AWS Lambda MicroVMs vs Upstash Box
AWS Lambda MicroVMs costs $0.0997 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. AWS Lambda MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Upstash Box runs containers.
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AWS Lambda MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 8 hours
Upstash Box
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Upstash Box
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
AWS Lambda MicroVMsaws
Upstash Boxupstash
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0997
- Upstash Box: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.0132
- Upstash Box: Included
- Storage
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Snapshot storage $0.08 per GB-month (US East). Snapshot reads and writes are billed per GB.
- Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
- Free tier
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
- Paid plan from
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Pay as you go
- Billing
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Per second
- Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 8 hours
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Idle stop
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Platform
- Isolation
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- Upstash Box: Container
- GPU
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- Snapshots
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Upstash Box:
- Pause and resume
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs:
- Upstash Box:
Developer
- SDKs
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Python, JavaScript
- Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
Trust
- License
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
- BYOC
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: Not listed
- Upstash Box: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
AWS Lambda MicroVMs
Upstash Box
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.126
- Upstash Box: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.252
- Upstash Box: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- AWS Lambda MicroVMs: $0.504
- Upstash Box: $0.400
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.
Upstash Box fits when
- You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 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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