CoreWeave Sandboxes vs InstaVM
CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and InstaVM costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. InstaVM runs Firecracker microVMs.
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CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
InstaVM
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $50 credit
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CoreWeave Sandboxes
InstaVM
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
- InstaVM: Up to 100
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
InstaVMinstavm
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- InstaVM: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- InstaVM: $0.0162
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- InstaVM: $0.0002 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM: $100 / month
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- InstaVM: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
- InstaVM: Up to 100
Platform
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- InstaVM: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- InstaVM: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- InstaVM:
- Pause and resume
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM:
Developer
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- InstaVM: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- InstaVM: Not listed
Trust
- License
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- InstaVM: Not listed
- BYOC
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
- InstaVM: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes
InstaVM
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- InstaVM: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- InstaVM: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
- InstaVM: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You use Claude Code.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
InstaVM fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
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