AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Buddy Sandboxes
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Buddy Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $1 of usage credit every month
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Buddy Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Buddy Sandboxesbuddy
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot write $0.0038 per GB. Snapshot read $0.00155 per GB.
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Buddy Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Buddy Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Buddy Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
Buddy Sandboxes fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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