Celesto Cloud vs Dedalus Machines

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Dedalus Machines
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Dedalus Machines: Per second
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Dedalus Machines: Per second

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Dedalus Machines:

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Dedalus Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Dedalus Machines: $0.298

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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 each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the larger free credit: $20 against $5.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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