Celesto Cloud vs EQVPS Sandboxes

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Celesto Cloud

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

EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
EQVPS Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
EQVPS Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
EQVPS Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want the larger free credit: $5 against $1.

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