Celesto Cloud vs Freestyle VMs

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Freestyle VMs

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Freestyle VMs
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Freestyle VMs: Per second
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Freestyle VMs:

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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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.

Freestyle VMs fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use the Claude Agent SDK.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

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