New usage-based billing means you pay only for what you run, plus Object Storage, per-network bandwidth plans, threat intel feeds, and a refreshed dashboard.
Release NotesBy Samuel Malkasian | FounderJune 16, 20265 min read
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Samuel Malkasian | Founder
Samuel Malkasian is the founder and lead cloud architect at Carpathian, where he designed the platform's core architecture along with a range of client enterprise systems and open-source tools for AI workflows and integration. He serves as a Cyber Warfare Officer in the U.S. Army and has a background in machine learning, data science, and LLM architecture. He is currently focused on building AI infrastructure that is secure, efficient, and sustainable.
This release is one of our biggest this year with a much cleaner dashboard, better usability, LOTS of bug fixes, and overall security improvements. We also rebuilt how billing works from the ground up so adding resources to your organization is much easier, launched Carpathian Object Storage, moved bandwidth to a smarter per-network model, and opened up our threat intelligence feeds to everyone. Here is everything that is new.
Billing
We sunset the marketplace and rebuilt billing around one simple idea: pay for what you run, nothing more.
No more buying allocations up front. Create what you need, and pay for what you actually run, prorated to the day, on one clean monthly invoice. Spin something up for a week and you pay for a week.
Prices that go down as we grow. Pricing now lives in a live catalog. As scale brings our costs down, the savings flow straight to every customer automatically.
Credits apply first. Any credits on your account are used before your card is ever charged.
See your bill clearly. The billing page now breaks down every service by resource and configuration, shows networking costs per network, puts your spend cap front and center.
Your payment method. The billing page now displays your saved card with an easy update option. None of your payment data (CC info) is stored on Carpathian's servers - we still use Stripe to handle billing.
A few important notes on payments:
If your organization has no card on file yet, the dashboard and billing page will prompt you to add one. Creating resources is paused until billing is set up.
Adding a card now verifies the security code and postal code. A card that fails these checks is declined. If the cardholder name does not match your account, we will show you a heads-up (but the card still works).
If a payment fails, we warn you right away and again daily by email. Services are suspended after a grace period, and resources are permanently removed 15 days after the first failed charge. Pay at any point and your account is restored automatically. Our Terms of Service have been updated to reflect this.
Introducing Carpathian Object Storage
Carpathian Object Storage (COS) is here. Create buckets and upload, organize, share, and download files right from the dashboard. Objects can be private or public, with shareable expiring links and per-object public URLs.
Smarter Bandwidth, Now Per Network
We moved bandwidth plans from per-server to per-network, which is simpler and almost always cheaper.
Each network has its own speed and data cap, and you are billed once per network no matter how many servers run on it.
Choose a network's bandwidth plan when you create it, and change it anytime on the Networking page. Changes take effect immediately and are prorated, so the new rate starts the moment you switch.
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New servers join a network you pick during provisioning and use that network's plan. No network yet? We create a default one for you on the included base plan.
Threat Intelligence (Beta)
The Firewall page has a new Threat Intel tab. Download Carpathian's curated threat feeds — flagged IPs, common attack paths, and detection signatures — as CSV files to plug straight into your own firewall, IDS, or WAF.
A More Flexible AI API
Paste almost any URL and it just works. The AI API is now far more forgiving about base URLs. The bare host, a /v1 base, or the full chat-completions URL pasted straight into your client all route correctly to the model behind your key.
New models endpoint. We added GET /ai/v1/models so OpenAI-compatible clients (Open WebUI, the official SDKs, and more) can verify the connection and list the model your key is bound to.
Dashboard Improvements
Know the cost before you commit. Create buttons (provision, resize, buckets, Quasar, AI instances) now explain billing requirements up front instead of failing after you submit. Creating an AI instance or storage bucket shows the estimated cost before you confirm, just like server provisioning already did.
A better provision wizard. Pick custom CPU, RAM, and storage with live prorated pricing as you adjust, and choose which network your server joins.
Resize on the fly. You can now resize a running server's CPU, RAM, and disk directly, with prorated pricing.
A tidier sidebar. We reorganized the dashboard sidebar so items are grouped by configuration and role.
Security
Choose how long to trust your browser. When completing two-factor sign-in, you can now pick whether to trust your browser for 7 days or 60 days.
Reliability & Fixes
More reliable provisioning. We fixed a problem that could cause a new server to fail at the very end of setup even though it had already been created. New servers now finish provisioning reliably.
Redeploys. Redeploying a previous deployment from the dashboard could sometimes fail to start. Redeploys now run reliably.
Cleaner GitHub Actions deploys. We fixed an issue where deployments triggered from GitHub Actions could fail when a commit message contained quotes or other special characters.
Thanks for building with and helping us test Carpathian. As always, we would love to hear your feedback.
