Containarium Cloud vs Freestyle VMs

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Free tier
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

Freestyle VMs

Full Linux virtual machines for AI agents.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free plan, $0 forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Freestyle VMs profile

What is different

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

Field

Containarium Cloud

Freestyle VMs

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: $0.02; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Free tier; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/llms.txtcontainarium.dev

Freestyle VMsfreestyle.sh/pricingfreestyle.sh

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: $0.02; Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Free tier; Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Freestyle VMs: Per second

Limits

Max session: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Idle stop: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Up to 400

Platform

Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Freestyle VMs: Full VM
GPU: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Snapshots: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs:
Pause and resume: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs:

Developer

SDKs: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP; Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK

Trust

License: Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0; Freestyle VMs: Not listed
BYOC: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Freestyle VMs: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Containarium Cloud

Freestyle VMs

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.020; Freestyle VMs: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.040; Freestyle VMs: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.080; Freestyle VMs: $0.264

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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 $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need ISO 27001.

Freestyle VMs fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

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