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docs: tier economics — hibernation is canary-tested/nearly live, not live (#665)
Correct the over-claim: the activator is merged with per-host opt-in and the prod bucket exists, but the fleet-wide flip hasn't happened. State the transition cost honestly (resident slot ~€9.70/y trims margins until then).
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| | Box (whole cloud plane) | ~€35/month | Hetzner + fixed services | |
| | Resident-process slot | ~€0.81/month | box ÷ 40-instance capacity | |
| -**Hibernation is live** (the activator, #550 Part 4): an idle space is an S3 |
| -prefix, not a process — its marginal cost while asleep is storage alone. |
| -A space only pays the slot rate for the fraction of time it's awake. |
| -One deliberate exception: **a space with a bot sidecar never sleeps** (the |
| -sidecar's WebSocket holds it awake) — one more reason AI usage carries its own |
| -meter instead of hiding in a flat price. |
| +**Hibernation is canary-tested and very nearly live** (the activator, #550 |
| +Part 4: merged, per-host opt-in, production bucket provisioned). Once a space |
| +is flagged, idle means an S3 prefix, not a process — marginal cost while |
| +asleep is storage alone, and the slot rate applies only to the fraction of |
| +time it's awake. The estimates below model that steady state. **Until the |
| +fleet-wide flip completes, a resident space carries the full slot rate |
| +(~€9.70/year at full box density)** — which puts a resident Family space |
| +slightly underwater and trims every other margin by the same amount; the |
| +transition is short and priced in. One deliberate permanent exception: **a |
| +space with a bot sidecar never sleeps** (the sidecar's WebSocket holds it |
| +awake) — one more reason AI usage carries its own meter instead of hiding in |
| +a flat price. |
| ## The model |