Sharing how I've been using InstaBox. Over the past two days, I gave my AI assistant an "external workstation": InstaBox cloud machines. I personally did exactly one thing - clicked a Google authorization once. Creating machines, installing environments, running pipelines, fetching results - it did all of that itself, from the command line. The free tier gives you 5 machines (4 cores, 8GB RAM, 20GB persistent disk each) plus 5 snapshots, with a 30-minute idle auto-pause and auto-wake on the next call.
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1 free cloud machine (4 vCPU / 8 GiB) with 5 snapshots, no usage limit
InstaBox gives AI agents their own persistent Linux cloud machines with Docker, snapshots, public HTTPS ports and pause and resume. Its Free plan includes one 4 vCPU / 8 GiB machine with no usage limit and 5 snapshots, auto-paused after 30 idle minutes.
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- Who qualifies
- Anyone; accounts created before October 20, 2026 keep five free machines until December 1, 2026
- How to claim
- See official page
- Expiry
- See official page
- Released
- Oct 20, 2026 Source ↗
Heads up. Free machines pause after 30 idle minutes; the post's 5-machine figure applies only to pre-October 20 beta accounts
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Added Oct 24, 2026 · Updated Oct 24, 2026, 21:39 UTC
