CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Oblien Workspace

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Oblien Workspace costs $0.03 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Oblien Workspace runs Firecracker microVMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Oblien Workspace

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free tier, no credit card
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Oblien Workspace
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Oblien Workspace: No
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Oblien Workspace: $0.03
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Oblien Workspace: $0.008
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Oblien Workspace: $0.05 per GiB-month retained, also when stopped
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Free tier, no credit card
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Pay as you go
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Oblien Workspace: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: 12 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Oblien Workspace: Firecracker microVM
GPU
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Oblien Workspace: No
Snapshots
CoreWeave Sandboxes:
Oblien Workspace:
Pause and resume
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace:

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Oblien Workspace: JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: MCP

Trust

License
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Oblien Workspace: Not listed
BYOC
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
Oblien Workspace: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Oblien Workspace
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Oblien Workspace: $0.046
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Oblien Workspace: $0.092
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Oblien Workspace: $0.184

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

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

Oblien Workspace fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.092 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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