Celesto Cloud vs Sendblue Sandboxes

Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour and Sendblue Sandboxes costs $0.165 per vCPU-hour. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs. Sendblue Sandboxes runs containers.

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Celesto Cloud

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

Sendblue Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$100 free compute, once per phone number
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Celesto Cloud
Sendblue Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5
Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
RAM, per GiB-hour
Celesto Cloud: Included
Sendblue Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Celesto Cloud: Free
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
Sendblue Sandboxes: $100 free compute, once per phone number
Paid plan from
Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Sendblue Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
Sendblue Sandboxes: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Sendblue Sandboxes: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
Sendblue Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Celesto Cloud:
Sendblue Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Celesto Cloud:
Sendblue Sandboxes: No

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Celesto Cloud
Sendblue Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.015
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.165
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.030
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.330
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Sendblue Sandboxes: $0.660

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Celesto Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
  • You use MCP, the OpenAI Agents SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.330 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Sendblue Sandboxes fits when

  • You want the larger free credit: $100 against $5.

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