CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Dedalus Machines

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Dedalus Machines
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Dedalus Machines: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Dedalus Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Dedalus Machines: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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