Brimble Sandboxes vs Oblien Workspace

Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours. Oblien Workspace 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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Brimble Sandboxes
Oblien Workspace
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Oblien Workspace: No limit
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Oblien Workspace: No limit
Idle stop
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Brimble Sandboxes
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use Claude Code.

Oblien Workspace 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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