CoreWeave Sandboxes vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

Updated Oct 23, 2026

CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolated environments for running untrusted code.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 720 hours

Visit site CoreWeave Sandboxes profile

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolated microVMs for AI agents that fork from a saved snapshot, part of SF Compute Autoresearch.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: None
Max session: Not listed

Visit site SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

CoreWeave Sandboxes

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

vCPU, per hour: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Billing: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Concurrent sandboxes: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Integrations: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

CoreWeave Sandboxescoreweave.com/forge-pricing/inference-agentscoreweave.com

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxesautoresearch.sfcompute.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session: CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 2,000; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation: CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU: CoreWeave Sandboxes:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots: CoreWeave Sandboxes:; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Claude Code; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC: CoreWeave Sandboxes: Your CKS clusters. CoreWeave runs the gateway.; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

CoreWeave Sandboxes

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682; SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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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.

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes fits when

You use MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.183 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need pause and resume.
You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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