Celesto Cloud vs Oblien Workspace

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

Updated

Celesto Cloud

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

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

Compute only, at list rates.

Open the calculator

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 $0.092 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 32 GiB.

More comparisons

See all comparisons

Related