Cloudflare Sandbox vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
Updated
Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Cloudflare Sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 12 GiB.
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