Celesto Cloud vs Cloudflare Sandbox

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Celesto Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Max session
Not listed

Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Cloudflare Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Cloudflare Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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