CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Railway Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Railway Sandboxes costs $0.069444 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Railway Sandboxes runs full VMs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

Railway Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 trial credit for 30 days
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
Railway Sandboxes: Full VM
SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
Railway Sandboxes: $0.069444
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 trial credit for 30 days
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: $5 / month
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
Railway Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: After 30 minutes
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
Railway Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Railway Sandboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
Railway Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
Railway Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
Railway Sandboxes: $0.208
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
Railway Sandboxes: $0.417
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
Railway Sandboxes: $0.833

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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 want the lower list price: $0.341 against $0.417 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Railway Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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