Deno Sandbox vs Runtime
Deno Sandbox costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour and Runtime costs $0.025 per vCPU-hour. Deno Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 30 minutes. Runtime runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Deno Sandbox
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- 30 minutes
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
8 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Deno Sandbox
Runtime
- vCPU, per hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Paid plan from
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Runtime: No limit
- Largest sandbox
- Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
- Runtime: Up to 200
- SDKs
- Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Deno Sandboxdeno
Runtimewithruntime
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.10
- Runtime: $0.025
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Deno Sandbox: $0.025
- Runtime: $0.0075
- Storage
- Deno Sandbox: Volumes $0.20 per GiB-month after plan allowance. Volumes 300 MB to 20 GB.
- Runtime: $0.000119 per GiB-hour after 10 free GiB
- Free tier
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: 100 hours of a 1 GB machine in the first 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Deno Sandbox: $20 / month
- Runtime: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Deno Sandbox: Active CPU time only
- Runtime: Active CPU time only
Limits
- Max session
- Deno Sandbox: 30 minutes
- Runtime: No limit
- Idle stop
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: After 5 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Deno Sandbox: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Runtime: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Deno Sandbox: Up to 20
- Runtime: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Deno Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
- Runtime: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: No
- Snapshots
- Deno Sandbox:
- Runtime:
- Pause and resume
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime:
Developer
- SDKs
- Deno Sandbox: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
- Runtime: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java
- Integrations
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, Claude Code
Trust
- License
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
- BYOC
- Deno Sandbox: Not listed
- Runtime: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Deno Sandbox
Runtime
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.150
- Runtime: $0.040
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.300
- Runtime: $0.080
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Deno Sandbox: $0.600
- Runtime: $0.160
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Deno Sandbox fits when
- You need SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.
Runtime fits when
- A session must run longer than 30 minutes.
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK, the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or Claude Code.
- You want the lower list price: $0.080 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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