Celesto Cloud vs Sandock

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Sandock runs containers and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Sandock

Isolation
Container
Free tier
None
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Sandock
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Sandock: None
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Sandock: $5 / month
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Sandock: Up to 150
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Sandock: Container
SDKs
Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Sandock: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Sandock: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Sandock: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Sandock: Not listed
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Sandock: Not listed
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Sandock: None
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Sandock: $5 / month
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Sandock: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: 24 hours
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sandock: 16 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Sandock: Up to 150

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Sandock: Container
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Sandock: Not listed
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Sandock:

Developer

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

Trust

License
Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
Sandock: Not listed
BYOC
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sandock: Private / VPC deployment on Enterprise

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Sandock
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Sandock: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Sandock: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Sandock: Not listed

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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 the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Sandock fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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