CreateOS Sandbox vs DigitalOcean MicroVMs
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and DigitalOcean MicroVMs costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs Firecracker microVMs.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CreateOS Sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
DigitalOcean MicroVMsdocs
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.022
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.0085
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.039
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.078
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- DigitalOcean MicroVMs: $0.156
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You use Claude Code.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.078 against $0.119 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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