Containarium Cloud vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
Updated
Containarium Cloud
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Max session
- Not listed
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Containarium Cloud
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Billing
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
- Idle stop
- Containarium Cloud: After 1440 minutes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Isolation
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Containarium Cloudcontainarium
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Containarium Cloud: $0.02
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Containarium Cloud: Included
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- Containarium Cloud: Free tier
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Containarium Cloud: After 1440 minutes
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Containarium Cloud: Container
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Containarium Cloud: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Containarium Cloud
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.020
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.040
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Containarium Cloud: $0.080
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich 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 or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.078 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need a sandbox larger than 4 vCPU · 8 GiB.
More comparisons
Agent Sandbox vs Containarium Cloud- Agent Sandbox vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Agent37 Cloud vs Containarium Cloud- Agent37 Cloud vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
AgentBay vs Containarium Cloud- AgentBay vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Containarium Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs