AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Runtime
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
Updated
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Runtime: $0.0075
- 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.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Runtime: $0.0075
- 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.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
More comparisons
Agent Sandbox vs AWS Lambda MicroVMs- Agent Sandbox vs Runtime
Agent37 Cloud vs AWS Lambda MicroVMs- Agent37 Cloud vs Runtime
AgentBay vs AWS Lambda MicroVMs- AgentBay vs Runtime
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Runtime