Agent Sandbox vs Freestyle VMs
Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Agent Sandbox runs containers. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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Agent Sandbox
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Max session
- Not listed
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Agent Sandbox
Freestyle VMs
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Agent Sandboxagentsandbox
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Agent Sandbox: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- Agent Sandbox: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Agent Sandbox: Python
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Agent Sandbox
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Agent Sandbox: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Agent Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
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