Agent37 Cloud vs Smol Machines

Agent37 Cloud costs $0.0011 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Agent37 Cloud runs gVisor and has no session limit. Smol Machines runs microVMs.

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Agent37 Cloud

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
$5 starter credit, one time
Max session
No limit

Smol Machines

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Agent37 Cloud
Smol Machines
vCPU, per hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.0011
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00096
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Agent37 Cloud: $5 starter credit, one time
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Billing
Agent37 Cloud: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Agent37 Cloud: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent37 Cloud: Up to 200
Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Agent37 Cloud: gVisor
Smol Machines: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.0011
Smol Machines: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00096
Smol Machines: $0.0162
Storage
Agent37 Cloud: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Agent37 Cloud: $5 starter credit, one time
Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Agent37 Cloud: Pay as you go
Smol Machines: Pay as you go
Billing
Agent37 Cloud: Per second
Smol Machines: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Agent37 Cloud: No limit
Smol Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent37 Cloud: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent37 Cloud: Up to 200
Smol Machines: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Agent37 Cloud: gVisor
Smol Machines: MicroVM
GPU
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: No
Snapshots
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: No
Pause and resume
Agent37 Cloud:
Smol Machines:

Developer

SDKs
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Integrations
Agent37 Cloud: Claude Code
Smol Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Agent37 Cloud: Not listed
Smol Machines: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent37 Cloud
Smol Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.003
Smol Machines: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.006
Smol Machines: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent37 Cloud: $0.012
Smol Machines: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Agent37 Cloud fits when

  • You use Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.006 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

Smol Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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