AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Sandbox0
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Sandbox0
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Sandbox0: Free
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Sandbox0: No limit
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Sandbox0sandbox0
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Sandbox0: Included
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Sandbox0: $0.015
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Sandbox0: Free
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Sandbox0: Memory only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Sandbox0: No limit
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Sandbox0: gVisor
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Sandbox0:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Sandbox0:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Sandbox0: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Sandbox0
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Sandbox0: $0.030
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Sandbox0: $0.060
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Sandbox0: $0.120
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.
Sandbox0 fits when
- A session must run longer than 8 hours.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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