CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Fly.io Sprites

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Fly.io Sprites costs $0.0385 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Fly.io Sprites runs microVMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Fly.io Sprites

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 trial credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Fly.io Sprites
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Fly.io Sprites: $0.0385
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Fly.io Sprites: $0.021875
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Fly.io Sprites: $0.000683 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: $30 trial credit
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Fly.io Sprites: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Fly.io Sprites: MicroVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Fly.io Sprites:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Fly.io Sprites: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Fly.io Sprites: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Fly.io Sprites
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Fly.io Sprites: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Fly.io Sprites: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Fly.io Sprites: $0.329

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Fly.io Sprites fits when

  • You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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