---
title: "Smol Machines"
description: "Smol Machines capability reference generated from the Wildflower Computer SDK contract, including create fields and non-secret connection context."
canonical: "https://wildflower.computer/docs/reference/providers/smol/"
openapi_version: "0.8.0"
source_revision: "788b7325a454b8b753a7d614247d5694bad5c967"
---

# Smol Machines

This reference is generated from the same provider capability model used by every Wildflower SDK. It describes the portable create surface and the non-secret connection context kept separate from provider credentials.

- **Contract value:** **`smol`**
- **Create input:** **image and timeout**
- **Connection fields:** **0**

## Create options

The generated create input exposes these provider-specific fields:

- `image`
- `timeout`

## Runtime behavior

These capability facts come from the same generator-owned model used by the provider catalog and SDK documentation.

- **Image selection:** **container**
- **Timeout:** **seconds**
- **Output streams:** **separate**
- **Working directory:** **Supported**
- **Environment variables:** **Supported**
- **Persistent resume:** **Supported**
- **Explicit stop:** **Supported**
- **Snapshots / restore:** **Not supported**
- **Delete:** **Supported**

Granularity: 1 second.

## Connection context

This adapter needs no additional non-secret connection fields. Its provider credential is still connected separately or supplied as an inline override.

> **Credentials never enter the create body**
>
> Connect the provider once for the project, or send a typed inline credential override. Wildflower keeps credentials in authentication headers and never serializes them into sandbox JSON.

## Usage, cost, and latency evidence

- **Billing signal:** **per machine metered usage and cost**
- **Wildflower integration:** **provider signal not integrated**
- **Provider granularity:** **machine**
- **Expected lag:** **provider-defined**
- **Provider-reported cost:** **Unavailable**
- **Live credential proof:** **Not verified**

> **Smol Machines provider cost is not available**
>
> Smol documents per-machine metered cost, but Wildflower has not integrated and live-verified that signal; comparable public unit rates are not published.
>
> [Review the official provider signal source](https://smolmachines.com/docs/cloud-api). A normalized list-price estimate remains separate from provider reporting and invoice reconciliation.

## Continue

- [Connect a project provider profile](https://wildflower.computer/docs/provider-profiles/)
- [Review cost fidelity and benchmark rules](https://wildflower.computer/docs/provider-observability/)
- [Browse generated operations and models](https://wildflower.computer/docs/reference/)