Celesto Cloud vs Runtime

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Runtime: Up to 200
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Runtime: No limit
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Runtime: $0.160

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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 want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.080 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Runtime fits when

  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
  • 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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