Buddy Sandboxes vs exe.dev

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. exe.dev runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Buddy Sandboxes

Persistent Linux VMs that AI agents create and control through an API, SDK, CLI or MCP.

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

Visit site Buddy Sandboxes profile

exe.dev

Disposable VMs for AI agents, billed by the second.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session: Not listed

Visit site exe.dev profile

What is different

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

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Buddy Sandboxes

exe.dev

vCPU, per hour: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144; exe.dev: Included
Storage: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour; exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier: Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month; exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from: Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month; exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing: Buddy Sandboxes: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox: Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB; exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Integrations: Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code; exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Buddy Sandboxesbuddy.works/docs/basics/billing-and-usage/gbminbuddy.works

exe.devexe.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144; exe.dev: Included
Storage: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour; exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier: Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month; exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from: Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month; exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing: Buddy Sandboxes: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Buddy Sandboxes: No limit; exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop: Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB; exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM; exe.dev: Full VM
GPU: Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots: Buddy Sandboxes:; exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume: Buddy Sandboxes:; exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript; exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations: Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code; exe.dev: Claude Code, MCP

Trust

License: Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC: Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Buddy Sandboxes

exe.dev

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043; exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086; exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173; exe.dev: $0.210

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.105 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.
You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

exe.dev fits when

You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need a sandbox larger than 12 vCPU · 24 GiB.
You need HIPAA.

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