Cloudflare Sandbox vs Containarium Cloud

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Cloudflare Sandbox
Containarium Cloud
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Containarium Cloud: Included
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Containarium Cloud: Container

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
Containarium Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
Containarium Cloud: $0.080

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Cloudflare Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
  • You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.

Containarium Cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.

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