They limited the Always Free usage on a completely free account with no card attached. If you switch your account to PAYG, the Always Free instance still maxes at 4vCPUs/24GB of RAM.

Interesting!

That’s actually how I have it set up because they kept running out of capacity in the credit-card-less account and someone on Reddit mentioned that loophole.

But then if it still runs "out of capacity" you will be billed, right? Or you put on the credit card and then set some kind of charge limit as 0 or something?