Blaxel vs Containarium Cloud

Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Blaxel

Sandboxes that pause when idle and resume with state.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Credit of up to $200
Max session: No limit

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Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Free tier
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Blaxel

Containarium Cloud

vCPU, per hour: Blaxel: Included; Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Blaxel: $0.0414; Containarium Cloud: Included
Free tier: Blaxel: Credit of up to $200; Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Billing: Blaxel: Memory only; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Blaxel: MicroVM; Containarium Cloud: Container
Integrations: Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP; Containarium Cloud: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Blaxelblaxel.ai/pricing

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/llms.txtcontainarium.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Blaxel: Included; Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Blaxel: $0.0414; Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage: Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier: Blaxel: Credit of up to $200; Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from: Blaxel: Pay as you go; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing: Blaxel: Memory only; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Blaxel: No limit; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: Blaxel: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Blaxel: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Blaxel: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Blaxel: MicroVM; Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU: Blaxel: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots: Blaxel:; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume: Blaxel:; Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations: Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP; Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

License: Blaxel: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC: Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC; Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Blaxel

Containarium Cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Blaxel: $0.083; Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Blaxel: $0.166; Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Blaxel: $0.331; Containarium Cloud: $0.080

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Blaxel fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

Containarium Cloud fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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