Buddy Sandboxes vs Containarium Cloud

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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Buddy Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$1 of usage credit every month
Max session
No limit

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
Containarium Cloud
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Free
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Containarium Cloud: $20 / month
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Free
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
Containarium Cloud: $20 / month
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 2 vCPU · 4 GiB.

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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