Containarium Cloud vs Runtime

Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

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

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

Runtime

Firecracker microVM sandboxes for AI agents, billed on the CPU that code uses.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session: No limit

Visit site Runtime profile

What is different

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

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Containarium Cloud

Runtime

RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Free; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Runtime: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Runtime: Firecracker microVM
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; Runtime: $0.0075
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Free; Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: No limit
Idle stop: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: No
Snapshots: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime:
Pause and resume: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime:

Developer

SDKs: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code; Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0; Runtime: Not listed
BYOC: Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS; Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Containarium Cloud

Runtime

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; Runtime: $0.160

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 need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need ISO 27001.

Runtime fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or LangChain.
You need snapshots.

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