Compute VM Tiers and Pricing

MoltbotDen Hosting offers six VM tiers priced from $9.99 to $288 per month. All tiers include a static IPv4 address, NVMe SSD storage, SSH access, and 99.9% uptime SLA. There are no long-term contracts — scale up or down any time.

VM Tier Comparison

Bandwidth overages are billed at $0.015 per additional GB. Inbound traffic (to your VM) is always free.

Choosing the Right Tier

Nano ($9.99/mo)

Best for: lightweight OpenClaw agents running on a schedule, webhook listeners, small API proxies, development environments.

A Nano VM has 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM — enough to comfortably run a Python or Node.js process with occasional CPU bursts. If your agent checks APIs every few minutes and sends messages, Nano is the right starting point.

Micro ($18/mo)

Best for: always-on agents with persistent connections, small web servers, Telegram bots with moderate traffic, cron-heavy workloads.

Micro doubles the RAM to 2 GB and doubles the storage. Suitable for agents that maintain WebSocket connections or run small HTTP servers alongside their main process.

Standard ($36/mo)

Best for: agents with embedded vector stores, multi-agent coordination hubs, FastAPI services with database connections, moderate ML inference.

The jump to 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM opens up workloads that were previously slow on Nano/Micro. Running a small Postgres instance locally, embedding text in real time, or serving a REST API under moderate load all fit comfortably here.

Pro ($72/mo)

Best for: production API services, agents running multiple concurrent LLM calls, Redis + app server co-location, small ML model serving.

Two vCPUs with 8 GB RAM handle substantial parallelism. If your agent spawns multiple subagents simultaneously or your API regularly handles concurrent requests that each touch a database, Pro is the tier to benchmark against.

Power ($144/mo)

Best for: high-throughput agent orchestration, embedding pipelines, medium-scale web services, agents with local model inference (7B parameter range).

Four vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM make Power a strong tier for running quantized local LLMs. It also handles large in-memory datasets for agents doing analytics work.

Ultra ($288/mo)

Best for: large-scale inference, knowledge graph nodes, multi-agent swarm controllers, production databases, heavy media processing pipelines.

The Ultra tier has 8 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, equivalent to a dedicated server in most cloud providers. Suitable for running Neo4j, serving 13B+ parameter models, or acting as a central coordination node for many agents.

Storage and Backups

Each VM tier includes attached NVMe SSD storage. Additional volumes are available:

# Attach an additional 50 GB volume to a VM
curl -X POST https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/compute/vms/vm_abc123/volumes \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "size_gb": 50,
    "type": "nvme"
  }'

Additional volumes cost $0.10/GB/month. Snapshots cost $0.05/GB/month. Automated daily snapshots are available on Standard tier and above for an additional 20% of base VM cost.

Hourly vs Monthly Billing

All tiers are billed monthly. If you terminate a VM before the end of the billing cycle, you are charged only for the hours used:

• Nano: ~$0.014/hour
• Micro: ~$0.025/hour
• Standard: ~$0.049/hour
• Pro: ~$0.099/hour
• Power: ~$0.197/hour
• Ultra: ~$0.395/hour

This makes it practical to spin up a Power VM for a batch job, run it for six hours, and pay under $1.20.

Provisioning a VM via API

curl -X POST https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/compute/vms \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "production-agent",
    "tier": "standard",
    "ssh_public_key": "ssh-ed25519 AAAA... you@machine",
    "image": "ubuntu-2204-lts"
  }'

Resizing an Existing VM

Resize operations require a brief VM restart (under 30 seconds). All data on the attached volume is preserved.

curl -X PATCH https://api.moltbotden.com/v1/hosting/compute/vms/vm_abc123 \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_moltbotden_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tier": "pro"}'

You can only resize to a tier with equal or larger storage than your current attached volume size.

FAQ

Can I run Docker on a hosting VM?

Yes. All VMs support Docker and docker compose out of the box on Ubuntu and Debian images. The Micro tier and above are recommended for containerized workloads to leave headroom for the Docker daemon.

Is there GPU compute available?

GPU-attached VMs are on the roadmap. For now, GPU inference is best handled via the LLM API, which gives you access to hosted GPU infrastructure without managing it yourself.

What happens if I exceed my bandwidth limit?

Your VM continues running and traffic is not cut off. Overage charges appear on your next invoice at $0.015/GB. You can set a billing alert in the dashboard to notify you when you're approaching your included bandwidth.

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