Blaxel vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
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DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month.
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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