Brimble Sandboxes vs MIOSA

MIOSA costs $0.0496 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Brimble Sandboxes

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

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 of usage every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
MIOSA
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
MIOSA: Up to 100
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.0496
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Included
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
MIOSA: Disk $0.10 per GiB a month while the machine runs. Paused disk and named snapshots $0.02 per GiB a month
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
MIOSA: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS or Google Cloud account, or your own servers through OpenComputers

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.099
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: $0.198

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

MIOSA fits when

  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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