Declaw vs Runtime

Declaw costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Declaw runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 72 hours. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Declaw

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$100 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
72 hours

Runtime

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Declaw
Runtime
vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only
Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Runtime: No limit
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Runtime: Up to 200
SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Declaw: $0.0504
Runtime: $0.025
RAM, per GiB-hour
Declaw: $0.0162
Runtime: $0.0075
Storage
Declaw: $0.00015264 per GiB-hour
Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
Free tier
Declaw: $100 sandbox credit, one time
Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
Paid plan from
Declaw: Pay as you go
Runtime: Pay as you go
Billing
Declaw: Per second
Runtime: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Declaw: 72 hours
Runtime: No limit
Idle stop
Declaw: Not listed
Runtime: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Declaw: 16 vCPU · 16 GiB
Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Declaw: Up to 500
Runtime: Up to 200

Platform

Isolation
Declaw: Firecracker microVM
Runtime: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Declaw: Not listed
Runtime: No
Snapshots
Declaw:
Runtime:
Pause and resume
Declaw:
Runtime:

Developer

SDKs
Declaw: Python, TypeScript, Go
Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Integrations
Declaw: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Declaw: Not listed
Runtime: Not listed
BYOC
Declaw: Enterprise on-prem in your cloud account or data center. The Declaw team runs it.
Runtime: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Declaw
Runtime
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Declaw: $0.083
Runtime: $0.040
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Declaw: $0.166
Runtime: $0.080
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Declaw: $0.331
Runtime: $0.160

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Declaw fits when

  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Runtime fits when

  • A session must run longer than 72 hours.
  • You use the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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