CoreWeave Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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