AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Smol Machines
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Smol Machines costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Smol Machines runs microVMs.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Smol Machines
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Smol Machines
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- 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.
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Smol Machines: No
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Smol Machinessmolmachines
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Smol Machines: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Smol Machines: $0.0162
- 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.
- Smol Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Smol Machines: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Smol Machines: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Smol Machines: MicroVM
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: No
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Smol Machines: No
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Smol Machines:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Smol Machines: TypeScript, Python, Rust
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Smol Machines: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Smol Machines
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Smol Machines: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Smol Machines: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Smol Machines: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
AWS Lambda MicroVMs fits when
- You need snapshots.
Smol Machines fits when
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.252 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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