CreateOS Sandbox vs microsandbox cloud

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.

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CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

microsandbox cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CreateOS Sandbox
microsandbox cloud
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
microsandbox cloud: No
SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
microsandbox cloud: $0.05
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
microsandbox cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
microsandbox cloud: No
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
microsandbox cloud:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
microsandbox cloud: No

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
microsandbox cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
microsandbox cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
microsandbox cloud: $0.082
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
microsandbox cloud: $0.165
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
microsandbox cloud: $0.330

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.165 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

microsandbox cloud fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.

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