Declaw vs Freestyle VMs
Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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Declaw
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 sandbox credit, one time
- Max session
- 72 hours
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Declaw
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Declaw: $0.0504
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Declaw: $0.0162
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Declaw: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Largest sandbox
- Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Declaw: Up to 500
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
- Isolation
- Declaw: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- SDKs
- Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Declawdocs
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Declaw: $0.0504
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Declaw: $0.0162
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Declaw: Pay as you go
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Declaw: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Declaw: 72 hours
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Declaw: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Declaw: Up to 500
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- Declaw: Firecracker microVM
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- Declaw: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Declaw:
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- Declaw:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Declaw: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Declaw: Deploy in your VPC. Book a call.
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Declaw
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Declaw: $0.083
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Declaw: $0.166
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Declaw: $0.331
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Declaw fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use LangChain or MCP.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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