Containarium Cloud vs CoreWeave Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
CoreWeave Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
CoreWeave Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

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 $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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