Containarium Cloud vs Oblien Workspace

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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 want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.092 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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