider-issued public HTTPS URL to exposed ports.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "ingress_rules": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/compute-and-training/1.-access-strong-compute.md",
   "quote": "Upload your SSH public key... Add SSH Key.",
   "note": "Access control is SSH public-key auth only; no documented IP allowlists, security groups, or private/auth-URL ingress controls.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "egress_http_rules": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "Data transfer (cluster egress, cluster to cloud bucket, and cloud bucket to cluster)",
   "note": "Only coarse per-GB egress billing is documented; no method/path-level HTTP egress rule feature is offered.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "guest_firewall": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "Just like ordinary containers, Strong Compute containers represent running instances of images.",
   "note": "derived: isolation is shared-kernel container, not a full VM/microVM, so guest-side nftables/iptables control of the isolation boundary does not apply the same way.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "static_egress_ip": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments.md",
   "quote": "When an experiment is launched with compute_mode=\"burst\" the ISC will search for a cluster on a commercial cloud with a suitable shape.",
   "note": "Burst/interruptible workloads are provisioned dynamically across many different commercial clouds/regions, so no fixed outbound IP is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "windows": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — training containers/clusters run Linux only; Windows/MacOS mentions in docs refer only to the user's local client OS for SSH/VPN, not to sandbox machines.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "macos": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — Linux-only GPU training containers/clusters.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "arm64": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/june-2026.md",
   "quote": "Agent Smith Lite: A downloadable program that can be installed on cloud instances to track real-time metrics... currently works for target machines running x86 Ubuntu 22.04+",
   "note": "The only architecture referenced anywhere in the docs is x86; no ARM/aarch64 machine option is documented.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "self_host": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://strongcompute.com/compute",
   "quote": "Strong Compute gives AI teams one place to See Costs, Cap Costs, Cut Costs for GPU.",
   "note": "Strong Compute is a hosted SaaS (FinOps dashboard) plus its own managed ISC clusters; no self-hosted deployment of the platform itself is offered (Agent Smith Lite is only a small open-source metrics collector, not the platform).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "byoc": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/byo-cloud-api-keys.md",
   "quote": "In order to track cloud compute costs, organisation admins are able to add API keys for a variety of clouds under the API Keys tab.",
   "note": "\"BYO Cloud API Keys\" connects Strong Compute's SaaS (read-mostly) to the customer's existing cloud accounts for cost visibility/control; it is not the Strong Compute product deployed as a managed service running inside the customer's own cloud account.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "open_source": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/june-2026.md",
   "quote": "Agent Smith Lite: ... Can also be built from source.",
   "note": "Only the small Agent Smith Lite metrics collector (github.com/StrongResearch/agent-smith-lite-rs) is open source; the core ISC/FinOps platform is closed-source SaaS.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "sso": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/change-log/july-2026.md",
   "quote": "SSO: Can now sign in with Google and GitHub",
   "note": "This is OAuth/OIDC social sign-in via Google and GitHub, labelled \"SSO\" by the vendor; not confirmed to be enterprise SAML/OIDC org-wide federation.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "eu_data_residency": {
   "value": true,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/gdpr/strong-compute-data-processing-agreement-dpa.md",
   "quote": "Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud hosting and storage us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, ap-southeast-2, ap-northeast-1, eu-west-1, eu-north-1",
   "note": "Sub-processor table lists EU sub-processor regions (AWS eu-west-1/eu-north-1, Azure Italy North) and burst compute can target commercial-cloud EU shapes/regions; not a dedicated EU-only guarantee but EU-region hosting is available.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "max_session_h": {
   "value": "none",
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "Users are billed for time that the container is Running and for cloud storage of container data.",
   "note": "No maximum session-length limit is documented; containers/cluster experiments run until stopped by the user, interrupted, or the org's billing balance is exhausted (burst experiments are capped at 48 GPUs, not by time).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "docker_inside": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/workstations-images-and-containers.md",
   "quote": "Users can create containers based on public images available out-of-the-box in Strong Compute, or can import private images from Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, or custom/private container registries.",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — Strong Compute containers are themselves the shared-kernel unit run from an OCI image on a multi-tenant training cluster/burst workstation; nothing in the docs (containers/images page, CLI reference, or changelogs) documents a privileged mode or Docker/OCI runtime available for running nested containers inside a user's container, and nested_virt is already confirmed false for the same isolation model.",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "lang_node": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/launching-experiments.md",
   "quote": "source /opt/venv/bin/activate && cd /root/isc-demos/fashion_mnist/ && torchrun --nnodes=$NNODES --nproc-per-node=$N_PROC --master_addr=$MASTER_ADDR --master_port=$MASTER_PORT train.py",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — the platform's out-of-the-box public images and quickstart/demo tooling are all Python/PyTorch (a preconfigured /opt/venv), aimed at ML training experiments; no default Node.js runtime, base image, or first-party SDK for Node is documented anywhere in the docs index or changelogs (a user could import their own Node.js Docker image, but that is not an out-of-the-box runtime).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "egress_allowlist": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "Data transfer (cluster egress, cluster to cloud bucket, and cloud bucket to cluster)",
   "note": "not offered: outside the product's scope — the only documented outbound-traffic concept is coarse per-GB egress billing (cluster egress, bucket transfer); no allow/deny lists, no-internet mode, or security-group-style egress rules are mentioned anywhere in the full docs index, billing page, or changelogs (egress_http_rules is already confirmed false for the same reason).",
   "checked": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "usage_api": {
   "value": false,
   "source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
   "quote": "The Billing page on Control Plane shows your balance and the costs of your experiments... Aggregate charges for your Organisation are show on the Billing History tab by product with Daily, Monthly, and Total usage.",
   "note": "granularity: account-only; cost: yes; Only dashboard access; ISC CLI (isc ping, isc experiments, isc train, isc cancel, isc container restart, isc container stop) provides no usage/billing query. No REST API endpoint for usage documented anywhere in the docs index, llms.txt, or available API references.",
   "confidence": "high",
   "checked": "2026-10-01"
  }
 },
 "locations": [
  {
   "country": "AU",
   "state": null,
   "city": "Sydney",
   "provider_region": "sydney",
   "self_serve": true,
   "choosable": true
  }
 ],
 "locations_source": "https://docs.strongcompute.com/basic-concepts/billing.md",
 "locations_quote": "Sydney cluster: container runtime $1/h (CPU, shared resources), $1.25 per attached GPU-hour, cycle $1 per cycle, interruptible $1.25/GPU-h + $18 init per experiment",
 "locations_checked": "2026-10-01"
}