CoreWeave Sandboxes vs tama

CoreWeave Sandboxes costs $0.128 per vCPU-hour and tama costs $0.0117 per vCPU-hour. CoreWeave Sandboxes runs microVMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 720 hours. tama runs full VMs and offers GPUs.

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CoreWeave Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
720 hours

tama

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CoreWeave Sandboxes
tama
vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
tama: $0.0055
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Isolation
CoreWeave Sandboxes: MicroVM
tama: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.128
tama: $0.0117
RAM, per GiB-hour
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.0212
tama: $0.0055
Storage
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Snapshots and volumes billed separately
tama: No charge for snapshots or stopped machines
Free tier
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Paid plan from
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Billing
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Per second
tama: Per second

Limits

Max session
CoreWeave Sandboxes: 720 hours
tama: Not listed
Idle stop
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
tama: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Not listed
tama: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CoreWeave Sandboxes: Up to 5,000
tama: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CoreWeave Sandboxes
tama
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.170
tama: $0.023
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.341
tama: $0.045
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CoreWeave Sandboxes: $0.682
tama: $0.091

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CoreWeave Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

tama fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.045 against $0.341 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.

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