CreateOS Sandbox vs Runloop
CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. Runloop runs microVMs.
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CreateOS Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Starting credit of 500 credits
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
CreateOS Sandbox
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos
Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- CreateOS Sandbox: No
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- CreateOS Sandbox:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
CreateOS Sandbox
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
CreateOS Sandbox fits when
- You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need ISO 27001.
Runloop fits when
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need a sandbox larger than 8 vCPU · 8 GiB.
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