generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.synadia.com/cloud/pricing, https://docs.synadia.com/cloud/walkthrough,
  https://www.synadia.com/.well-known/agent-skills/synadia-cloud-onboarding.md, and the trial pages
  for Synadia Platform, Insights and Protect.
name: Synadia Communications sandbox and trial access
description: >-
  Synadia publishes NO sandbox in the payments sense - there is no test mode, no test/live key
  prefix pair, no fixture or trigger tooling, and no time simulation. What it offers instead is a
  permanently free production tier and time-boxed product trials. A developer evaluates against real
  infrastructure with small quotas, not against a mock.
test_mode: false
test_live_key_prefixes: false
test_data_fixtures: false
time_simulation: false
note: >-
  Because there is no test mode, there is no safe place to rehearse a destructive Control Plane call.
  Combined with the absence of any dry-run parameter and the absence of any restore operation (see
  conventions/synadia-communications-conventions.yml), an agent operating this API is doing so
  against live state with no rehearsal surface and no undo.
free_access:
- name: Synadia Cloud Personal tier
  type: free-forever
  price: 0
  signup: https://cloud.synadia.com/
  credit_card_required: false
  signup_methods: [GitHub OAuth, Google OAuth, email and password, SSO]
  limits:
    accounts: 2
    connections: 10
    subscriptions_per_connection: 100
    leaf_nodes: 2
    network_data: 10 GiB
    standard_storage: 5 GiB
    standard_streams: 10
  note: >-
    Real production infrastructure at small scale, not a sandbox. Both the Control Plane API and the
    HTTP Gateway are reachable on this tier.
  human_required: true
  human_required_note: >-
    Synadia's own onboarding Agent Skill states account creation is interactive and requires a human -
    an agent cannot self-provision Synadia Cloud access.
trials:
- name: Synadia Insights
  duration_days: 30
  url: https://www.synadia.com/insights/trial
  credit_card_required: false
  requires: NATS system account credentials
- name: Synadia Protect
  duration_days: 14
  url: https://www.synadia.com/protect/trial
- name: Synadia Platform
  url: https://docs.synadia.com/platform/trial
  repository: https://github.com/synadia-io/platform-trial
  note: Configuration for the Synadia Platform Trial is published as a public repo.
- name: Deploy for Kubernetes
  note: Trial covered by the provider's synadia-deploy-for-kubernetes Agent Skill.
local_alternative:
  name: Self-hosted NATS Server
  note: >-
    The genuine zero-cost local option is running open-source NATS Server, which Synadia documents in
    its own nats-server-quickstart Agent Skill. It gives the full NATS data plane locally, but NOT the
    Control Plane REST API or the HTTP Gateway, both of which are commercial.
  source: https://www.synadia.com/.well-known/agent-skills/nats-server-quickstart.md
credentials:
  data_plane: >-
    A downloaded .creds file containing a JWT and nkey seed, per Synadia's onboarding skill.
  control_plane: Personal Access Token, created in the Synadia Cloud console.