Containarium Cloud vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

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Containarium Cloud

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Free; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/pricingcontainarium.dev

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: Containarium Cloud: Included; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: Containarium Cloud: Free; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: Containarium Cloud: $20 / month; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Containarium Cloud: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: Containarium Cloud: Container; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: Containarium Cloud: MCP, Claude Code; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: Containarium Cloud: Sales-led, on GCP or AWS; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Containarium Cloud

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Containarium Cloud: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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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.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

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