Containarium Cloud vs tama

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
tama
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
tama: $0.0055
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
tama: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
tama: $0.0055
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
tama: Full VM
GPU
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama:
Snapshots
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama:
Pause and resume
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama:

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
tama: Not listed

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
tama: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
tama: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
tama: $0.091

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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 $0.045 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

tama fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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