Buddy Sandboxes vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Buddy Sandboxes

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Buddy Sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • 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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