CoreWeave Sandboxes vs Runtime
CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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CoreWeave Sandboxes
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 720 hours
Runtime
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
- Runtime: Up to 200
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Runtime: No
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave
Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- CoreWeave Sandboxes:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 720 hours.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need pause and resume.
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