Brimble Sandboxes vs CreateOS Sandbox

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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