Containarium Cloud vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Containarium Cloud runs containers. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Containarium Cloud

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free tier
Max session
Not listed

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Containarium Cloud
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Isolation
Containarium Cloud: Container
Tensorlake Sandboxes: MicroVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Containarium Cloud: $0.02
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Containarium Cloud: Included
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Containarium Cloud: MCP
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Containarium Cloud: Apache-2.0
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Your AWS, GCP or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Containarium Cloud
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.020
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.040
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Containarium Cloud: $0.080
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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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 $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need ISO 27001.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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