Azure Container Apps Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes costs $0.0864 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Azure Container Apps Sandboxes runs microVMs. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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Azure Container Apps Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Pause and resume
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0864
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.0108
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Storage charge coming soon
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Per second
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: MicroVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.108
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.216
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: $0.432
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Azure Container Apps Sandboxes fits when

  • You need pause and resume.

microsandbox cloud 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 $0.216 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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