Blaxel vs Runtime
Blaxel bills memory only, at $0.0414 per GiB-hour. Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Blaxel runs microVMs and has no session limit. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Blaxel
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month. Images $0.045 per GB per month.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Blaxel: Included
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Blaxel: $0.0414
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Blaxel: Snapshots $0.20 per GB per month. Volumes $0.12 per GB per month. Images $0.045 per GB per month.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Blaxel: Credit of up to $200
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Blaxel: Pay as you go
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Blaxel: Memory only
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Blaxel: No limit
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Blaxel: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- Blaxel:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- Blaxel:
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- Blaxel: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Blaxel: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, MCP, Claude Code, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Blaxel: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- Blaxel: Bring-your-own-metal in your VPC, on request
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Blaxel
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.083
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.166
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Blaxel: $0.331
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Blaxel fits when
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.
- You need SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001.
Runtime fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
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