Buddy Sandboxes vs MIOSA

Buddy Sandboxes costs $0.0144 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.0496 per vCPU-hour. Buddy Sandboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

Updated

Buddy Sandboxes

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

MIOSA

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

What is different

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

Buddy Sandboxes
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
MIOSA: $0.0496
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
MIOSA: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
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
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time
Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
MIOSA: $0.0496
RAM, per GiB-hour
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.0144
MIOSA: Included
Storage
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.00011 per GiB-hour
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
Buddy Sandboxes: $1 of usage credit every month
MIOSA: $1 of usage every month
Paid plan from
Buddy Sandboxes: $29 / month
MIOSA: $20 / month
Billing
Buddy Sandboxes: Per second
MIOSA: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Buddy Sandboxes: No limit
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Buddy Sandboxes: 12 vCPU · 24 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Buddy Sandboxes: Full VM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: No
Snapshots
Buddy Sandboxes:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
Buddy Sandboxes:
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
Buddy Sandboxes: TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Buddy Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code
MIOSA: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Buddy Sandboxes: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Buddy 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

Buddy Sandboxes
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.043
MIOSA: $0.050
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.086
MIOSA: $0.099
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Buddy Sandboxes: $0.173
MIOSA: $0.198

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Buddy Sandboxes fits when

  • A session must run longer than 24 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.086 against $0.099 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.

MIOSA fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 12 vCPU · 24 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related