Brimble Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud

microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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Brimble Sandboxes

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

microsandbox cloud

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

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Brimble Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
Brimble Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
microsandbox cloud: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: By evaluation, contact us

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You need pause and resume.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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