Apify AI Code Sandbox vs Celesto Cloud

Apify AI Code Sandbox bills memory only, at $0.20 per GiB-hour. Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Apify AI Code Sandbox runs containers and has no session limit. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.

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Apify AI Code Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$5 of usage every month
Max session
No limit

Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Apify AI Code Sandbox
Celesto Cloud
vCPU, per hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Included
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.20
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Disk in the run is part of the compute price. The workspace backup goes to a key-value store at $1 per 1,000 GB-hours, plus reads and writes. Data transfer out $0.20 per GB
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $5 of usage every month
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $19 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Memory only
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Concurrent sandboxes
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Up to 256
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Isolation
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Container
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Integrations
Apify AI Code Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Included
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.20
Celesto Cloud: Included
Storage
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Disk in the run is part of the compute price. The workspace backup goes to a key-value store at $1 per 1,000 GB-hours, plus reads and writes. Data transfer out $0.20 per GB
Celesto Cloud: Free
Free tier
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $5 of usage every month
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Paid plan from
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $19 / month
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Memory only
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Apify AI Code Sandbox: No limit
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Apify AI Code Sandbox: After 15 minutes
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Up to 256
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Container
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud:
Pause and resume
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Apify AI Code Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code

Trust

License
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Apify AI Code Sandbox: Not listed
Celesto Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Apify AI Code Sandbox
Celesto Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.400
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $0.800
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Apify AI Code Sandbox: $1.600
Celesto Cloud: $0.060

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Apify AI Code Sandbox fits when

  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.

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