Cloudflare Sandbox vs MIOSA

Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and MIOSA costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. MIOSA runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Cloudflare Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

MIOSA

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$10 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Cloudflare Sandbox
MIOSA
vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
MIOSA: MCP

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
MIOSA: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
MIOSA: $0.01458
Storage
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
MIOSA: $0.0006147 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Cloudflare Sandbox: None
MIOSA: $10 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
MIOSA: $500 / month
Billing
Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
MIOSA: Per second

Limits

Max session
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: 24 hours
Idle stop
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
MIOSA: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: Up to 250

Platform

Isolation
Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
MIOSA: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
Snapshots
Cloudflare Sandbox:
MIOSA:
Pause and resume
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA:

Developer

SDKs
Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
MIOSA: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Cloudflare Sandbox: Claude Code, OpenAI Agents SDK
MIOSA: MCP

Trust

License
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: Not listed
BYOC
Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
MIOSA: Your own AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Cloudflare Sandbox
MIOSA
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
MIOSA: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
MIOSA: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
MIOSA: $0.298

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Which 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.

MIOSA fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.180 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You need pause and resume.

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