The workspace trial vs a pad

What each is

• The workspace trial runs Linux VMs on the reachpad fleet, driven from the reachpad CLI in your own terminal: 10 workspaces, 5 running at once, no card required, sharing the one-time compute grant. Disk and memory are sealed to object storage, so a paused workspace resumes mid-session, and you can fork or rewind it at retained checkpoints. Keeping a workspace's disk is free during the preview.
• A pad is a dedicated machine with a browser terminal at its own address: multiple always-on workspaces, agents preinstalled (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode), several running side by side. See the browser terminal. Pads are no longer sold as a flat monthly plan; the customers who hold one keep it, and new accounts are billed for active compute instead.

What happens when you leave

A pad stays up: the machine keeps running whether or not anyone watches, which suits always-on work and a team sharing one box. A trial workspace pauses on reachpad pause and resumes exactly where it stopped, memory included; the next run or attach wakes it while compute credits remain. Both finish the run you walked away from.

Moving up

Past the trial grant you are billed for active compute, by the minute, with no monthly minimum; see pricing. Cancelling and invoices are covered in plans, billing and cancelling.