Celesto Cloud vs Railway Sandboxes

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Railway Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

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

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