Containarium Cloud vs Islo Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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

Islo Sandboxes

Persistent microVM computers for coding agents.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Starting credit, no card required
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Islo Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

Containarium Cloud

Islo Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: $0.02; Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Free tier; Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Islo Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/llms.txtcontainarium.dev

Islo Sandboxesislo.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: $0.02; Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Free tier; Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0; Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Containarium Cloud

Islo Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.020; Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.040; Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Containarium Cloud: $0.080; Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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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 $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need ISO 27001.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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