Cloudflare Sandbox vs Runloop
Cloudflare Sandbox costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Cloudflare Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Cloudflare Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- None
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Cloudflare Sandbox
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runloop: Per second
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Cloudflare Sandboxdevelopers
Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.072
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.009
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.000252 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Cloudflare Sandbox: None
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $5 / month
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Cloudflare Sandbox: 4 vCPU · 12 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Cloudflare Sandbox:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Cloudflare Sandbox: TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Cloudflare Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Cloudflare Sandbox
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.090
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.180
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Cloudflare Sandbox: $0.360
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Cloudflare Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.180 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.
Runloop fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want to start without paying.
- You need pause and resume.
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