CreateOS Sandbox vs SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes bills memory only, at $0.04572 per GiB-hour. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit. SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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CreateOS Sandbox

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

SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
None
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

CreateOS Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096
Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.04572
Storage
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Sandbox snapshots $0.10 per GiB-month of deduplicated bytes, $0.05 per GiB-month in cold storage
Free tier
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: None
Paid plan from
CreateOS Sandbox: Pay as you go
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Memory only

Limits

Max session
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Up to 4,096

Platform

Isolation
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
CreateOS Sandbox: No
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
CreateOS Sandbox:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
CreateOS Sandbox:
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
Integrations
CreateOS Sandbox: Claude Code
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

CreateOS Sandbox
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.091
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.183
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237
SF Compute Autoresearch Sandboxes: $0.366

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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 $0.183 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • 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 one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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